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Highest-paying college majors, 5 years after graduation

16 points by ianai 3y ago

hammock 3y ago
These data are often so unrelatable. Would love to see it filtered for top 50 schools and kids with 3.0+ GPA (or some other reasonable measure of aptitude + ambition)
- codingdave 3y ago
  Sure, but if we are going to go there, lets also compare it filtered for bottom 50 schools and kids who barely graduated. And then let us look at those differences from the lens of what success was driven by the person's background, what came from their own self, and what was actually change invoked upon those lives by the school and the education it provided.
  - hammock 3y ago
    Sure. Or just let me look at the data for everyone that grew up in the same neighborhood as me
  - ianai 3y ago
    These are probably just percentiles to compare. But that’s more data than cnbc is likely to publish.
- bodiekane 3y ago
  GPA likely tracks to aptitude + ambition, but attending a "top 50 school" is mostly a function of who their parents were.
  - hammock 3y ago
    Ambition tracks to who your parents are
thebigspacefuck 3y ago
A report like this one is why I got an engineering degree. It was a good decision.
decafninja 3y ago
Finance is such a broad scope. If you tell someone that you have a job in finance, everyone thinks you’re a hotshot trader or investment banker making huge bucks. In reality, you’re more likely to be some back office operations drone. Still making decent money, but nothing spectacular. The same doesn’t apply to software engineering…yet. Outside of the Bay Area and other US tech hubs, most people just have absolutely no clue what the upper range of tech compensation is like.
nickburns 3y ago
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pfannkuchen 3y ago
Why is computer engineering consistently a bit higher than computer science? I’m confused every time I see this, and it’s consistently been like this for over a decade. If anything the parts of CE that aren’t in CS pay much worse than pure software roles, and CS seems better for pure software (or at least for the interviews).
- appplication 3y ago
  Could be as an engineering degree the alternative, non-CS engineering roles pay a bit more. So maybe a higher floor rather than a higher ceiling.
anon-sre-srm 3y ago
These numbers alone are of marginal utility. They're missing std deviation and seniority level brackets. CS probably the most individual contributor upward mobility as IC/L6+ can reach megabuck(s) per year TC. Also not mentioned is the majors most likely to get MBAs and therefore more mobile.

16 points by ianai 3y ago

These data are often so unrelatable. Would love to see it filtered for top 50 schools and kids with 3.0+ GPA (or some other reasonable measure of aptitude + ambition)

codingdave 3y ago
Sure, but if we are going to go there, lets also compare it filtered for bottom 50 schools and kids who barely graduated. And then let us look at those differences from the lens of what success was driven by the person's background, what came from their own self, and what was actually change invoked upon those lives by the school and the education it provided.
- hammock 3y ago
  Sure. Or just let me look at the data for everyone that grew up in the same neighborhood as me
- ianai 3y ago
  These are probably just percentiles to compare. But that’s more data than cnbc is likely to publish.
bodiekane 3y ago
GPA likely tracks to aptitude + ambition, but attending a "top 50 school" is mostly a function of who their parents were.
- hammock 3y ago
  Ambition tracks to who your parents are

thebigspacefuck 3y ago

A report like this one is why I got an engineering degree. It was a good decision.

decafninja 3y ago

Finance is such a broad scope. If you tell someone that you have a job in finance, everyone thinks you’re a hotshot trader or investment banker making huge bucks. In reality, you’re more likely to be some back office operations drone. Still making decent money, but nothing spectacular. The same doesn’t apply to software engineering…yet. Outside of the Bay Area and other US tech hubs, most people just have absolutely no clue what the upper range of tech compensation is like.

nickburns 3y ago

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pfannkuchen 3y ago

Why is computer engineering consistently a bit higher than computer science? I’m confused every time I see this, and it’s consistently been like this for over a decade. If anything the parts of CE that aren’t in CS pay much worse than pure software roles, and CS seems better for pure software (or at least for the interviews).

appplication 3y ago
Could be as an engineering degree the alternative, non-CS engineering roles pay a bit more. So maybe a higher floor rather than a higher ceiling.

anon-sre-srm 3y ago

These numbers alone are of marginal utility. They're missing std deviation and seniority level brackets. CS probably the most individual contributor upward mobility as IC/L6+ can reach megabuck(s) per year TC. Also not mentioned is the majors most likely to get MBAs and therefore more mobile.