<p>How much of a difference in a starting salary would you get if you went to a local state school vs. a top 10 school?</p>
<p>no difference, in most cases.</p>
<p>(CS seems to vary quite alot among different schools based on their postgraduate surveys, but for other engineerings like MechE, MatE, Civil, schools like berk, Cornell, and CalTech don’t really have that much of a higher salary than the national starting avg for those majors)</p>
<p>you can easily search for their postgraduate surveys off the net which includes median/mean/low/high starting salaries for each of those majors.</p>
<p>and even within a same school, there’s a HUGE variation among different engineering majors.</p>
<p>you can easily see this by looking over surveys for each respective majors.</p>
<p>Depends on the state school as well. If it is not a well known state school with only a regional draw, the salary will be tied to that region.</p>
<p>How’s graduate program at Arizona State University? Does it have a good chemical engineering program with good career opportunities?</p>
<p>Schools should have their salary statistics posted somewhere. I can tell you the difference in average starting salary between Michigan Tech and Michigan is about 7-8K, but if you held the caliber of student constant, the difference probably isn’t much. I would doubt more than a few thousand difference, and at that point non-quantifiable factors are probably more determinate of how much someone will make. Especially if that’s going to be 40K/year at the top-10 school vs. free or very low cost at the local school, the difference in salary just isn’t going to be a big deal.</p>
<p>I think this MAY change if you were likely going to be one of the top students at this top-10 school, and only wanted a BSE.</p>