<p>Does anyone happen to know where I can find a list of CS starting salaries sorted by college/university? This would be incredibly helpful, and save me (and others) from scouring college web sites for information that sometimes isn't there...</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>I’d be interested to learn that information as well. I don’t think I’ve ever seen anything like that… but you’d imagine that information is out there somewhere.</p>
<p>We should just get a bunch of links from different college’s websites on their college’s salary statistics.</p>
<p>I’ll start it off with Michigan’s: [Michigan</a> Engineering | Salary Information and Surveys](<a href=“http://career.engin.umich.edu/salary/]Michigan”>http://career.engin.umich.edu/salary/)</p>
<p><a href=“https://career.berkeley.edu/Major/CompSci.stm[/url]”>https://career.berkeley.edu/Major/CompSci.stm</a>
<a href=“https://career.berkeley.edu/Major/EECS.stm[/url]”>https://career.berkeley.edu/Major/EECS.stm</a></p>
<p>There should be a sticky with a list of of various college salary information. Here is my contribution. University of Minnesota-Twin Cities [Salary</a> Statistics](<a href=“http://www.ccse.umn.edu/salarystats.html]Salary”>http://www.ccse.umn.edu/salarystats.html)</p>
<p>Please don’t make the mistake of choosing one college over another because of average starting salaries.</p>
<p>Different parts of our country have different pay scales. New York city jobs pay much, much more than jobs in Moscow, Idaho. Enough students that graduate from a particular college stay in the general location that the statistics all get goofed up.</p>
<p>For example, you might find that graduates from University of Idaho has a lower starting pay than graduates from New York City. That doesn’t indicate that a UI graduate who accepts a job in New York city will earn less than a graduate from New York University. And it doesn’t indicate that a graduate from NYU who accepts a job in Moscow, ID will earn more than the person who graduated from UI.</p>
<p>There are a LOT of variables and unknowns before one can determine the average starting salary for a given major based on the school of their undergraduate degree.</p>
<p>1) Like someone pointed out, you need to account for the cost of living for each of the entry-level positions for CS majors for a certain school.</p>
<p>2) Some companies pay graduates by school recognition and some companies pay graduates by company guidelines regardless of the graduate’s school.</p>
<p>3) Some companies count previous experience (internships, on-campus) before the degree was given and some companies do not.</p>
<p>4) Some CS specializations/emphasis pay more than others.</p>
<p>5) From MY OWN personal experience, here in the Washington DC area, some starting grads are getting $25,000-$30,000 more than other graduates because they obtained a security clearance (TS/SCI+Poly) while interning for NSA/FBI/CIA.</p>
<p>Just way too many factors.</p>
<p><a href=“https://www.careers.calpoly.edu/search.php?yr=2008%20-%202009[/url]”>https://www.careers.calpoly.edu/search.php?yr=2008%20-%202009</a></p>
<p>But ditto what people have said regarding geography. One should be able to directly compare schools that compete with each other. I think it’s apparent that UC Berkeley has a more prestigious mix of employers and higher pay compared to Cal Poly, but not as much as one might think.</p>
<p>A TS clearance for an intern? Hard to believe they would do that. Even a Secret clearance for a summer intern seems extravagant. Naturally, it is much easier at that age to get though since you usually have minimal paper trail, etc.</p>
<p>“A TS clearance for an intern? Hard to believe they would do that. Even a Secret clearance for a summer intern seems extravagant. Naturally, it is much easier at that age to get though since you usually have minimal paper trail, etc.”</p>
<p>A person cannot work at 90% of NSA unless they have a TS/SCI. From what I am told, the clearance process is started very early in the year so that the intern has been processes when he/she starts. We also have students who are doing co-ops where they are staying out a semester and working at NSA.</p>
<p>It’s probably easier to do now with more online courses.</p>