re: Best paying degrees/colleges

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Guess who has a degree from Dwight Look.

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So you're buying the beer, right?

Congrats! It wasn't called that when I was in school but I'm pretty damn sure a 2LT's salary, engineering degree or not, would not have made that list. Here's a weird one for you: I could not qualify for a credit card. I know that seems impossible to believe in 2014, but it's the truth. Different times.

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Because most HS Counselors in Alabama will tell you UA is watering down their admission and curriculum in order to meet the Pres. goal of enrollment. There are alum who are very concerned about the direction the administration is taking the last 4-5 years.

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You seriously are using ancedotal counseiling bs to defend your viewpoint? Most guidance councelors I've met were definitely not the sharpest people. In fact, I would argue the ones that I've met were incredibly stupid and naive. They only exist anymore to help struggling students and emotionally disturbed ones. The internet replaced the college advice portion of their job duty imo.
What alumni? All of the alumni I know are ecstatic about UA. Also, no one is getting scholarships for 22 ACT's...
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The second ranking link supports the first one, as it also shows that UA's business school beats Auburn's as well. Even harder to argue that both recent Alabama business and engineering grads just report false information/report more as a % group than Auburn's. That's what? 2-3K grads that could probably answer the survey. Around a 30 % respondent rate would be about 900 students answering. Those 900 students that respond from Alabama just happen to collectively make more money than the 900 or so from Auburn? They just happen to collectively lie more as a group of 900? They just happen to be the 900 students from Bama that got high paying jobs and the 900 students from Auburn just happen to be the ones who got low paying jobs?
Why don't you go have a talk with your guidance counselor and break out a calculator and philosophy book and explain this conundrum to me.
Also, Alabama tax payers aren't paying for the OOS scholarships. That all comes from private donations. Getting more educated people to live in the state of Alabama is serving the state of Alabama. Many students from OOS do stay in state for jobs from my own experience. More have to be staying than if Alabama didn't have any OOS at all.

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The second link supports the first one, as it also shows that UA's business school beats Auburn's as well.

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wha....

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. Even harder to argue that both recent Alabama business and engineering grads just report false information/report more as a % group than Auburn's. That's what? 2-3K grads that could probably answer the survey. Around a 30 % respondent rate would be about 900 students answering. Those 900 students that respond from Alabama just happen to collectively make more money than the 900 or so from Auburn? They just happen to collectively lie more as a group of 900? They just happen to be the 900 students from Bama that got high paying jobs and the 900 students from Auburn just happened to be the ones who got low paying jobs?

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if you are referring to the OP

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Are you slow?

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So your answer? Are you saying that as your retort for his discrediting the ranking in the OP?

Bama's Business school is definitely better than Auburn's. Auburn is an outstanding school to attend if you want to be a Park Ranger or a contributing member of the 4-H club. Bama produces lawyers, CPAs and doctors.

Okay I just wanted to point out your flawed thinking, I guess it is apparently your entire scope of knowledge on the subject. Carry on with your delusions.

Have you actually read any of the links youve posted in this thread and what youve typed in conjunction?

This may be true historically but Auburn has closed the gap (almost completely) on Alabama in those areas just as Alabama has closed the gap on Auburn in engineering.

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#7 tamu engineering

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Both are rankings of colleges and their recent grad salaries. Auburn may or may not have been in the original ranking (I looked on the website they used in the original ranking and data for Auburn did exist so I assume they are below the 50 reported). Even if not, the second link supports the notion that Alabama recent grads are doing quite well for themselves and are beating out other SEC schools (well at least Auburn, since ya'll are the ones that seem so rustled over this). How is this hard for you to follow? The second one supports that Alabama's engineering grads are doing well for themselves. In addition, it shows that its business grads (typically lower salaries than engineering except from elite private institution as shown in the first link) are also outperforming its peers (once again, Auburn). I then broke down the numbers from the second link to show how stupid it is to say that the statistics don't mean anything because they are self reported.

The other 2 links are to show that scholarships aren't given for 22 ACT scores.

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You seriously are using ancedotal counseiling bs to defend your viewpoint? Most guidance councelors I've met were definitely not the sharpest people. In fact, I would argue the ones that I've met were incredibly stupid and naive. They only exist anymore to help struggling students and emotionally disturbed ones. The internet replaced the college advice portion of their job duty imo.
What alumni? All of the alumni I know are ecstatic about UA. Also, no one is getting scholarships for 22 ACT's...
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The second ranking link supports the first one, as it also shows that UA's business school beats Auburn's as well. Even harder to argue that both recent Alabama business and engineering grads just report false information/report more as a % group than Auburn's. That's what? 2-3K grads that could probably answer the survey. Around a 30 % respondent rate would be about 900 students answering. Those 900 students that respond from Alabama just happen to collectively make more money than the 900 or so from Auburn? They just happen to collectively lie more as a group of 900? They just happen to be the 900 students from Bama that got high paying jobs and the 900 students from Auburn just happen to be the ones who got low paying jobs?
Why don't you go have a talk with your guidance counselor and break out a calculator and philosophy book and explain this conundrum to me.
Also, Alabama tax payers aren't paying for the OOS scholarships. That all comes from private donations. Getting more educated people to live in the state of Alabama is serving the state of Alabama. Many students from OOS do stay in state for jobs from my own experience. More have to be staying than if Alabama didn't have any OOS at all.

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What is on the website is not what the school is dishing out. Attack Councelors all you want, but they are the first line between the Universities and the High Schools. It is obvious you do not have any children that are college age, because you have no idea how the system works.

You also missed the point on the reponse rates, some schools actively pursue those numbers in order to use them for PR Purposes. Other schools do not report or under-report those numbers, because they deem them unimportant.

Geting "more educated people to live in Alabama" for their 4 years of undergrad only serves the economy of Tuscaloosa. After that they go home or to a large city to work.