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That's interesting. It's a little different from the survey I saw at payscale, where publics seem to do a bit better. http://www.payscale.com/college-salary-r
by geebee 13y ago
That's interesting. It's a little different from the survey I saw at payscale, where publics seem to do a bit better.
http://www.payscale.com/college-salary-report-2014/best-schools-by-major/computer-science http://www.payscale.com/college-salary-report-2014/best-scho...
They are measuring different things - the atlantic is measuring 20 year ROI, whereas payscale is measuring mid-career salary (according to the payscale methodology, "the typical (median) mid-career employee is 42 years old and has 15 years of experience." So higher initial salaries would fare better on the atlantic survey than the payscale one.
Only Berkeley, Stanford, and CMU show up on both lists, but what data is there does seem to confirm higher initial salaries for elite private college like Stanford (though the publics seem to catch up by mid-career).
- thaumasiotes 13y ago> the typical (median) mid-career employee is 42 years old and has 15 years of experience I find this pretty fascinating. I'm on track to hit or fall under this begin-your-career-at-the-age-of-27 threshold, but I've never perceived it as typical at all; quite the reverse. What are 50% of people doing until they're 27?
- geebee 13y agoI don't know, it's a good question. I personally floated around a bit in my early 20s and finally went to grad school at 26, so I'm more aligned with this definition of "mid-career", but I always thought of my case as a little unusual, especially for software careers. But maybe it's a little more typical than I thought.