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The Truth About 2015 Life at Stanford
“It’s not that the school’s computer-science program is superior to those at, say, Carnegie Mellon, MIT, or Waterloo. It’s the school’s proximity to the industry. Stanford is blocks from where Google CEO Larry Page lives and Steve Jobs died.”
Stanford is by far the place to go to school if you are looking to get paid above the national average entry level salary. The average starting pay for a Stanford graduate with a computer-science degree is $90,000, according to PayScale, a company that aggregates salary data. That’s more than the median salary for a person with a bachelor’s degree and 20 years of professional work experience — and well above $52,000, the median household income in the US. For Stanford grads the money can be even bigger.
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