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What a terribly flawed article. They choose arbitrary universities for each major. The number of "elite" universities is small enough that the top 5 of each cou
by ken47 11y ago
What a terribly flawed article. They choose arbitrary universities for each major. The number of "elite" universities is small enough that the top 5 of each could trivially be added to the article. For example, in the CS table, where are Stanford, MIT, and CMU? Given how cherry-picked the data seems to be, I can only infer that the data-gathering methodology was even more flawed.
That's not to say that attending a prestigious university should, in and of itself, guarantee a higher salary. But there are so many positively correlated, salary-increasing traits with attending an elite university, that this article does not pass the smell test.
- Ologn 11y ago[From the article:] > For STEM-related majors, average earnings don’t vary much among the college categories. Perhaps average or media earnings are not affected much, but what about the outliers? Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg went to Harvard. Stanford had Larry Page, Sergey Brin, William Hewlett, David Packard, Leonard Bosack and Sandy Lerner, Peter Thiel, Reid Hoffman, Andy Bechtolsheim and others. One thing is good state schools have good people coming out of them as well - Bill Joy and Eric Schmidt went to UC Berkeley, Max Levchin and Marc Andreessen went to UIUC. There are some good state schools you see a number of successful tech people coming out of, they're not all expensive private schools. They all have a good reputatiion though, whether public or private.