<p>Thanks adi. Definitely an interesting study. It's a good thing the Career Department keeps those figures. :)</p>
<p>Quick question: What's the difference between Business and Economics?</p>
<p>gia sure.
bright - business could include marketing, sales, operations, economics, human resources management, international biz, project mgmt, finance, etc. etc.
economics is economics</p>
<p>count on adides to know everything on princeton.edu! :) They should hire you at OIT!!!</p>
<p>What kind of job (not grad school, job) can you expect to find after majoring in physics, besides teaching or fundamental research? </p>
<p>Btw, only 25% of Princeton students attending grad school is fairly low imo.</p>
<p>:D i know the things on princeton.edu that relates to $$$ <strong>kaa-ching</strong>...we got to pay for those beers, right? ;)</p>
<p>physics grad, if you are interested in, are of huge demand on wall street as quants. quants, i think, also make more $$ than finance or econ grads on wall street. check out "my life as a quant" by derman to see how it physics/wallstreet intersect</p>
<p>25% going to grad school right after undergrad is a good #, coz most ppl thinking about going back to bschool would get 3-4 years of experience before going back to school</p>
<p>25% going to grad school right away means that the majority of grads can find a job, which is a very good thing.</p>
<p>quant? what that be?</p>
<p>quantitative analyst :p</p>
<p>zante, whats ur goal for number of posts? 8000?</p>
<p>It was 10,000, but I don't think it's possible to do that by September 10...Maybe I'll just leave it at 7,000.</p>
<p>yuuucandooooeeet.</p>
<p>(waterboy reference doesnt translate to text well....)</p>
<p>lol, no I don't think I can. It took me 4 month to post 1,000...granted, I post a lot more in the summer because I'm so bored at work, but still...4k just doesn't seem feasible.</p>
<p>100 posts a day. guess you'd hafta just post, post, post, even when you've got nothing to say.</p>
<p>No, that is strictly againt my CC posting morals. Being at the top, I have to set a good example and post relevant things. I'm never going to just be like "BUMP this is for my post count" though I think this little conversation we're having makes what I just said kind of hypocritical. </p>
<p>Even when I was trying to take over the whole board, I tried to post relevant opinions...so yea</p>
<p>Salaries after graduation are goood :p</p>
<p>Couple of things:</p>
<p>The earlier post about the MIT grad making $600k/yr base salary only three years out of undergrad is absolutely fictional. There is simply no possibility of that whatsoever. A lot of CEOs of a good-sized companies don't earn salaries (not including bonus and LTI) that high. Maybe this guy is talking in Korean Won not U.S.Dollars.</p>
<p>The surveys are only "reported salaries", i.e. $53k is the average reported starting salary. A low percentage of graduates actually report their salaries. The actual average salary (if everyone were to report) could be very different (lower).</p>
<p>I can't. Special how?</p>
<p>But in i-banking, $500k after 5 years is quite typical, so it must be possible...</p>
<p>How accurate are these surveys and do they give a fair picture of the kind of salaries people make after graduating from Princeton? How do the figures compare to other schools like Yale/Harvard graduates?</p>
<p>you shouldn't look at average salary averages because they do not tell you much. instead look at salaries by field and figure out whether princeton sends graduates into that field.</p>
<p>ie: princeton sends a lot of kids into banking. this year the bulge bracket banking salary was 55K+Bonus. anyone going into banking from any major will make that salary. consulting a little less, some engineering disciplines a little more. but unless you are an engineer you can't get those engineering jobs. working for the government will pay you a lot less. the same with working for a non-profit. you might find that some of the trust fund babies at princeton will work for non-profits with lower salaries b/c of their family's financial background. their salary will lower university averages even know they could have taken a 55K banking job should they have wanted to.</p>
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Quite a few of the people I know from Princeton are going into "consulting". What exactly does that mean - what are the kind of jobs you do in consulting and what are some of the popular firms that hire Princeton students?</p>