Importance of Engineering School Prestige

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Those surveys are richer than you think. Pull the statistics and compare starting salaries and offer rates between schools from different tiers. Then perform a longitudinal analysis from pre and post recession. The evidence is clear and indisputable.

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<p>This is your claim-

Similarly, if you look at the hiring statistics, a 2.5 to 3.0 student from UF have a very hard time finding employment, where as from the top schools, such as GT, this is not nearly as big of an issue. We’re not talking about the very high paying positions, but the near-average salary positions in your engineering field.

Are you actually claiming I can find this data in the so-called statistics you posted? I don’t even see UF listed here, let alone anything like this type of granularity.</p>

<p>Is there some benefit to attending a more prestigious school? Likely so. If for some bizarre reason an engineer wants to work at Goldman Sachs will they have a better chance coming from MIT? Likely. But so will an econ major from Harvard. </p>

<p>But to try to conduct some sort of actual analysis using self-reported data compiled from multiple sources, using multiple and varied methodologies, and often comparing apples to oranges is a fool’s errand. Plus I don’t particularly like average as a metric. When one salary is $400,000 it can become sort of meaningless. I prefer a full range of statistical data including median at the very least, gathered by the same researchers using equivalent methodology and controls.</p>

<p>Plus, I have actual real work to do. But if you have a link to a reputable and relevant controlled study, I’ll certainly look at it.</p>