College prestige importance or lack thereof for various majors, career paths, and graduate / professional schools

Agreed that not all kids seek the same experience. Similarly kids from some of these elite schools don’t seek the same career outcomes and use their engineering degrees to get jobs in lucrative careers such as IB and management consulting.

The Ivies appear to hold their own in terms of financial worth. This is a ranking from FreeOpp that looks at ROI amongst CS majors.

  1. CMU $4,125,963
  2. Rice $3,781,869
  3. Brown $3,535,080
  4. Stanford $3,305,484
  5. Yale $3,296,380
  6. Harvard $3,268,145
  7. Caltech $3,102,888
  8. Cornell $2,966,699
  9. Cal Poly $2,920,317
  10. MIT $2,909,266
  11. UCLA $2,853,535
  12. UC Berkeley $2,843,321
  13. Duke $2,546,552
  14. Johns Hopkins $2,515,869
  15. Vanderbilt $2,461,053
  16. UIUC $2,417,724
  17. U Michigan $2,258,080
  18. Columbia $2,130,692
  19. GeorgiaTech $1,966,139
  20. UW Seattle $1,943,759

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