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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Whoever posted the Schev link.  Thanks!

Looking at the salary data (median), Tech and GMU are pretty impressive.  W&M is surprisingly at the bottom of the pile.

Bachelors degree -
18 months after graduation -  UVA - $42K. Tech and GMU - $40/$39K.
5 years after graduation - Tech - 60K; UVA/GMU - 60K

Master's degree - GMU leads for both 18 months after and 5 years after - $58K/74K

Overall all three - GMU, UVA and Tech seem to do well in salaries.  W&M is far behind on most categories.  Surprised!![/quote]

There are lots of reasons not to use the data to compare school "outcomes", however tempting it might be. The income data are limited to graduates who stay and work in Virginia. So for W&M, only 18% of grads had full-time wages after 5 years. That does not mean that 82% were unemployed. It just means that they weren't working in Virginia. So a student taking a job in finance on Wall Street or a management consulting job in Boston would be counted the same as the kid who moved home and could not find a job.  They tell you how much the commonwealth gets back in terms of graduate income, but not how graduates get in wages after attending the college. [/quote]

Makes more sense..[/quote]

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