You're making a comparison to the top 10% of the graduating class of an ivy league college; if you did the same analysis on Stanford MSCs in CS you would probab

You're making a comparison to the top 10% of the graduating class of an ivy league college; if you did the same analysis on Stanford MSCs in CS you would probably get a similar breakdown. That doesn't mean everybody going into software engineering makes $200,000/year (I'm making the assumption that the private equity firms are hiring the top performers in this case).