Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is recently updated information

The median annual earnings of individuals that received federal student aid and began college at this institution 10 years ago, regardless of their completion status.

So the data is limited to students who received federal student aid. It's not a university -wide data.

Why would it make a difference?

Anonymous wrote:OMG, this nonsense again? Do yourself a favor and read Dale and Kruger, then ignore this.

This is one of the most important factors you should consider unless you are a trust fund kid and from a rich family.

This effort has initiated under the Obama administration with Department of Education as there are too much bullshit going in the higher education industry so consumers are better equipped when they make decisions.

This is not some magazine promotion.

The data and information is from FAFSA, IRS, loan servicing organizations.

No data/information is perfect and open to certain degree of interpretation, but this is one of the most important factors to take a look when you choose your school/major.

Anonymous wrote:Source?

up there in op

https://collegescorecard.ed.gov/

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is recently updated information

The median annual earnings of individuals that received federal student aid and began college at this institution 10 years ago, regardless of their completion status.

So the data is limited to students who received federal student aid. It's not a university -wide data.

Anonymous wrote:This is recently updated information

The median annual earnings of individuals that received federal student aid and began college at this institution 10 years ago, regardless of their completion status.

OMG, this nonsense again? Do yourself a favor and read Dale and Kruger, then ignore this.

Source?

Santa Clara should be in tier 2 above Swarthmore at $159,782.

Anonymous wrote:What's up with the Penn numbers?

This site is poorly done and doesn't group things very well at all. Penn comes in at $246k if you look at Computer and Information Sciences, General. Selecting Computer Engineering also gets you additional schools (like Princeton at over $227k).

Are the MIT people freaking out? This board is always so pro-MIT.

What's up with the Penn numbers?

Anonymous wrote:Is this entry salary or how many years into a job?

4 years after graduation

Is this entry salary or how many years into a job?

This is recently updated information

With new data coming out from the education department, I thought it might be interesting to take a look at which CS grads are making the most money. I have made three tiers out of the data, leaving ~40 top schools.

View the data for yourself here: https://collegescorecard.ed.gov/
Tier 1: Grads making more than $200k

Tier 2: Grads making more than $150k

Tier 3: Grads making more than $130k

Tier 1

School Name Median Earnings ($)
Harvard University $256,539
California Institute of Technology $253,305
Carnegie Mellon University $247,552
University of Pennsylvania $246,946
Brown University $218,525
Yale University $203,685
Stanford University $200,950

Tier 2

School Name Median Earnings ($)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology $199,774
Cornell University $185,679
Harvey Mudd College $183,524
California Poly SLO $181,838
University of California-Berkeley $178,867
University of Chicago $175,145
Rice University $172,391
University of California-Los Angeles $164,612
Vanderbilt University $164,139
Columbia University $160,457
Duke University $159,845
Swarthmore College $157,852
Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology $157,625
Dartmouth College $157,053

Tier 3

School Name Median Earnings ($)
University of Pennsylvania $146,438
University of Washington-Seattle Campus $144,297
University of Washington-Bothell Campus $144,297
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign $143,775
University of Southern California $143,152
Johns Hopkins University $140,666
Tufts University $139,886
University of Virginia-Main Campus $136,620
University of Rochester $136,559
San Jose State University $136,471
University of Michigan-Ann Arbor $135,625
University of Southern California $134,326
Emory University $133,212
Wellesley College $132,277
Northeastern University $132,227
Northeastern University Professional Programs $132,227
University of California-San Diego $131,731
Boston College $131,399
Northwestern University $130,650