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I was able to find this site that compares average income by where students went to college.

CSU Stanislaus: $47,000 (early career), $90,300 (mid career) MIT: $81,500 (early career), $147,000 (mid career)

Early career is 0-5 years experience. Mid career is 10+ years experience.

https://www.payscale.com/college-salary-report/bachelors?pag...

Obviously, we can't say that prestige of college and income are causal but the correlation is definitely there.

In order to establish some degree of causality we would have to look only at the population of students accepted to both schools. That way you're starting from a comparable baseline.

Also you'd have to control for major. MIT produces a lot of people working in technical fields with a higher average income. Cal State awards a broader range of degrees.

Here is one only for computer science. https://www.payscale.com/college-salary-report/best-schools-...

Meh, I’m making more at mid career than the equivalent MIT grad, and I went to a flyover state university. Don’t sweat it. Just get good at what you like to do and the money will come naturally.

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