<p>Hello CC. I am s rising senior, trying to narrow down my school list. I have a big dilemma, whether going to a privatie or public school would be better. I read a few posts comparing both type of schools. Unfortunately, none of them answered my question, which is: whats the average difference in salaries ? </p>
<p>I am interested in majoring in either engineering or computer science. Is there a big difference between salaries of people who graduated from private and public schools?</p>
<p>Sorry if I sound chaotic, but that is a really important question for me right now.</p>
<p>For engineering, any state school is good. What state are you from ? I would go with the in-state option. </p>
<p>If you live in any one of the following states, you are at a significant advantage compared to others.</p>
<p>Michigan
Illinois
Georgia
Indiana
Wisconsin
Minnesota
Texas
California</p>
<p>Im from New York. The SUNY schools are actually pretty cheap.</p>
<p>Most engineering and computer science jobs will pay well, so instead you should be asking which schools are heavily recruited. You can get high-paying jobs coming out of both private and public schools. Go to a school that you can reasonably afford and that is ABET-accredited.</p>
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<p>I work in the Computer Science field with people who went to both - no difference whatsoever in salary.</p>
<p>Employers who hire engineers and computer scientists don’t set differential pay scales based on whether the person they hired went to a public or private university. The only difference between schools is which get recruited more heavily, and by which employers. And that’s not going to depend on a public-private distinction, it’s going to depend in part on the stature of the particular engineering/CS program, the condition of the local and regional labor market in these fields, and the degree to which the school (and more particularly its engineering/CS program) draws interest from employers outside its home region. Generally speaking, higher ranked engineering/CS programs are going to attract more attention whether they’re public or private.</p>
<p>Stony Brook has a good reputation for CS and engineering.</p>
<p>Some schools do have post-graduation surveys, although their survey and reporting methodologies differ enough that one has to be careful comparing different schools. Remember also that hiring has local and regional bias, so differences in pay levels for graduates of different schools may include regional variations in pay levels (e.g. Berkeley, Stanford, and San Jose State computer science graduates report high pay levels, but these schools happen to be near Silicon Valley with lots of employers and generally high pay levels).</p>
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