Forbes: Students who recently graduated from Carnegie Mellon University’s School of Computer Science are making an average salary of $84,400. Engineering grads from Stanford are earning a bit less, $74,700. The third-highest salary for grads is for nursing school alumni from New York University, at $70,200.
These numbers come from a new survey released by NerdWallet, a four-year-old personal finance website based in San Francisco. NerdWallet offers price comparisons for everything from credit cards to airport parking.
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I think it is really funny that I go to a University where my friends studying Computer Science and Engineering are destined to (most likely) make A TON more money than i will, but something I always hear, that always stands true, "we are not in this for the money". which is funny because I have actually talked to friends who really are just going into their prospective fields in order to many a boat load when they grow up. I love that in the world of theatre people are involved because this is what they want to do.
I agree with Simone on this one. I think it's really important that you are passionate about your job, whatever it may be. I also think in order to be successful, you HAVE to be passionate about what you're doing. While the CMU School of Computer Science and Engineering make this list, I think what makes CMU such a great University is that everyone, whether coding or building scenery, is passionate about what they're doing. So many of my friends went to college and had no idea what they were really passionate about simply because they were so set on the idea of making a lot of money when they "grew up." Most of them are still undecided, as they are trying to figure out a major that they can stand that will lead to a profession with the big bucks. Personally, I'd so much rather be happy and not make a ton of money than be miserable and be swimming in cash. It is sad that we live in a world where wealth takes precedence over happiness.
Not too shabby CMU, it's pretty impressive that more than one of our schools in on that list. I'm not at all surprised to see that this list predicts that I will be a starving artist, (not that I mind) because like Jess and Simone, I'm reminded that i'm spending 60,000 a year on my passion, not just on something that guarantees a desk job filling out paper work and sitting in front of a computer screen under florescent lighting for eight hours a day. To be perfectly honest, I'm actually glad that theater artists, at least right out of college, don't normally tend to make a lot of money. It means that all of us are here because it's where we want to be. No parent, especially one that is willing to spend so much on tuition, wants their child to be a starving artist. Of course not everyone's parents are willing to be so supportive and a few of us are paying our own ways, but I think that's even better motivation to learn as much as we can and get as much as we can out of these four years. Congratulations to all the CS majors, I'm still glad I'm not you.
A large reason why I came to this school over others was that I would be surrounded by people doing engineering and getting degrees that are...well..on this list. I would like to know if the trend continues, in that how do we rank among other similar programs? I am inclined to believe that if you did an analysis like this for all Drama depts (rather than all schools) we would be up there. Good for CMU, getting on the list several times.
We're Number One, and 6, 7 , 13, and 15! Originally I was enrolled at CMU as a mathematics major (which is the 6). I didn't leave because I couldn't do it, I left because it was miserable. I understand why people deem it worth it, to trade loving your job for boatloads of money. However I am much happier now, and also not to worried about my future. While the Drama program is not on the list,from what I hear CMU grads here tend to do quite well. (I also just went back and checked Architecture and Design includes us so we are part of the average we just don't get our own category) It may not be immediate but I feel a degree in theater from CMU safely secures a good future (at least in tech I have no idea about actors). I am so proud to go to a school like this where everyone succeeds.
I have to agree with people here. I have to have a job i'm passionate about and makes me fulfilled and happy. I really don't care about how much money I make. I would really like to see where the school of drama would come in on this list or how we do on average per year.
I think CMU is all over that list because they were one of the schools who actually 1. gave salary information and 2. had it documented well. Nevertheless, I think that it's safe to say that most students who study sciences or computer studies at well known universities will make a pretty good salary once they get into the right companies or started their own. I'm happy to be passionate about what I do, but I also intend to make money doing what I'm passionate about. I don't really have any interest in being a struggling artist or else I wouldn't have invested in a Masters degree program or at a fairly expensive university such as CMU. You can make a good salary in the entertainment industry, you just have to work in the right areas.
I agree with Jamila - there seem to be some large competitors missing from this list, and some large holes of information. It would be interesting for CMU students to see an article with the information collected by the job center documenting each college's average salary, juxtaposed with the comparison to other Universities.
Somehow I find it hard to believe that CMU Design is on the top 25 of the entire country. Though, I'm sure this article made some parents sleep better through the night.
Additionally, I'd like to take a look at the student loan rates. Yes, these graduates may have large salaries, but they might still be hemorrhaging from the massive loans that they are still paying for years and years.
Is Ms. Adams trying to depress me? Is she mocking my life choices? I hope so. Because it gives me a chance to get on a soapbox for a second about the pathetically short-sights gradient with which articles like this, and maybe American culture in general, measure success. I have worked a lot of different types of jobs on my way to this school, so I can reassure my younger colleagues that rate of pay has NEVER, not even once, been a reliable measure of how good I was going to feel about a job. You take the big payoff jobs so you can do the little ones with your buddies. The environmental movement used to talk about a "triple bottom line" (they still might... are there still environmentalists?), which adds environmental cost/benefit to the traditional business ledger. I believe in looking at pay rates this way, and there is no amount of pay that can balance a ledger of misery.
Isaac is extremely right. It is silly to do something you are unhappy doing just for pay. I think CMU has an extremely strenuous program to prepare you but in a lot of cases just leaves you miserable. It isn't surprising that the degrees that are the highest earning are often considered the worst or most strenuous by students. It is sad that people are looking at things just for the money but in a lot of cases it is extremely important.
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