How much more $ does an engineer from MIT make?

Colleges and Universities A-Z Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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<p>After about 10-15 years in the industry it doesn’t matter where you went to school. It matters how well you perform on the job (engineering smarts AND office politics smart). That said, however, MIT and the other top engineering schools are a big discriminator between talent levels. If you got into a top engineering school, you should be able to do well in industry, but so should the top talented people that decided to go to a second tier school.</p>

<p>After all, what you learn in school after 10-15 years will be outdated in all but the slowest moving technical fields. So it is your ability to keep learning that will get you to and keep you at the top of your field.</p>

<p>I am still amazed, however, that people will light up a little when you say you went to MIT. But then you have to prove why it was that you went there.</p>

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<p>what about University of Washington? I cant find rankings but I know it’s not i ranked in the top ten. People tell me it’s a good engineering school, but how good? Compared to top schools like University of Mich or university of Illinois how successful are the students at finding top jobs?</p>