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I am not a Duke fan, but I find this highly suspect. Only four universities do better than Duke in the [Putnam</a> competition<a href=“Harvard,%20Princeton,%20MIT,%20and%20Caltech”>/url</a>. According to interesteddad’s [url=<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/swarthmore/60986-phd-production-math-computer-science.html]PhD”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/swarthmore/60986-phd-production-math-computer-science.html]PhD</a> production list](<a href=“http://www.math.harvard.edu/putnam/]Putnam”>http://www.math.harvard.edu/putnam/), Dartmouth and Duke send almost exactly the same percentage of students to graduate school in mathematics. Clearly Duke students are not suffering from inadequate teaching standards in the math department.</p>
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According to [this</a> site](<a href=“2024 College Rankings by Salary Potential | Payscale”>2024 College Rankings by Salary Potential | Payscale) the median starting pay for Dartmouth and Duke graduates are $58,000 and $58,900, respectively. One would not be disadvantaged by choosing one over the other.</p>