Ranking Your Alma Mater on How Much You Make

Interesting Article!



http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1914994,00.html

 

lovin that

 

Very interesting! Here's the payscale list the article talks about:

http://www.payscale.com/best-colleges/college-graduate-salary-statistics-by-location.asp

 

Sheesh, looks like I went to the wrong school.

Cory

 

FHSU - 63k... I guess I'll be consulting that list for my Masters

 

This is not right - were is Charter Oak or Touro U? I wonder how much of it is the person and how much is the school. If a person is a failure in life and graduated from MIT, how will they really do?

 

Well, keep in mind that this is hardly a serious ranking. It's something that people who like rankings enjoy reading. If you think about it, you don't need a ranking to know that graduates from the most prestigious schools on average have the highest income. Neither do you need a ranking to tell you that graduates from schools in the Northeast and California make more money than the national average because those are obviously the areas with the highest incomes and the highest costs of living. The ranking is by location only and doesn't consider any other factors vital for a comprehensive comparison.

 

Very good points. It would be nice to see if they could normalize the salaries with cost of living averages and maybe note how large the samples were for their survey. Also, my undergrad degree is from Southern Illinois University, but I work in the DC area, so my salary here is probably a lot higher than it would be in Illinois due to the cost of living. My salary would skew the values for my school due to where I live now.