<p>Sakky, what about salary trends after graduation? I think elite schools' engineer gets the better.</p>
<p>According to UIUC's data,
<a href="http://www.ge.uiuc.edu/placement/10yrrespsal.html%5B/url%5D">http://www.ge.uiuc.edu/placement/10yrrespsal.html</a></p>
<p>The average salary for a 10 year alum from UIUC's Eng school is about 78,000</p>
<p>According to Univ Penn's data
<a href="http://www.vpul.upenn.edu/careerservices/seas/10-yrNEW.pdf%5B/url%5D">http://www.vpul.upenn.edu/careerservices/seas/10-yrNEW.pdf</a></p>
<p>The average salary for a 10 year alum from Penn's SEAS is 101,000. Furthermore, the 101k figure is for a class that graduated earlier than the class from UIUC. At that time, Penn was also the least selective Ivy league unlike how it is today.</p>
<p>So according to those two data, there is a difference in the overall schol salary of the schools from which you graduated in the long run. This is also despite the fact that according to USNEWS, UIUC's engineering program is much better than Penn's. I would assume that the schools you listed would have lower long-run salary figures than that of UIUC.</p>
<p>Granted, there's the question of whether a person who got into MIT and went to a non-name engineering school would've done as well, but that's an entirely different question.</p>
<p>Justin, the fact that you graduated from a "no-name" school and got a decent job is worthy of congratulation. But in the overall picture, I don't think we can rely on specific cases. There are even Harvard MBAs who graduate unemployed.</p>