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Re:Do Elite Colleges Lead to Higher Salaries? Only for Some ... by arcanus on Monday February 01, 2016 @03:34PM (#11015171)
The guys working at quant funds tend to have ph.d.s, in my experience. Some are certainly from state schools (UT Austin).
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Re:Do Elite Colleges Lead to Higher Salaries? Only for Some ... by beisner on Monday February 01, 2016 @07:19PM (#11016775)
Anecdotally, I am currently an undergraduate in a top 10 CS department and I have several friends who have $160k+ job offers straight out of undergrad at quant firms.
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Re:Do Elite Colleges Lead to Higher Salaries? Only for Some ... by chlee on Tuesday February 02, 2016 @01:56AM (#11017980)
UT Austin has a top 10 CS program.

It's just below MIT/CMU/Stanford/Berkley. Typically just as well regarded as UW/Cornell/Princeton/UIUC/Georgia Tech/Caltech.

Dijkstra used to be the department chair in the 80s and early 90s.

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Re:Do Elite Colleges Lead to Higher Salaries? Only for Some ... by is_it_worth_it_ on Monday February 01, 2016 @03:43PM (#11015241)
Right, but a phd is a different case than a bachelors. UT Austin is also a solid school.
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