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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]  More importantly, it's doing something very right in terms of education, service, outcome when you look at the retention rate and outcome data.
It's literally #3 after MIT and UChigao on retention rate. Its outcome is on par/better/close to most of the T20/T25 schools.
Just hard facts, but haters/bashers get crazy and obsessed.   [/quote]

Not sure what your source is, but last year's WSJ rankings (the final set WSJ publiished) said NEU ranked #82 among student "Outcomes" - which isn't bad in the grand scheme of things but isn't "T20/T25" and in fact ranks NEU behind UMD/CP and VPI and Pitt and Indiana. [/quote]

I would go with the data from the Department of the Education.
Also what's good about this is that it's for the folks who got any type of federal grant or loan which covers a big portion of the lower class, middle class, and UMC folks, and eliminates the rich folks effect that skews the result.
So if you are lower class, middle class, UMC, then definitely pay attention to this.

https://collegescorecard.ed.gov/
Median, began college 10 years ago

Northeastern 80K
Brown $79K
Vanderbilt 80K
Emory 72K
Rice 78K
UCLA 74K
UCB 80K
Northwestern 80K
UVA 77K
NYU 76K
Michigan 76K

This is already 10 out of 25, and there are a few little better like 83K 84K

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This data is easily skewed with high concentrations of engineering and computer science majors which make good money immediately at age 22. And is sunk by colleges with lots of students going into academia and medicine, which take upwards of 12 years of schooling before you get a nice pay check.[/quote]

I would say medical school is the only excuse after 10 years from the start.  If you think some schools have unusually and constantly 
send high number of graduates to medical schools, take that into a consideration. [/quote]
The point is, what students major in drastically affect this. 
If Majority of students are Engineering/Health sciences/CS, by year 10 they will have high salaries.

If more major in things that don't lead to high income, your results will be skewed lower.  It's not a direct results of "the specific school" but a result of the student's major.

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Of course schools with more serious real majors (i.e. MIT) get more respect and compensation from the industries.   
Easy majors that anybody can do get less respect and receive less.  
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