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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]https://collegescorecard.ed.gov/
The Obama administration initiated this effort with the Department of Education due to so much bullshit in college business.

Rich people can skew the income data a lot with all kinds of advantages.  
Many of the so-called elite schools have a big portion of these rich people. 
The data is collected via IRS and loan servicing companies for students who had any sort of federal aid - grant, loans, etc.  
Hence it covers most of the low income to middle class real people, and eliminates much of the rich people effect.

It's median income for ten-year-out from the beginning of college. 
Of course no ranking or information is perfect and you shouldn't make a decision based on one factor, but this should be important information unless you are a rich trust fund kid.

Students don't necessarily stay in the area of the school they attended, but you can also consider COL(I don't think it's reflected in the data) and other factors.  
If you are determined to go law school, medical school or grad school right after, then it's probably less important. 
Some of the schools are highly tech oriented and some are very specialized.  
I looked at mostly T100 schools, there could be errors, then please make correctiond.

1 CalTech: $112,166
2 MIT: $111,222
3 UPenn: $103,246
4 CMU: $99,998
5 Stevens IT: $98,159
6 Stanford: $97,798
7 Georgetown: $96,375
8 Princeton: $95,689
9 Lehigh: $95,033 
10 RPI: $93,456
11 Santa Clara: $93,291
12 Duke: $93,115
13 BC: $93,021
14 Dartmouth: $91,627
15 Cornell: $91,176
16 Villanova: $90,613
17 Colorado S.Mines $90,060
18 Columbia: $89,871
19 Worcester: $89,405
20 ND: $88,962
21 Yale: $88,655
22 GIT: $88,196
23 Harvard: $84,918 
24 USC: $83,426
25 WashU: $82,732
26 JH: $83,287
27 George Washington: $80,606
28 UCB: $80,364
29 NJIT: $80,043
30 Northwestern: $80,033
31 Vanderbilt: $79,872
32 Northeastern: $79,786
33 Brown: $78,943
34 CaseW: $78,330 
35 Rice: $77,683
36 UVA: $77,048
37 UChicago: $76,730
38 NYU: $76,040
39 UMich: $75,842
40 BU: $75,642
41 WF: $74,968
42vU San Diego: $74,816
43 UCSD: $74,771
44 Fordham: $74578
45 UCLA: $73744
46 VA Tech: $73159
47 Binghamton: $72980
48 Marquette$72,489
49 Connecticut: $72,460
50 Emory: $72,364

T50 schools didn't make T50 for salary 
UIUC: $71539
Brandeis: $70,327
UCD: $69766
URochester: $68,335
UTAustin: $67,839
Tufts: $67,122
UCSB: $66.491
Wisconsin Madison: $65,213
W&M $6,4723
UF: $64,463
UNC: $61,915
UGeorgia: $59,769
Tulane: $56,999
Ohio: $55,332[/quote]

Engineers tend to make about 2X as much as non-engineers through early to mid-career.  So the mix of majors massively skews the results.  That can be seen in Georgia Tech.   Georgia Tech average is $88K, which is higher than Harvard and higher than Berkeley and significantly higher than UVA, or Michigan  But that can be misleading from a comparative standpoint because of the very high percentage of engineering majors at Georgia Tech.  This explains a large part of overall differences between schools, [b]so you need to compare schools major to major[/b].  Another example is that NC State has about the same income as UNC Chapel Hill.  UNC is often cited as a top public, but it does not have engineering.  But in a major for major comparison, UNC will likely be higher.  There is a Georgetown CEW study that sought to correct for this with the value add adjusted for majors.

Another thing that skews the numbers is the cost of living where graduates tend to settle.  There are massive cost of living differences by geography.  Santa Clara is higher than Duke on the list above.  But it sits right in the middle of one of the most expensive areas in the country.  The cost of living is sky high.  (Duke graduates may also be likely to settle in high cost areas like NYC.).  The cost of living in Santa Clara (Silicon Valley) is 64.2% higher than Austin, TX.  How then do you compare Santa Clara ($93,291) to UT Austin ($67,839)?   (And Dallas and Houston are also much lower cost of living that Silicon Valley.)  A UT graduate living in Austin makine $68K is doing better than a Santa Clara graduate living in Santa Clara making $93K once you adjust for inflation.  This is one of the reasons for a large exodus of businesses and workers from California to Texas.  Workers in California do not believe they will be able to afford a house there despite salaries that look very high.  The same is true for areas like NYC.

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The other thing to consider is that you should not just expect income or ROI along the lines of the college scorecard just by attending the institution.  If you attend Penn and study Sociology, you cannot expect to have the same early career earnings as a Wharton graduate.  Likewise, if you are a Penn Sociology graduate and move to Columbus, OH, you should not expect the same outcome as a Wharton graduate who locates in NYC.  [/quote]

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