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This is why I love Cal. They are brutally honest with you. They don't promise you $60,000 starting salaries or 100% acceptance rates to grad/professional schools. They don't need your stinkin' $ if you want to take it somewhere else!
Grads are doing everything from being a clerk at 24 hour fitness (Asian Studies) to being an investment banking analyst at Goldman Sachs (English).
This is why I love Cal. They are brutally honest with you. They don't promise you $60,000 starting salaries or 100% acceptance rates to grad/professional schools. They don't need your stinkin' $ if you want to take it somewhere else!
Grads are doing everything from being a clerk at 24 hour fitness (Asian Studies) to being an investment banking analyst at Goldman Sachs (English).
Thank you so much I love when people post good resources like that. rep'd
Don't you wish more schools post accurate data like this than maybe five jobs for each major program within a school.
Berkeley has always had a very 'harsh, based in reality' attitude towards its students. They don't give you any disillusionment that a degree from there by itself means anything. UCLA and UCSD are the same.
Private schools and lesser state schools can't do that because they need to draw students and improve their reputation and/or try and keep their best state students.
The Ivies can't do that because representing that 'screw ups' who work at Abercrombie and Fitch with a Columbia degree would taint their reputation in their competition with each other.
But Berkeley has an established rep and is dirt cheap in state, and the State of California is a gold mine for bright, motivated minds. So, they are able to keep many of the state's top students. And they know they will never be able to fully compete with the Ivies because they are limited as a state school. So, why bother?
They just give it to you straight up.
Can you imagine NYU posting something similar?
"Yea, our past students have dropped 160K on an education here and are working at Enterprise rent a car. That could be you too!"
I wish that info would have existed when I went to their sister school in the 90's. If I would have had parents to talk to or seen that data I would have never got a degree in Sociology. But then again if you told me I had to major in Econ maybe I would have quit?
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I have a BA in Geography and make $14 an hour. I work with a guy with a fancy engineering degree from the University of Louisville and a bunch of people with 2 yr CAD (Computer Aided Design) degrees. We recently hired several high school graduates who took GIS and CAD in their senior year.
I was told employers care about what on campus activities you were in. Nope. They care a little about GPA and a LOT about SKILLS. I only took 2 classes that taught my SKILLS (Geographic Information Systems) and that's the only reason I got my job
I have a BA in Geography and make $14 an hour. I work with a guy with a fancy engineering degree from the University of Louisville and a bunch of people with 2 yr CAD (Computer Aided Design) degrees. We recently hired several high school graduates who took GIS and CAD in their senior year.
I was told employers care about what on campus activities you were in. Nope. They care a little about GPA and a LOT about SKILLS. I only took 2 classes that taught my SKILLS (Geographic Information Systems) and that's the only reason I got my job
+1 on skills! I only took 1 GIS course in college, majoring in geology with an econ minor, and that skill certainly got me in the door for my current job as not many in the consulting firm knew digital mapping. Part of what I do involves making maps and resource assessments for emerging oil and gas resources here in the US and internationally, it's a blast!
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