<p>I was wondering what are the average gpa's of graduating comp sci majors who get jobs in the 60-70,000s. My comp sci professor said that by the time i graduate (class of 2011), the avg. pay for comp sci majors will be around 70,000 and he said that that s just for the average graduate. So what gpa is considered average and good for a comp sci from a good engineering school?</p>
<p>I know a couple of guys at my school who has a GPA of around 2.7 and gets paid about 85~100k.</p>
<p>In my experience (having applied for CS jobs as a senior last year, and gotten a good one), your GPA doesn't matter much if you come from a very good school. Only a couple of places even asked about mine (it's not on my resume), and I got a pretty good ratio of interviews-to-resumes-submitted. If you don't have the prestige, you probably need a good GPA, or something else on your resume that will show that you are smart, to get beyond the resume-submitting round.</p>
<p>jessiehl- did you have a lot of extracurriculars or things like that on your resume?</p>
<p>An average GPA would be about 3.0. A lot of big companies have a 3.0 GPA cutoff. Depending on the selectivity of the company, a good GPA would be 3.3 to 3.5.</p>
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jessiehl- did you have a lot of extracurriculars or things like that on your resume?
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<p>I had a lot of extracurriculars, some of which are stereotyped as resume-boosters in most industries, but I barely mentioned (or didn't mention) most of them on my resume, because they were irrelevant to most tech companies, and I wanted to keep the resume at one page. :)</p>
<p>I wasn't even a comp sci major. I was a neuro/cog sci major with a bunch of computer science and math classes on the side. But I had an extremely prestigious university name on my resume. I was taking the ultra-hardcore software engineering lab, and could talk about my projects and implementation strategies for that class in detail. I had software project experience. I had a previous internship. I could pass their coding tests and answer their technical questions.</p>
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