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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm not sure that MIT is worth 90K per year. [/quote]

as an engineer, I agree. 90% of engineering jobs top out at a salary that has no foundation in where you went to college. it's like nursing in this way

if you're going into finance or startups etc, it's different. [/quote]

If you find your co-founders like the Cursor guys or the Scale AI guys (or the countless other MIT founders)…then it’s worth it.  Heck, if you dropout after two years, then it’s not even $360k.

Sure…you can claim you can find this at UMD…[b]but there is a reason schools like MIT, Stanford, Harvard et al create nominally more companies than UMD[/b] (and of course, per capita it’s widely more).  They attract a ton of like minded kids trying to find their people to do this.[/quote]

Not doubting you, but can you provide us evidence here?  Let's see the numbers.  [/quote]
DP. Here’s one example:
https://pitchbook.com/news/articles/pitchbook-university-rankings[/quote]

This is directionally quite accurate but doesn’t capture the number of startups of kids that are 20 or 21 because this would also include a 40 year old founder and then look at their undergraduate.  It also doesn’t care if you found a tech startup or a bank or an oil & gas company.

If you look at the chart of most YC founders (so very young company founders) by undergrad school, it’s Stanford, Harvard, Berkeley, MIT, Penn…and down at 14 and 15 you have Michigan and Ga Tech which are the

Stanford - 784
Harvard - 482
Berkeley - 453
MIT - 425
Penn - 265
8 others
Michigan - 131
Ga Tech - 122

It’s interesting that Ga Tech is so much lower since it’s so tech focused and a large school…but it speaks more to the profile of kids that attend.

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