I am not monetarily constrained I am just concerned. I ended up choosing Lehigh but I am going to be living on campus.
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Win win - you like it and you’ll experience college, not high school part 2. Good luck to you. Thanks for updating.
Two great options ! I think that you understood the differences between the two school cultures.
Lehigh seems like the easy choice here to me. Ignore average salaries. They provide information about groups, not individuals. You’re a group of one. Research has shown that similar applicants who’ve gotten into the same competitive college, do just as well regardless of whether they attend the more competitive college or a different one. You’ll do very well as long as you don’t let the frat party scene at Lehigh become a distraction. The only advantage that CMU provides is that they don’t offer that same distraction.
Lehigh is a very well respected institution and it’s reputation will hold up after you graduate. Engineering is rigorous wherever you go.
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No, it doesn’t.
Masters students were $123K. PhD was 144.5K.
This is pretty easy to verify. Post-Graduation Outcomes - Career & Professional Development Center - Student Affairs - Carnegie Mellon University
2020, ECE major, Bachelor’s degree. Do others see a different chart?
Fwiw, I can assure you my fraternity offered plenty of distractions at CMU. 
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I graduated Lehigh engineering many years ago. I believe it has served me well in my career as a software engineer. My 4 years there were great. All of my classmates have done very well in engineering, business, and other careers. Good luck!
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Touring Lehigh this Thursday … (also applying to CMU Stats/ML) … zeroing in on Lehigh as a solid tgt … thinking of it as “RPI with a better work-life-m/f balance” (and a prettier campus too).
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