Many schools publish public salary statistics for the graduates of last year. Some reports are better than others, but I’ve generally found good information th

Many schools publish public salary statistics for the graduates of last year. Some reports are better than others, but I’ve generally found good information that way. Just google "[school] salary statistics". For example, here's a pdf for Carnegie Mellon School of Computer science, which says last year there was a mean salary of $75k (which happens to be high compared to other universities I've seen): http://www.studentaffairs.cmu.edu/career/students_alumni/post-grad-survey/pdf/scs.pdf http://www.studentaffairs.cmu.edu/career/students_alumni/pos...