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