Anonymous
Post 07/13/2025 17:20     Subject: Best colleges for the highest paying tech jobs.
Anonymous wrote:My DC graduated from a top public last year and is making six figures first year out in tech sales. A lot more money to be made in sales.

DC is having fun too meeting lots of people. But DC has the personality for sales. I know not everyone does.


Just tell your kid to save a huge %age of his earnings. Sales is a feast or famine role and also unfortunately a pennywise pound foolish place where companies cut.

Salesforce also sees AI as replacing their sales people…I don’t quite get that but the CEO mentions it a ton. Not sure if the industry feels the same.
Anonymous
Post 07/13/2025 13:28     Subject: Best colleges for the highest paying tech jobs.
Cal Poly SLO, San Jose State U, and Santa Clara U.

All three are feeders to SV tech firms, not just for STEM degrees, also for other degrees. The last two are actually in Silicon Valley.
Anonymous
Post 07/13/2025 09:11     Subject: Best colleges for the highest paying tech jobs.
Newly Released - Princeton Review's 2025 Top 20 Career Placement Schools for Public and Private and Top 50 best value colleges for public and Private

https://www.princetonreview.com/college-rankings?rankings=top-20-best-career-placement-public-schools

https://www.princetonreview.com/college-rankings?rankings=top-20-best-career-placement-private-schools

https://www.princetonreview.com/college-rankings?rankings=top-50-best-value-colleges-public-schools

https://www.princetonreview.com/college-rankings?rankings=top-50-best-value-colleges-private-schools



Anonymous
Post 07/13/2025 08:53     Subject: Best colleges for the highest paying tech jobs.
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:My DC graduated from a top public last year and is making six figures first year out in tech sales. A lot more money to be made in sales.

DC is having fun too meeting lots of people. But DC has the personality for sales. I know not everyone does.


Engineering Degree?


No. Social science degree that DCUM considers a Mickey Mouse degree!


Nice. Congrats to your DC.
Anonymous
Post 07/13/2025 02:34     Subject: Best colleges for the highest paying tech jobs.
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:My DC graduated from a top public last year and is making six figures first year out in tech sales. A lot more money to be made in sales.

DC is having fun too meeting lots of people. But DC has the personality for sales. I know not everyone does.


Engineering Degree?


No. Social science degree that DCUM considers a Mickey Mouse degree!
Anonymous
Post 07/12/2025 21:33     Subject: Best colleges for the highest paying tech jobs.
Anonymous wrote:PP here - will make 175K total comp second year out


What type of role?
Anonymous
Post 07/12/2025 18:40     Subject: Best colleges for the highest paying tech jobs.
Anonymous wrote:My DC graduated from a top public last year and is making six figures first year out in tech sales. A lot more money to be made in sales.

DC is having fun too meeting lots of people. But DC has the personality for sales. I know not everyone does.


Engineering Degree?
Anonymous
Post 07/12/2025 17:36     Subject: Best colleges for the highest paying tech jobs.
My DC graduated from a top public last year and is making six figures first year out in tech sales. A lot more money to be made in sales.

DC is having fun too meeting lots of people. But DC has the personality for sales. I know not everyone does.
Anonymous
Post 07/12/2025 14:50     Subject: Best colleges for the highest paying tech jobs.
Title should be "Best Private Colleges for the highest paying Tech Jobs"
Anonymous
Post 07/12/2025 12:37     Subject: Best colleges for the highest paying tech jobs.
PP here - will make 175K total comp second year out
Anonymous
Post 07/12/2025 12:36     Subject: Best colleges for the highest paying tech jobs.
My DC graduated in 25 from a nescac - was an athlete so think that helped, but landed a great tech role in NYC. SLACs punch well above their weight with tech, especially athletes with data and econ backgrounds who can actually talk to adults
Anonymous
Post 07/12/2025 11:55     Subject: Best colleges for the highest paying tech jobs.
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Gatech, UIUC, Umich and other ( maybe overrated?) Tech titans didn't make the list.


"Data is for 2013-2024. Includes Private Institutions Only". Dude how did you miss this!?


They apparently got so excited finding a Top list for Tech/Engineering Georgia Tech wasn't on that they got too excited and got careless. Narrative they wanted didn't work out for them.
Anonymous
Post 07/12/2025 10:04     Subject: Best colleges for the highest paying tech jobs.
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:what is a Harvard "tech" alum? They barely have an engineering school. What is the Olin College of engineering?
Also useful to note that these figures (according to your link) are the amount of over the average a tech alum earns.
Though, as a (highly paid) STEM alum myself, I note that they don't really clarify by what they mean by "XXX tech alum" - is that the average? median?

So I don't really put too much stock in this. No association myself, but GATech esp strikes me as a totally good bargain that this "survey" would not cause me to change my view of at all. Def. ignoring Santa Clara University - I mean, in Silicon valley, $30k above the tech average would get you an outhouse to live in. No thanks.

They're a big deal in engineering.


Never heard of them. Interesting.
Anonymous
Post 07/12/2025 07:45     Subject: Best colleges for the highest paying tech jobs.
Anonymous wrote:Gatech, UIUC, Umich and other ( maybe overrated?) Tech titans didn't make the list.


"Data is for 2013-2024. Includes Private Institutions Only". Dude how did you miss this!?
Anonymous
Post 07/12/2025 01:15     Subject: Best colleges for the highest paying tech jobs.
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:https://www.visualcapitalist.com/best-u-s-colleges-for-high-paying-tech-jobs/

Harvard University $45K

Princeton University $43K

Stanford University $43K

California Institute of Technology $41K

Yale University $39K

Brown University $37K

Franklin W Olin College of Engineering $34K

University of Pennsylvania $32K

Duke University $32K

Carnegie Mellon $32k

Massachusetts Institute of Technology $32K

Amherst College $31K

Columbia University in the City of New York $31K

Cornell University $31K

Williams College $30K

Dartmouth College $30K

Harvey Mudd College $29K

Pomona College $28K

Santa Clara University $28K

University of San Francisco $27K

Gatech, UIUC, Umich and other ( maybe overrated?) Tech titans didn't make the list


The footnote on the graph says "includes private institutions only".

-state flagship graduate who learned how to rapidly scan and critically analyze information in college


Great catch!! OP what do you have to say for yourself? lol