education quality and salary

College Search & Selection
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<p>I read in studentsreview.com that Fordham, which is not a top tier school, sees its graduates have on average 300,000 dollar salaries after 10 years. </p>

<p>The 300,000 dollar figure after ten years is about the same in the case of Lehigh. Lehigh, which is a top tier school, is much less competitve than Tufts and Yale, yet Tufts and Yale graduates make much less, about 116,000 and 135,000 dollars per year, after 10 years in the workforce. </p>

<p>Boston University graduates make more on average than Cornell graduates as well. All these figures come from real surveys, which must be at least somewhat reliable.</p>

<p>Does anybody know why this is?</p>

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<p>studentsreview is not a real survey. Bogus. Anyone can post anything they want there--I have.</p>

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<p>I highly doubt that the average Fordham graduate makes 300,000 dollars in their early thirties.</p>

<p>And more competitive universities are more likely to have kids go to grad school or persue Phds, delaying career growth and affecting salaries.</p>

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<p>w00000000t BU! (I can tell you right now though--my cousin who graduated from Cornell like 5 years ago is making like $200,000 a year)</p>

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<p>300k is amazing; I'd doubt very many university grads would make it that high so soon.</p>

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All these figures come from real surveys, which must be at least somewhat reliable.

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<p>No, very unreliable. A far better approach would be to contact Career Services for the school that you're interested in.</p>

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<p>Haha are you kidding me, those numbers are definitely fictional.</p>

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<p>they seem to make sense for the most part, heres a link</p>

<p><a href="http://www.studentsreview.com/alumni.php3?SH=UCD&ST=CA%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.studentsreview.com/alumni.php3?SH=UCD&ST=CA&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

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<p>Your problem isn't necessarily the numbers; your problem is the site you're getting them from.</p>