<p>Does UCLA have a webpage on average starting salaries based on majors, like Berkeley's career center?</p>
<p>just curious</p>
<p>$5.75/hour!...$6.00/hour w/honors!!</p>
<p>*average wages...</p>
<p>yes i would like the link also</p>
<p>You get paid in delicious campus squirrels. They're pretty tender and plump.</p>
<p>Edit: If you go to UCLA Career Center and ask for the salary survey, they have it. It's not UCLA's but schools in California and the responses back with salary.</p>
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<p>A word of caution, don't trust salary info given out by career centers. </p>
<p>1) It's self selective...nobody is going to respond to a survey if they're making minimum wage. </p>
<p>2) You're stupid if you think there's any difference between UCLA and UCB in salary granted the major is the same.</p>
<p>Also note, sometimes people do not find a job in their major. Some may do charity work and what not which brings down average salaries. Do a bit of research and you'll find that salaries do not change that much from school to school if any. Only school that comes to mind is Harvard/M.I.T. with the Ibanking crew.</p>
<p>Your best bet is to ask recent graduates nicely since salary is like GPA/SAT scores, some may brag about it and what not. </p>
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<p>LaxAttack09 nailed it: it's self-selective, so the figures of any salary survey, be it from UCLA or UCB, are likely going to be biased towards the above-average respondents. :rolleyes:</p>
<p>Just wondering if you ever got a response to this question. If you did can you please give me the same info you got?</p>
<p>with rising food prices and imminent disaster you wont be able to feed a family with a ucla degree! better go to stanford instead!</p>
<p>our school does not collect data on this, but given the trends (sd grads earning less than berkeley grads and irvine, sb grads earning less than sd), it can be expected that the average ucla graduate earns slightly less than the average cal graduate. but that is just the average.</p>
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our school does not collect data on this, but given the trends (sd grads earning less than berkeley grads and irvine, sb grads earning less than sd), it can be expected that the average ucla graduate earns slightly less than the average cal graduate. but that is just the average.
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<p>I find this very hard to believe. Do you have any sources to back up this claim?</p>
<p>The only reason I do have a hard time with it is the fact that my experience as a UCLA grad has been that my income has generally been extremely similar to my Cal and UCSD graduate friends. I also find it hard to believe based on how market forces generally work.</p>
<p>If it is the case that SD grads make less than LA grads, I'd be inclined to believe that it's more a factor of average income in the two cities than anything else.</p>
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our school does not collect data on this, but given the trends (sd grads earning less than berkeley grads and irvine, sb grads earning less than sd), it can be expected that the average ucla graduate earns slightly less than the average cal graduate. but that is just the average.
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<p>If the schools don't collect data on grad salaries, how could it be concluded that the salaries are ranked as indicated? Furthermore, many of the same companies are recruiting at many of these colleges and the starting offers will likely be the same with the possible exception, as 'UCLARi' stated, of regional differences in salaries but this would be based on where the job is, not where the school is.</p>
<p>I can't think of a reason why a UCSD, UCLA, UCB grad would get any premium in a salary offer for having attended one of those UCs versus the other.</p>
<p>many ucs have this data. ucla is among the few that do not. </p>
<p>yes, there should be no salary difference if the graduates were doing the same jobs. that being said, however, who said that they were doing the same job?</p>
<p>honestly, ucla is not the best school in the universe, and to think that it places equally as well as berkeley is pure arrogance and fantasy. do you have any sources to back up your claims uclari?</p>
<p>ijreinsn,</p>
<p>You're putting words in my mouth, I'm afraid.</p>
<p>I sincerely doubt that UCLA grads do the same jobs as Berkeley grads. For one, the Bay Area and the Los Angeles Basin have fairly different economies. Nonetheless, there is a very quickly approached upper limit on the differences between salaries of school X and school Y grads.</p>
<p>Nonetheless, while I do not think that UCLA and Berkeley are necessarily equals, I also find it hard to believe that the job market is so fickle that UCLA grads do that much worse: for one, the employers present at job fairs suggest that they have similar success with top employers. Otherwise, one would be led to believe that those employers wouldn't bother with UCLA or Berkeley.</p>
<p>Now, do I believe that they get the same employers? Of course not. As I stated before, they have different markets. But the notion that two of the best schools in their regions are not netting fairly similar salaries for recent grads is hard to believe. </p>
<p>I mean, I sincerely doubt that Vanderbilt has the same average recent graduate salary of UCLA or Berkeley, but I'd be willing to bet that whatever the differences are can probably be attributed largely to location either way.</p>
<p>Employers are simply not as into this ranking business as the average CCer believes.</p>
<p>oh god. 2nd times a million on that last line ari. </p>
<p>in the real world you will likely work with wide mix of people. some of them will have graduated from "better" schools than you and some may have gone to a school that you (and the rankings) consider significantly less prestigious. except that doesn't really matter because during the interview process you're being judged on whether you have the <em>personality</em> and practical skillset to do the job. the school you graduated from is usually not judged heavily (save for within a few very specific companies in a few very specific industries) and it is almost certainly not taken into consideration when they come up with that number on your offer letter. </p>
<p>more likely than not they already have a very clear understanding of what they're willing to pay someone in an entry level position and ucla v cal v sd v whatever won't sway that. unless you have some kind of really persuasive concrete reasoning as to why you deserve more money, don't expect that a few letters on your resume are going to sway them. </p>
<p>and anyway, half the time people forget where you went to school 2 weeks into the job. </p>
<p>the sooner you kids realize that rankings are almost entirely worthless once you commit to a school, the sooner you can get over the competition crap and focus on actually making yourself an attractive candidate based on your own merits. not your alma mater.</p>
<p>Why is this important? Is that all you go to college for to get money? What about making the world a better place? Ever think about that?</p>
<p>I'm afraid that I am not UCLAri. It is very much the opposite. </p>
<p>Anyways, let's put it in terms you might understand better. </p>
<p>Bain, Mckinsey, and other major consulting firms recruit at Berkeley.
Google, Yahoo, and other companies also actively recruit at Berkeley. </p>
<p>They do not at UCLA. When I say recruit, I do not mean you can just find them on Bruinview. I mean actively recruit. </p>
<p>As I said before, the average salary of an UCLA grad will be slightly lower than a Berkeley grad's. As a Bruin, I wish that were not the logical case, but it is. By looking at data from the other UCs, you can infer a slight correlation between the quality of the school's programs and salary, the reasoning being that the better programs lead to better jobs on average. </p>
<p>Ultimately, in the long run, the Berkeley grad will have some opportunities that the UCLA grad will not and vice versa but more the latter. </p>
<p>To use a metaphor, if you go to Berkeley, you won't be at the top of the mountain, but you can see it. If you go to UCLA, you won't even be able to see the top.</p>
<p>^all i read is gimme more more more</p>
<p>You're saying the *average *salary of a UCLA grad is lower than that of a Berkeley grad, but basing that only on the programs that are better at Berkeley than UCLA? Maybe it was unintentional, but not every program at Berkeley is better than UCLAs</p>
<p>And both Google and Yahoo are headquartered in NorCal...that might mean something for why they would recruit at Berkeley and not at LA</p>
<p>i hope you don't actually believe that mountain BS. </p>
<p>some of you guys are so firmly entrenched in your prestige bubbles it's sickening. </p>
<p>transfer to berk if it's so greatly superior. seriously. why stay at a school that you think sucks and won't offer you any opportunities?</p>