Best paying degrees/colleges

whoop!

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and U Penn's nursing degree average pay is only $56,500? Something's not right.

I wonder what the break down looks like between all the engineering degrees.

I thought nurses make bank. around 70k or even 80k for some is my guess.

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I wonder what the break down looks like between all the engineering degrees.

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Fwiw, if i read it correct, this ranking only includes 57 total institutions or universities.

Since the schools gather the numbers from students across the board, they are arguably more reliable than the self-reported salaries that make up the database for salary site PayScale whose controversial return-on-investment research I reported on yesterday. People give their salary info to PayScale in exchange for detailed salary data collected on the site, usually because they want a new job or a raise. That self-selects for folks who are not contented with the compensation in their current jobs. NerdScholar’s data comes from new grads across the board.

This has come up before, some Universities do not survey recent grads or have a small response.

looks like recent grad salaries to me

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It is the average salary of recent grads that respond to the schools survey.

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Which is fine if you are comparing them to others that do the same and list them all. But like I said, I believe it's only out of 57 total universities or school systems, so in a list of 50, only 3 SEC schools, I'd say there might be one more in the other 7, but not likely.

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I thought nurses make bank. around 70k or even 80k for some is my guess

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The pay average is skewed some... Nurses at Metro area hospitals make a good bit more than an RN working at a small town hospital or clinic.