The survey is interesting, but in the end has major holes. It's interesting to compare these starting salary figures from this report to the starting salary figures from the BW rankings tables. Some schools like Stanford apparently only get $3K extra in total compensation relative to the ranking data, while schools like Wharton are >$20K/year more. I just don't get it...there's clearly some discrepencies between the data sets, which is discouraging, as the data is put out by the same source.
Moreover, this data is completely different than Forbes' 5 year data. Of course the data sets are generated via different means, but the point is that these types of surveys are quite innaccurate, or at a minimum, have a very high standard deviation. Here's a link to the recent Forbes data (well, kind of recent).
https://www.forbes.com/lists/2007/95/lea ... _Rank.htmlForbes claims that at the 5 year mark, graduates from Stanford and Harvard are at $200k in total compensation, whereas the stats from BW are wildly lower (H=150K, S=139K). The numbers from Forbes seem to make more sense to me, but perhaps I'm being optimistic.