<p>Hi, I just have been seeing a lot of articles and post lately talking about how a&m grads get paid more than ut grads despite what "rankings" would have you think. I've looked into this myself and the point is often refuted by people saying that the difference between avg. Salaries is only a few thousand dollars and that the statistics are skewed based on because of factors that people ignore like gender and field of study. Which sounds reasonable and it usually does look like the demographics in these studies favor a&m. I'm not trying to make either school sound bad they're both fine institutions that produce many great graduates. It just doesn't make sense to me that a student of the same gender and field of study at a&m would make more than their counterpart at ut Austin (considering things like, only slightly, higher academic performance by admitted ut students). Though I'm aware that all of this is somewhat nebulous and rankings and test scores don't mean everything. I just wanted to know what your thoughts and experiences are. Is it just that aggies have more guys and engineers or what? Because from what I've seen when you look at more specific groups of people neither school really beats the other on avg salary.</p>
<p>I don’t know any more about it than you do, but I think your analysis is sound. Is there a way to compare petroleum engineers who graduated at the same time at UT and A&M? Comp Sci majors? I would think you should compare like vs like, not engineers vs social workers, for example. </p>