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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Given its ranking, Yale is incredibly weak in engineering. Most of the major public universities are far better. Harvard too is comparatively weak given its name. Both schools have the resources so not sure what the problem is. I think traditionally Ivy League schools looked down upon engineering. And now they're playing catch up. It's interesting that the best Ivy for engineering - Cornell - is also kind of sort of a public school.

Other notable schools weak in engineering - Chicago and Georgetown.[/quote]

WSJ rates Harvard #1 for top colleges for engineering salaries.  https://www.wsj.com/articles/top-colleges-high-paying-jobs-engineering-7be5d8f2

RANK
COLLEGE
ANNUAL SALARY PREMIUM
ENGINEERING % OF GRADUATES
AVERAGE YEARLY SALARY
2019-2020 AVERAGE NET PRICE
1	Harvard University	$39,945	1.79%	$130,119	$18,037
2	Stanford University	$34,385	6.57%	$124,559	$20,023
3	California Institute of Technology	$25,252	13.63%	$115,426	$26,591
4	Princeton University	$24,995	3.97%	$115,169	$18,685
5	Brown University	$24,553	3.02%	$114,727	$27,659
6	University of Pennsylvania	$20,477	2.94%	$110,651	$24,167
7	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	$19,576	15.00%	$109,750	$19,998
8	Columbia University in the City of New York	$17,736	4.06%	$107,910	$22,126
9	Dartmouth College	$16,256	2.98%	$106,430	$24,525
10	Santa Clara University	$15,883	5.62%	$106,057	$48,284

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Wow! Nice to see Santa Clara so high.[/quote]

Of course, California is about 35% more expensive from a cost of living perspective and San Jose (Silicon Valley) is 50% higher than the national average.  I imagine this plays a significant role.[/quote]
+1 a lot of SV companies hire from local schools like SC and even SJSU (cheap CSU school).  They get paid SV salaries, but the col there is super high.  I used to live there, and even took some CS classes at SJSU.

The same thing would apply to all those graduates ^ in that list. It really depends on where you live.

Let's say you make $100K.  That is a lot in the midwest and south; not so much in the Bay Area, or DC.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/100k-salary-city-affordability/

[quote]On the other end of the spectrum, New York ranked dead last in affordability, with a $100,000 salary in the Big Apple equivalent to just $36,000 in take-home pay elsewhere in the nation.

California features heavily on the least-affordable list, with the 10 priciest cities including San Francisco, Los Angeles, Long Beach, San Diego and Oakland. About 4 in 10 households in the state make over $100,000, census data show, but the price of housing in the state has skyrocketed to the point where a four-person family making six figures qualifies for federal assistance in San Francisco and other parts of the Bay Area. [/quote][/quote]

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