Congrats FourDays! Go squeeze as much juice out of the experience as you can.
Congratulations. Now what’s next for your username, @FourDaystoDecide? It’s already obsolete.
The way it is set up is kind of misleading, but what you are looking at is an alternative sort of all the Tufts related salary entries. Since Payscale added grad school related data this year, the sort you are looking at bears no relation to the undergrad only sort in the URL I included.
I’m not sure why they used that particular sort of the salary data (i.e. by job) as the default when you click on the name of the school. It seems to be the least useful way to sort the data because people describe their jobs in so many different ways that there are only a small number of jobs that have the same description.
There are 15 different ways of sorting the salary data on the page you are looking at. If you click around all the other alternative views (including the “more” tab), it starts to make sense.
In general, I like the notion that Payscale seems to be moving toward the idea of an interactive database, but the user interface needs some fine tuning and hopefully the database will continue to grow.
If you look at the description of the methodology, Payscale does attempt to do a statistical validity test (that is why small schools may drop out of either the overall rank or the subject rank in a given year). They also make an estimate of the range of uncertainty of the data.