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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Have things changed since the late 90s?  Genuine question.   Your experience sounds a lot like mine at an elite ivy undergrad in the late 90s.   However — at an elite law school, I WAS handed a 150k job right out of the gate.  So I guess in that respect it paid off.   My Dh who went to an elite ivy had a different experience in that he did take advantage of a lot of opportunities and really made deep connections (not necessarily wealthy ones) that lasted a lifetime.  [/quote]
CS/eng majors from top state schools also get six figures right out of college.  A lot cheaper than an expensive private.[/quote]

Look at which companies are the top hiring ones from ivies/stanford/MIT/CMU/Berkeley etc CS and which are the top from T40-100 state schools. it is a very different group of jobs open to elite grads: more management-tech jobs or top of team jobs with more upward mobility potential. The salaries fresh out are about 120k vs 90k until 2024....2024 has had a huge decrease in hiring for CS. Only the elite schools have continued to get hired at the same rates as prior years. 2023 data shows the beginning of the CS bubble bursting. When this happened in the early 2000s the top name schools weathered the storm a lot better. Plus, those schools are favored in top-cs/engineering MS/PhD hiring, serving as a backup if needed. MS at top schools in tech are often funded. All phDs worth getting are funded, and the best ones provide summer funds. [/quote]

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