<p>What should a person who graduated from MIT with a M.Arch expect to make when they first graduate?</p>
<p>This seems like a bit of an odd question in terms of why would a graduate of MIT make a different salary than someone from another MArch program? I would think the only data that is relevant is what starting salaries are for architects in general. Perhaps being trained at MIT may serve someone well in terms of being hired but I don’t think the salary will be different in relation to where one gets their degree! (no offense to MIT or anything…and hey, my own kid is getting an MArch from MIT after all).</p>
<p>Ask the dean of the Architecture school if they put out an analysis similar to the [url=<a href="http://mitsloan.mit.edu/pdf/fullreport99_00.pdf]Sloan’s[/url">http://mitsloan.mit.edu/pdf/fullreport99_00.pdf]Sloan’s[/url</a>].</p> ;
<p>This report from [url=<a href=“Bloomberg Businessweek - Bloomberg ”>Bloomberg Businessweek - Bloomberg ]BusinessWeek[/url</a>] may also be of help:</p>
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…But Does School Brand Matter? </p>
<p>Universities that made the top 50 have good reason to tout the report, which will likely help attract top students and justify high tuition costs. But it’s not clear that the universities themselves are responsible for the salaries of their graduates. </p>
<p>A study completed in the late 1990s by Princeton economist Alan Krueger and researcher Stacy Berg Dale concluded that Ivy League graduates are better paid than others, but not because of what they learned in school, or even alumni connections. It’s just that elite colleges select students for such characteristics as intelligence and drive, which also relate to earning potential. The study found that students who graduated from Ivy League institutions earned about the same as graduates with similar abilities who went elsewhere. </p>
<p>Jay Matthews, a Washington Post education columnist and author of Harvard Schmarvard: Getting Beyond the Ivy League to the College That Is Best for You, says it makes little sense to choose a college based on the salary of its graduates. “The happiest and richest people look for schools to help them develop their talents in whatever field that owns their soul,” says Matthews, who graduated from Harvard…
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