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[quote=Anonymous]Just go to a top school where the median starting salary is close to or over 100k. 
Over 100k: 
MIT, Stanford, Penn(Engineering is highest, Wharton next, CAS is under 100k but is getting close), 
All ivies except Brown and Dartmouth are above 100k. 
Duke like Brown and Dartmouth is just under 100k, JHU and Northwestern and Williams are a little lower than those.
Those # do not include the large proportion of undergrads at these schools who go to law, med, or grad school, the first two of which easily lead to careers where salaries even in the lower range are 200k+. Top law and most med specialties have means above 300k these days, at the partner level ie by age 30-32. phD in Stem in private industry (R&D) are often 200k+ fairly easy to achieve before age 30 due to PhD in most Stem fields being 5 yrs.
Hence it is not all about the starting salary, it is about the trajectory. 
Some jobs start at 90-100k with a Bachelors yet cap around 115-120 or have high burnout/high turnover. Whereas a doctor or lawyer or others have a slower start to finish school/training but then have basically guaranteed top 2% salary for the entire career. 
Better to focus on the long term fit in a career and/or a doctorate level degree that is in demand in high and low economies[/quote]

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