<p>These indicate that UT Austin has a stronger entering class by both test scores and high school class rank:
<a href=“http://www.collegedata.com/cs/data/college/college_pg02_tmpl.jhtml?schoolId=759”>http://www.collegedata.com/cs/data/college/college_pg02_tmpl.jhtml?schoolId=759</a>
<a href=“http://www.collegedata.com/cs/data/college/college_pg02_tmpl.jhtml?schoolId=788”>http://www.collegedata.com/cs/data/college/college_pg02_tmpl.jhtml?schoolId=788</a></p>
<p>The common data sets of the two schools given the 14% and 12% engineering bachelor’s degree numbers. If the 20% and 14% numbers are for students enrolled, that may mean that a greater percentage of Texas A&M frosh engineering students change out before graduating. Indeed, <a href=“http://profiles.asee.org/profiles/6086/screen/20”>http://profiles.asee.org/profiles/6086/screen/20</a> and <a href=“http://profiles.asee.org/profiles/6078/screen/20”>http://profiles.asee.org/profiles/6078/screen/20</a> indicate that frosh-soph engineering attrition is about 30% at Texas A&M, but only about 8% at UT Austin.</p>
<p>But also remember that long term surveys of career, pay levels, etc. are sampling graduates from years or decades ago. For a given college, things like selectivity, mix of majors, curricular offerings, etc. could have changed considerably over time. So sampling mid-career people may be showing things relating to characteristics of their colleges that are very different now.</p>