Most stats about schools are input focused. Where do college graduates end up?

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<p><a href="http://www.careerservices.calpoly.edu/Students/CareerPlanning/gsr.htm%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.careerservices.calpoly.edu/Students/CareerPlanning/gsr.htm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>Click on the right folder after clicking on the link.</p>

<p>Anybody have links for other schools?</p>

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<p>This is a fascinating question, in fact, and not well researched. (Yes, there is Krueger and Dale.) What I am interested in is where students coming from various income strata end up. If you tell me that a Yale student paying full freight is more likely to end up at Harvard Law or on Wall Street relative to a Pell Grant recipient at Berkeley, you haven't told me anything I couldn't have told you in advance. And if you told me that Yale graduates as a whole (with only 10% Pell Grant recipients in the class) are more likely to end up at Harvard Law or on Wall Street than Berkeley graduates as a whole (with 36% Pell Grant recipients), you've told me even less.</p>

<p>Like all things college (and Krueger and Dale are asking the right question, even if some question the methodology), what one should really want to determine is the relative "value added". But it's difficult to do, and there are strong, vested interests that would prefer it not be done.</p>

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<p>This is one of the areas we researched in helping our S decide which acceptance to take - where the undergrads end up.</p>

<p>Here's Penn SEAS 2004:
<a href="http://www.vpul.upenn.edu/careerservices/seas/Senior%20Survey%202004%20Final.pdf%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.vpul.upenn.edu/careerservices/seas/Senior%20Survey%202004%20Final.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>and prelim 2005:
<a href="http://www.vpul.upenn.edu/careerservices/seas/prelim.pdf%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.vpul.upenn.edu/careerservices/seas/prelim.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>and CMU SCS 2005:</p>

<p><a href="http://www.studentaffairs.cmu.edu/career/employ/salary/scs.pdf%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.studentaffairs.cmu.edu/career/employ/salary/scs.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>At a mimimum it gives you an idea of what kind of companies are most likely to recruit. Since our S is more interested in development and "Silicon Valley" rather than financial analysis, it reinforced his preference for CMU.</p>

<p>The best place to find this kind of info is through each college's career center link.</p>

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<p>Mini, I agree with your post #2. I would like to see the value added also.</p>

<p>From what Marilyn posted, I don't see the value added from a Penn engineering degree over a Cal Poly engineering degree. The salaries of students coming out of both schools are similar. When you consider the costs of the two schools, Cal Poly is a much better value. And I'm pretty positive Cal Poly's student body starts out poorer than Penn's.</p>

<p>CMU doesn't break down the salaries of its graduates in detail, but it looks like CMU engineering graduates do get larger salaries.</p>