I was wondering what the average starting salary for computer science grads are at northeastern. I tried to look online for the statistics but couldn’t find anything. I’m asking because this information is crucial in the college search.
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Starting salaries for a particular major should not factor into your college search. If this is an important criteria, you will not be making a good choice for yourself.
The “Look inside” tab here lists the median starting salary as 80K, which includes all majors in CCIS. I would expect CS to be a bit higher than the other majors in CCIS generally, so it’s probably in the 85-90K range.
http://www.ccis.northeastern.edu/alumni-and-friends/welcome-back/
As mentioned, specifically for CS, starting salary numbers don’t really tell you much for CS because the numbers are all pretty close to the same. For example, to use another school you’re looking at, RPI is 90K. The differences between the two programs are way more in teaching approach, co-op versus internships, location, etc than starting salary. A student from NEU and RPI will make the same starting salary if they go to the same company.
You also seem to be all over the place in terms of major choice. If your major changes, this entire criterion becomes irrelevant. You were asking about CMU ED Physics less than a month ago.
Kiddie, I think otherwise. College is a large investment in my future. I just want to make aure I’m getting the best return on investment possible. I think many students make errors getting into student loans by not researching this information.
Thanks pengsphils for the information.
Put me in the camp of seeing future salary potential as a key factor in your decission making process. Many people on CC will disagree. I recently came across this interesting article titled “Career advice you hear all the time that’s actually bunk”. It is pretty interesting. http://money.cnn.com/2017/08/01/pf/career-advice-bunk/index.html
I agree that being able to find a job after graduating and not being in debt are very important (yes, crucial). However, you shouldn’t select one school over another based upon a few thousand dollar difference in average salary. Also, you shouldn’t tie yourself too strongly to a particular major when you might decide you want to study something different.
Better information to use would be the quality of a school’s career services department (looking at things like post-graduation employment rates.) Northeastern consistently has one of the highest ranked career services in the country.
Salary potential should absolutely be a consideration. That doesn’t make the information of CS salaries for Northeastern grads crucial to a college search beyond perhaps verifying that the salary matches its peers.
@lionking973 While picking a major that will allow you to repay loans and live a decent lifestyle is important, I would caution you strongly from picking a major based on it, which it seems may be happening. I can’t tell you how many kids I see who pick CS for the money and switch majors within the first year at college when they realize they actually don’t know what it’s like or don’t like it as much as expected.
Your posts have mentioned possible majors of CS, CE (surprisingly different to CS), general engineering, Physics, and Business within the past year. Many of those subjects have similar trends. Even if you follow through with majoring in something you don’t enjoy, it likely won’t lead to enjoyable working years. Long story short, make sure you will enjoy what you study in addition to having earning potential.