Stanford actually beat Texas

[austintex]

At least, if you go by average salary of graduates...

payscale

They beat UT-Arlington in the Elite 8, but Arlington had an easy draw in the first few rounds..

 

[Bookman]

I highly doubt that those are the actual median salaries.

 

[austintex]

Yeah, it's not exactly scientific:

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[blonthang]

Note that they select exes who are "5 to 15 years into their careers" which would exclude Kevin Durant, Boobie Gibson, and LaMarcus Aldridge.

Recalculate in about 4 years and watch this number change significantly.

A few years ago, someone, probably on a federal grant, evaluated average salaries of various departments at various schools around the country.

It was determined that UNC's Sociology Department had one of the highest overall average salary rankings in the country.

It is apparently a fairly small (as measured by annual graduates) department.

One graduate is Michael Jordan.



P.S., if I read the quote above correctly, the analysis is based on "employees in our database" suggesting they only have available graduates of the various schools who for some reason are in an employment search data base.

I'm guessing, just guessing here, that NBA stars don't wind up in a career search data base while they are still playing in the league.

 

[forshizzzle]

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[VinceYoungScores]

They are also using not mean, but median salaries. So, the amount that Jordan or Tiger makes doesn't really factor in anymore than if they made, say, 300K.

 

[Eating Club]

Texas Exes have some of the highest salaries in the country, especially among public schools.

 

[Texas Wahoo]

It is certainly not scientific at all, but most of the schools are right about where I thought they would be relative to each other.

 

[HuskerNKingwood]

I thought there was going to be a link to TexAgs from this thread. How wrong I was.

 

[converse]

I think this is pretty interesting stuff. I'm not so concerned about people inflating their reported salaries (because everyone would do it). And the mean vs. median thing - I think they did the right thing going with the median.

When I look at the results, what really stands out to me is that I don't think they took cost of living into account (not that you probably could). If (and I don't know that this is true) college graduates usually live in the same general geography as their school, then comparing a school like Stanford or UCLA to a school like Texas or Vanderbilt is a bit wonky. With the exception of Notre Dame, the top schools are in very expensive-to-live areas (Stanford, USC, UCLA and Georgetown).

I guess Duke is a bit of an outlier as well.

All-in-all, I think they did a pretty good job at putting this together.

Hook'em

 

[austintex]

Everyone at Duke is from New York-New Jersey, and they all move back there when they graduate ...

 

[AstroVol]

Wow, a 16-seed making it to the Elite Eight?

 

[bozo_casanova]

Stanford salaries are driven in many cases by people sticking around the Bay area. I'd be curious to see where people land if you adjusted for cost of living based on geographic distribution of grads.

 

[Statalyzer]

Good points by converse and bozo on cost of living.

 

[Zuerst]

I'm sure our annual combined salary trumps every single university out there.