At age 65, the Median GT Grad has....

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$3.07M more than a South Carolina Grad

$2.96M more than a FSU Grad

$2.64M more than a Tennessee Grad

$2.54M more than an Alabama Grad

$2.18M more than an Auburn Grad

$2.13M more than a LSU Grad

$1.92M more than a UGA Grad

$1.90M more than a Clemson Grad

$1.59M more than a Miami Grad

$1.36M more than a Florida Grad

Based on median salaries from age 22-65 from payscale.com with a 5% annual rate of return applied to excess salary
 
Good to know...but do you always make yourself feel better comparing GT to the bottom of the academic barrel? :laugher::laugher:

hmmm not one of those schools is like us? And, everyone of those schools is better than us in athletics specifically football.

How do we do when compared to:

Wake
BC
North Carolina
UVA
Duke
Vanderbilt
 
33jacket said:
Good to know...but do you always make yourself feel better comparing GT to the bottom of the academic barrel? :laugher::laugher:

hmmm not one of those schools is like us? And, everyone of those schools is better than us in athletics specifically football.

How do we do when compared to:

Wake
BC
North Carolina
UVA
Duke
Vanderbilt
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Please tell me by what objective measure South Carolina, Alabama, Clemson, or Miami are 'better than us in athletics specifically football' ?
 
If a player is looking at Wake, Duke, Vandy, UVA, UNC, etc..., they already appreciate the value of a good education, but a lot of kids undervalue academics when choosing a school. The schools I listed above like to throw a Calc book in front of them to scare them away from GT so I thought I would show them the counterpoint.
 
most GT grads have different skill sets and different career interests than most GT football grads, so the meridian GT grad salaries will not apply to most football players.
 
cyptomcat said:
most GT grads have different skill sets and different career interests than most GT football grads, so the meridian GT grad salaries will not apply to most football players.
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Considering the network available to them, I'd say GT football players who have graduated mostly end up on the sunnyside of the meridian(sic).
 
That makes perfect sense. Engineers make good money, and GT doesn't graduate students that become teachers and social workers like those other schools do.

However, if you look just at the number of people with high net worth who graduated from your group of 11 schools mentioned, those other schools will more than likely have significantly more than GT, based on sheer volume of graduates from those other schools.

In other words, those other schools will probably have a larger volume of wealthy graduates because they graduate a significantly higher volume of students, many who become attorneys, doctors, bankers, business leaders.

But those other schools also graduate the school teachers and social workers, and there's nothing wrong with that. It just brings down the median and average for those other schools.
 
sfalco said:
But those other schools also graduate the school teachers and social workers, and there's nothing wrong with that. It just brings down the median and average for those other schools.
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Yeah, but it's not like we are devoid of low income graduates. We have civil engineers.
 
midatlantech said:
cat, are you 33jacket in disguise?
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there have been people from ST who have met me when I was giving away student tickets for the UGA game.

I don't agree with 33jacket's note anyway, the schools he has listed don't have the football potential, history and pride GT has.
 
TIAR said:
Please tell me by what objective measure South Carolina, Alabama, Clemson, or Miami are 'better than us in athletics specifically football' ?
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do i really have to go into why alabama, miami are better than us? REALLY?

lets just look at the past 15 years hoss. No one is talking about this year. Look at the players in the NFL, the national titles (total and recent) and the conf championships. You have to be kidding if you think GT is a better football program than either alabama or miami.

Clemson is better than us today, and is on par with us the last ten years

South Carolina....isn't....but that is the ONLY school
 
sfalco said:
That makes perfect sense. Engineers make good money, and GT doesn't graduate students that become teachers and social workers like those other schools do.

However, if you look just at the number of people with high net worth who graduated from your group of 11 schools mentioned, those other schools will more than likely have significantly more than GT, based on sheer volume of graduates from those other schools.

In other words, those other schools will probably have a larger volume of wealthy graduates because they graduate a significantly higher volume of students, many who become attorneys, doctors, bankers, business leaders.

But those other schools also graduate the school teachers and social workers, and there's nothing wrong with that. It just brings down the median and average for those other schools.
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Got any data to prove that theory? Don't you realize that Tech grads also become attorneys, doctors and business leaders? Most engineers don't stay engineers their whole careers.
 
I imagine that college dropouts are more wealthy than GT grads--in 2007, 3 of the top 6 billionaires were college dropouts (Gates, Adelson, Ellison) and the other 3 went to liberal arts schools (Buffett - Univ of Nebraska, Brin - Univ of Maryland, Page - Univ of Michigan) Forbes looked at which colleges had the richest grads (http://www.forbes.com/2007/09/14/ri...cx_pw_as_0914college_slide.html?partner=msnit) MIT was first with 6 grads with average wealth of 4.8 billion, but they did not include college dropouts--which in the first 10 have 5 college dropouts, so I bet they would be first in reality. I imagine they skew the curve quite a bit--just as liberal arts degrees skew the curve the other way for non-technical schools. Looking at median salary is a nice start, but there are so many other factors to look at.
 
33jacket said:
do i really have to go into why alabama, miami are better than us? REALLY?

lets just look at the past 15 years hoss. No one is talking about this year. Look at the players in the NFL, the national titles (total and recent) and the conf championships. You have to be kidding if you think GT is a better football program than either alabama or miami.

Clemson is better than us today, and is on par with us the last ten years

South Carolina....isn't....but that is the ONLY school
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Here is a question for you - what is Alabama's record over the last 10 years?

How many losing season over the last 10 years?

GT's?

I don't think it really matters what happened 30 or 50 years ago. By that logic Army is better than FSU.

Clemson is .500 versus GT over the last 15 years or thereabouts. Heck we've even gotten to the title game of the ACC Championship and they haven't. There is no objective measure that Clemson is 'superior' to GT. On Par, sure, but not 'superior'.

But I guess since Alabama puts 50,000 in the stands for their spring game, they must be a 'better program'.
 
clapper said:
Yeah, but it's not like we are devoid of low income graduates. We have civil engineers.
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Thank you for that. But actually, as a CE, I'm making the GT graduate average for my age bracket. I'm basing this on information someone posted a couple weeks ago. Sorry, I didn't go digging for the thread.

We ain't bringing down the average. We're just riding the curve. :laugher:
 
Aren't CE salaries low due to the large number in gubermint jobs, as in DOT, environmental permitting/compliance agencies, water works, etc.
 
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