re: Wages out of College per SEC Schools:

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Across the SEC:

Early Career Earnings (graduates who received a bachelor’s degree):

1. Vanderbilt University* – $64,400 (private university)
2. Texas A&M University – $66,600
3. University of Florida – $55,800
4. LSU – $54,800
5(t). Auburn University – $54,400
5(t). University of Georgia – $54,400
7. University of Arkansas – $52,500
8(t). University of Missouri – $52,300
8(t). University of Alabama – $52,300
10. University of Kentucky – $51,700
11(t.). Mississippi State University – $51,100
11(t). University of Tennessee – $51,100
13. University of South Carolina – $50,300
14. University of Mississippi – $48,500

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If most Alabama grads end up working in Birmingham and most UGA grads end up in Atlanta...

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GT Tiger's list is a lot more up to date, yours is five years old.

Nonetheless, I doubt Alabama will ever be near the top. One of the missions of our university is to provide comprehensive majors that is a bit more broad spectrum than many others.

For example - Auburn is known for putting out a LOT of engineers. Good on them. I work with a bunch. Alabama is known to put out a lot of communications majors, nurses, and educators. Also fine folks. But that's is an entirely different class of earnings power. Both serve the state well. Both have much overlap in their program offerings. I graduated from Alabama with a physics degree. But there sure wasn't many of us in the program.

As a Bama grad, I am doing well and frankly better than I ever thought I might. I don't get too concerned about such lists because when it comes to starting salary and mid-career pay, it is so much more about YOU than your school. At one point in my career, I was a technical recruiter. People I prepped for interviews consistently got offered more money starting new jobs.

It is what it is. There is no SEC school for which a motivated graduate cannot attend, do well, and make a great wage.

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