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re: Which school in the SEC would you send your children?
Posted on 7/5/12 at 9:20 am to Ball Gravy
Posted on 7/5/12 at 9:20 am to Ball Gravy
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Here's another big stat....
"Top Public Colleges for Getting Rich" -- A&M is #9 in the country, #1 in Texas and #1 in the SEC. Texas is #16 in the country. The schools ranked in front of A&M and Texas are mainly California schools (and U of Illinois) and if you adjust their salaries for Cost of Living, we vault up the polls, but that convolutes the argument so I'll just use hard salaries. We rank ahead of UNC, Virginia, Michigan and Texas.
No other SEC schools were top 25.
No. 9: Texas A&M University
Experience
Median Salary
0 to 5 years
$49,700
10 to 20 years
$96,100
Top Earners*
$171,000
*Ten percent of grads with 10 to 20 years experience earn more than this amount.
Source: PayScale.com
Can't this be largely attributed to you having a much higher % of students majoring in engineering? Seeing how the average starting salary of just about every engineering major is over 50k/year, this is obviously going to skew the numbers more.
What I would be more interested in is the started salary of strictly engineering majors and how this compares to engineering majors from other schools. I don't think you are going to see that much of a difference.
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Posted on 7/5/12 at 9:29 am to bpfergu
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What I would be more interested in is the started salary of strictly engineering majors and how this compares to engineering majors from other schools. I don't think you are going to see that much of a difference.
I graduated from Alabama in civil engineering in 2010. I'm making around 48k, but I'm working for the ALDOT. Probably would have gotten more if I went private.
Posted on 7/5/12 at 9:32 am to bpfergu
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Can't this be largely attributed to you having a much higher % of students majoring in engineering? Seeing how the average starting salary of just about every engineering major is over 50k/year, this is obviously going to skew the numbers more.
Myth. Only 13% of students at A&M major in Engineering. That's roughly 5K undergrads. As opposed to 34% that are Business or Interdisciplinary Studies.
I do know our Petrol Eng, Elect Eng, Mech Eng and Aerospace Eng do very very well with Fluor, BP, Exxon, Shell, Lockheed Martin, Bechtel, Boeing and the like.
Posted on 7/5/12 at 11:57 am to bpfergu
I have no idea what is usual for engineers but 3 girls I know graduated in ChemE from LSU in May 2011 and they all make 80k now. That sounds pretty good to me 
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