The Perennial Question: How much debt is "reasonable"

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<p>These aren’t 40-hr. work weeks, though.</p>

<p>To say the least …</p>

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<p>And I’m going to guess that many marry other Google-ites. I mean, with such crazy work hours, who else are you going to meet?</p>

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<p>^They also think it’s fun to spend all their free time on the computer.</p>

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<p>No grandkids, then…</p>

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<p>Mathmom,
We consider the meal benefits the most important part of the compensation package. Last summer, the woman in charge of food at S1’s office made sure she ordered stuff S would eat and came around every day to make sure he’d had breakfast. Wish I knew her name so I could have sent her a thank you note!</p>

<p>He blew an interview with a competitor because he forgot to eat that day and went hypoglycemic.</p>

<p>Our loan expectation here is the subsidized Stafford limit ($19k).</p>

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<p>As far as what new bachelor’s degree graduates in computer science do and how much they are paid if they have jobs, consider the career surveys at various universities:</p>

<p><a href=“https://career.berkeley.edu/Major/Major.stm[/url]”>https://career.berkeley.edu/Major/Major.stm&lt;/a&gt;
[Graduate</a> Status Survey index - Career Services - Cal Poly](<a href=“http://www.careerservices.calpoly.edu/gradsurvey/]Graduate”>http://www.careerservices.calpoly.edu/gradsurvey/)
[Georgia</a> Institute of Technology :: Salary Reports](<a href=“Georgia Tech | External Redirect Landing Page”>Georgia Tech | External Redirect Landing Page)
[Graduating</a> Student Survey - MIT Careers Office](<a href=“http://web.mit.edu/career/www/infostats/graduation.html]Graduating”>http://web.mit.edu/career/www/infostats/graduation.html)
[Post-Graduation</a> Survey Results-Career and Professional Development Center - Carnegie Mellon University](<a href=“http://www.studentaffairs.cmu.edu/career/students_alumni/post-grad-survey/]Post-Graduation”>http://www.studentaffairs.cmu.edu/career/students_alumni/post-grad-survey/)
<a href=“Purdue CCO”>https://www.cco.purdue.edu/Student/PostGradData.shtml&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>Thank you for the valuable information, ucbalumus!</p>

<p>I will add a couple more:</p>

<p>RPI - <a href=“Students | Career and Professional Development”>Students | Career and Professional Development;

<p>RIT - [Students</a> - Salary Data | Office of Co-op and Career Services](<a href=“http://www.rit.edu/emcs/oce/students/salary]Students”>http://www.rit.edu/emcs/oce/students/salary)</p>

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<p>I haven’t looked at all of those links in the two posts above this, but I think the RIT info on computer science helps us remember warnings about the limits of small data sets. Unless we are all ready to believe that getting a master’s degree reduces earnings potential!</p>

<p>Sorry, the table does not reproduce well–what it shows is that max. salary offer for a BS in computer science is 90K, but max for MS in computer science is 85K. Probably not a big MS group.</p>

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<p>The RIT MS CS median is higher than the RIT BS CS median, though.</p>

<p>Perhaps there should be a sticky thread in the career section of these forums with links to these university career surveys. That can help with common questions about “how are job and career opportunities with _____ major?”.</p>