[igillis]

What I take away from these results on first glance is that employers tend to value an instilled work ethic, as evidenced by the (to me) surprisingly high rankings of schools like GaTech, Johns Hopkins, Harvey Mudd and CMU.

[nuromancer]

How do you find CMU to be a 'surprisingly high ranked school'?

http://grad-schools.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-gradu...

[igillis]

Mostly I felt the non-SCS schools were ranked surprisingly high. (disclaimer, I'm currently a rising senior at CMU SCS, didn't want to hurt any H&SS kids' feelings :p)

[cschmidt]

Those are 4 top notch engineering schools. Why is it a surprise that they would be popular with employers. (Disclosure: I'm a CMU alum.)

[msellout]

GaTech ranks very high (inter)nationally in most engineering disciplines. Resulting salaries are not surprising.