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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Are these salaries pulled from kids who are working in CS jobs?  I imagine a number of CS kids from the Ivies go into finance or consulting and that could skew the salary data higher for those schools.  [/quote]

It doesn't matter. 
In fact schools like Brown has relatively smaller CS school/department compared to CMU, Cornell, Berkeley, etc., and it sends big percentage to to top IB, Finance with super high salary.

CMU, Cornell, Berkeley, etc. have more kids and they are spread out. They send more kids to traditional IT industries.
Hence Brown number is higher, but you can take that into an account when looking at the data.

It doesn't matter where the CS kids go, it's just shows high demand.

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This info is helpful to show that focusing on many of the recently popular "outcome" rankings that just use university-wide salary data is a terrible idea. You can go to a great school with a smaller CS department and make just as much or more than someone at a place like CMU, MIT, or HMC that get propped up just by having comparatively large CS and Eng departments. [/quote]

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