College ROI Report

[rutgersdave]

Interesting listing with many Engineering schools on top. Rutgers Newark at 41 is questionable and might be an error but maybe there are more liberal arts and communication majors at New Brunswick. Interesting how ND and Penn State are worse than Rutgers but might be due to the cost of living and location where the graduate decide to live.

http://www.payscale.com/college-roi/

 

[Upstream]

My concern with these types of reports from sites like Payscale.com or Salary.com is that the accuracy of the analysis is dependent on the underlying salary data being correct. But the salary data on these sites is woefully inaccurate, so the analysis is fairly meaningless.

Even if the salary data were accurate, there is not much value in comparing all students at an engineering school with all students at a diverse university. We know engineers command higher salaries on average than English majors. A comparison of schools should either normalize for differences in major, or be major specific (i.e., compare engineering majors separately from comparing chemistry majors).
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[derleider]

More to the point - this includes only people who have bachelors.

Which makes the engineering vs everything else dichotomy even worse, since engineers can make big bucks without ever going to grad school, wherreas lots of people who end up making big bucks, including lawyers and doctors, must go to grad school.

 

[Rokodesh]

good god these schools are expensive. My future kids are gonna start working as soon as they graduate first grade.