Average salaries of Ivy League grads

[TakeNoPrisoners]

You can easily move out on your own on $40k a year.

$40k year is nothing.

/ATOT

 

[Bignate603]

Residency is between 3-6 years for most people. I was done in 4 (Anesthesia). Wife was done in 5 (internal medicine + Rheumatology)

So 4 years for your bachelor's, 4 years for med school, then 3 to 6 years for residency. The total ranges from 11 to 14 years. Comparing that to what people make with a bachelor's isn't really relevant.

 

[dank69]

average includes philosophy and basket weaving majors

 

[brianmanahan]

like most people here, i make 250$k

 

[dank69]

like most people here, i make 250$k

That is a good salary for flipping burgers. :thumbsup:

 

[Rumpltzer]

I know and Ivy League grad. She's very proud of the fact; goes to Ivy League "networking" events. Her parents paid her way. Drives around in a cute Mercedes convertible coupe. She majored in literature. She works at a car rental counter. She's pretty hot. Her writing sucks; trite gibberish.

 

[alkemyst]

Average salary 5 years after graduation at my alma mater is like 200K.

I'd say there was some heavy skewing in that.

edit: poster was only counting one degree program, so fucking fail.

 

[amdhunter]

We should open an ATOT University. Our grads would make no less than 100k per year - and we'd still laugh at them.

 

[mikelish]

many Ivy League students go onto graduate school where they are paid $24k a year while they work on their Ph.D

take them out of the equation and the averages go way up

 

[Icepick]

F ivy league grads! George W. Bush was an ivy league grad and he didn't even know where Afganistan is. I don't know what the standards are at his alma matter.

 

[IndyColtsFan]

F ivy league grads! George W. Bush was an ivy league grad and he didn't even know where Afganistan is. I don't know what the standards are at his alma matter.

The standards seem to be "who mommy and daddy know." Not impressed with the Ivy League based on grads I've seen/known.

 

[Gibson486]

F ivy league grads! George W. Bush was an ivy league grad and he didn't even know where Afganistan is. I don't know what the standards are at his alma matter.

That works for everything, not just schools. As long as you have the connections, it's easy to bypass the rules.

 

[JS80]

My sister is going to U Penn. Good for her.

What major?

 

[nick1985]

What major?

She is going into their Vet program.

 

[thraashman]

I recently graduated from a top 10 school (as ranked by US News), and I know that those are low. The standard salary offer for almost every job was $70,000 (before bonuses). Anything lower was pretty much scoffed at. As long as you graduated in the top half of your class, even with a liberal arts degree, you could find one of these jobs. However, some people purposely picked lower-paying industries, e.g. teaching or research assistant jobs, which is probably why the averages are lower.

On the other hand, pretty much every competent computer science major that I knew had offers of $80,000+. So to make your comparison fair, you would have to be looking at the average engineering salaries, which are significantly higher than those figures listed above.

You would hardly feel the recession at these institutions.

I don't know what market you're in, but in Atlanta where I'm at if you ask for $80k with a degree but no relevant job experience, you would get laughed at. Doesn't matter what school you graduate from or what your GPA was.

 

[Fenixgoon]

You can easily move out on your own on $40k a year.

all depends on location. $40k in cali might be tough, $40k in the middle of nowhere could have you living like a king.

i'd say i'm doing pretty damn well, although i have a lot of monthly costs that eat away at my salary more than i'd like (10% to retirement, car + rent + motorcycle + student loans is a large chunk right there)

that being said, i am paying back my student loans 2.5x faster than needed....my hope is that in another 2 years i'll have the bike and student loans paid off...possibly even the car depending on raises. i'd like to be in a position to consider buying a house, too.


fwiw i gross $67k/year, and clear about $36k after taxes and retirement (retirement is pre-tax)

 

[TheVrolok]

She is going into their Vet program.

Great program, and highly highly competitive from what I remember. She's gotta be a smart cookie. I met some of the Vet students/professors when I was doing research at UPenn/HUP. They were all really good people. :thumbsup:

 

[nick1985]

Great program, and highly highly competitive from what I remember. She's gotta be a smart cookie. I met some of the Vet students/professors when I was doing research at UPenn/HUP. They were all really good people. :thumbsup:

Yes, extremely highly competitive. She told me how many applied and how many got in, I forget the numbers but I remember being astonished. She is definitely smart, I wish I was half as smart as her. lol

 

[chalmers]

Money is everything on a nerd website because most of the users don't have much else to be proud about.

Brag (lie) away!

 

[IndyColtsFan]

Yes, extremely highly competitive. She told me how many applied and how many got in, I forget the numbers but I remember being astonished. She is definitely smart, I wish I was half as smart as her. lol

Pics?


Sorry, I had to uphold the rule here at AT. :awe:

 

[nick1985]

Pics?


Sorry, I had to uphold the rule here at AT. :awe:

lol, no way.

 

[JS80]

lol, no way.

post a pic, then post a pic with you and your rifles

 

[CountZero]

I have worked with a few during coops. None of them had anything below a masters and they were pretty high up there in terms of position or they were enjoying the benefits of being a highly paid contractor. I'd imagine at least 70K is the norm for an MIT grad with a B.S. if you can find one with just a B.S. Lots of MIT grads end up working for Lincoln Lab.

I'd bet it is higher than that for the ones that go straight to industry. I interviewed at a research lab that had a chart that laid out school vs. starting salary, non-negotiable and MIT was like 95k for a BSEE. I think 70k is probably only a little higher than average for all BSEE starting salaries in industry (don't know the others so can't comment). And of course these salary numbers get skewed by location since EE, CE and CS are probably heavily represented in the bay area which has a huge CoL.

 

[Oil]

What is the average starting salary for engineering ivy league grads?

 

[alkemyst]

I don't know what market you're in, but in Atlanta where I'm at if you ask for $80k with a degree but no relevant job experience, you would get laughed at. Doesn't matter what school you graduate from or what your GPA was.

I am willing to bet in Atlanta with a Cisco certification that you can speak to, you can secure close to $80k without much experience.

They are really short on knowledgable networkers there.