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<p>He’s probably talking about this.</p>
<p>[Cal</a> Poly Grads, Alumni Earn Top Starting, Mid-Career Salaries](<a href=“http://www.calpolynews.calpoly.edu/news_releases/2010/November/salaries.html]Cal”>http://www.calpolynews.calpoly.edu/news_releases/2010/November/salaries.html)</p>
<p>The explanation seems to be simple: Cal Poly is the most heavily technical-centric public school in the state. The school name is California Polytechnic after all. Berkeley’s salary figures are dragged down by the larger contingent of lower-paid humanities and social science majors. </p>
<p>Now, perhaps the point is that Berkeley should not offer so many of those lower-paid majors. In this day and age of constrained state budgets and UC funding, I have often times wondered whether tax dollars are being judiciously utilized to subsidize educational programs that seem to provide low economic benefit for the state. While those programs can still be offered, the question is whether they should continue to be subsidized by the taxpayer when state budgets are under severe stress. {After all, how many more Peace and Conflict Studies graduates does the state really need?} </p>
<p>But for the purposes of this thread, that’s neither here nor there. The point is to simply explain why Cal Poly apparently seems to have a higher overall starting salary than does Cal, when calculated across the entire student bodies.</p>