Absolutely. Cost of living in an area will have a massive impact on exit salaries. The economist did not realize that the South and Mid-west have the lowest co

Absolutely. Cost of living in an area will have a massive impact on exit salaries. The economist did not realize that the South and Mid-west have the lowest cost of living when they wrote the following: > Its upper tiers are dominated by colleges that emphasise engineering (such as Worcester Polytechnic) and attract students with high SAT scores (like Stanford). The lower extreme is populated by religious and art-focused colleges, particularly those in the south and Midwest. This number represents the benchmark against which we subsequently compare each college’s alumni earnings to produce the rankings.