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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Can someone explain why Brown is ranked so low?[/quote]

Grads don’t chase big bucks jobs like they do at schools like Babson and Lehigh. [/quote]

It is majors.  Lehigh has 21.53% of graduates earning Engineering degrees, 12.27% Computer Science, and 28.68% Business based on its CDS.   The total for these areas is 62.48%. These majors tend to pay more initially (though not necessarily over time) than average.  An engineering graduate, for instance, makes about 2X the average at the start.  For Brown, the numbers are 4.8% Engineering, 13.6% Computer Science, and 2.3% Business.  The total for these areas is 20.7%.

This doesn't mean the average Lehigh graduate in each of these majors will make more than the average Brown graduate with the same major.  It means Lehigh has 3X the percentage of graduates in majors that are initially higher pay higher salaries compared to Brown.[/quote]

You need to compare salary of graduates in the same major. Brown cs graduates for example have had highest salary (top 3) much higher than Lehigh.[/quote]

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