<p>After about 10-15 years in the workforce how much more money on average will an engineer from caltech make than one from say your above average state school? (UT, A&M, Mich, Ga tech...)</p>
<p>no idea…</p>
<p>Probably not much (if any) assuming they’re doing engineering and didn’t decide to go into finance.</p>
<p>do most people at caltech decide to go into finance?</p>
<p>[Caltech</a> … CAREER DEVELOPMENT CENTER … Companies Chosen …](<a href=“http://www.career.caltech.edu/life/companies/index.shtml]Caltech”>http://www.career.caltech.edu/life/companies/index.shtml)</p>
<p>That’ll show you where people have been going, and if you click on Salaries on the left you can see how much they’re making. Response rate seems pretty low, so I have no clue how representative it is.</p>
<p>about 42 cents/day</p>
<p>please don’t bother applying to caltech if this is one of your questions</p>
<p>I’m not applying, octalc0de, I was merely curious how much greater the monetary benefits were from an extremely prestigious university as apposed to a well respected public school.</p>
<p>Your post did absolutely nothing to help me or anyone else, thank you.</p>
<p>Oh. Well, while we’re on the subject of completely unhelpful posts, my room has no air conditioner, and it’s kind of hot. Does anybody have some cold air they could send me?</p>
<p>Yes. Is ground shipping OK?</p>
<p>Actually, if it’s all the same to you, I’d prefer air mail. <a href=“http://www.instantrimshot.com/[/url]”>http://www.instantrimshot.com/</a></p>
<p>Well, I’ll hazard a guess to the OP’s question, based on no hard data, but just a general impression garnered from 30 years of looking at the detailed salary data in Chemical & Engineering News: If an engineer has the general intellectual capability needed to graduate from Caltech, then regardless of the university attended, after 10-15 years of employment, the engineer’s salary will depend primarily on accomplishments at work, choices made, and overall ability at “self-advocacy.” A complicating factor in the analysis is the strong correlation of employment locale, salaries, and cost of living. </p>
<p>For a full-freight-paying student, if monetary concerns are the deciding factor, then–historically–I’m pretty certain that it would have been better financially to attend an in-state university, of the caliber of U Mich, UT, or Ga Tech, while investing the money saved in the stock market. It is possible that institutional prestige will have a stronger effect for current students, however.</p>
<p>But I’m not sure whether the OP will find many like-minded students at Caltech (heh, understatement). After all, the Caltech thread about what to bring to college covers belt sanders (pro and con) and equipment to be cannibalized, before clothes.</p>
<p>@Quelloquialism: There is a lot of cold air here that I’d be willing to exchange for warmer air. I suggest that we both drive to central Nebraska, bringing air in large Dewar flasks, and then exchange flasks.</p>
<p>I think Quello would actually do that… I wouldn’t take him up on that offer. He also might put something weird in the Dewar flask he gives to you.</p>
<p>Hey Quello, you should make a “What are my chances of getting into Caltech” algorithm like your college ranking algorithm and post it.</p>
<p>More seriously, based on my very limited experience I would agree with you QuantMech.</p>
<p>at the tour guide meeting they said the average starting salary for caltech graduates is $71,000 (making it the #1 school in the nation for starting salary)</p>
<p>idk about 10-15 years from then.</p>
<p>[Which</a> College Grads Earn the Most? - BusinessWeek](<a href=“http://www.businessweek.com/lifestyle/content/aug2008/bw2008087_013640_page_3.htm]Which”>http://www.businessweek.com/lifestyle/content/aug2008/bw2008087_013640_page_3.htm)</p>
<p>basically No.1 in the nation for starting salary, but its rank falls a little for experienced salary, although still one of the highest paid in the nation along with other Ivies and MIT.</p>