<p>And from what I have seen in graduate surveys, Alabama, dayton, and notre dame (couldn’t find one for vandy) all have identical starting salaries (about 60k). About the same percentages of students from them have some sort of plan (grad school or job). The only major difference is a higher percentage of ND grads are going to grad school, while higher percentages of the other 2 are entering the workforce.
So just saying, the name of Notre Dame got the grads an equivalent salary to less heard of schools like dayton. That makes me skeptical of paying the extra money for the name, and not getting a different salary… How important is name for grad schools? Or is just having good gpa, etc. the important factor, not name. Why do I notice so many kids going to other schools across the country for a masters degree, when they could just do a 5 year combined bachelors master at the same school, cheaper, and faster?</p>