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Looking at that tool, though, it has some obvious problems in how they are summarizing the data. That tool only looks at salary one year out vs. total debt. That makes some professional degrees (like dentistry) look horrible when they are actually good investments, because these degrees require essentially apprenticeships (e.g. internships/residencies) where early pay is very low but subsequent pay (say for a cosmetic dentist) can be extremely high.

Fascinating!

Absolutely hilarious to see the elite schools (tried Brown, UPenn, MIT, CMU) completely blow the lesser schools (NC State, Clemson) out of the water for both lower or equal debt with higher compensation. Really puts a dent in the "it doesn't matter where you go to school for a CS degree" mentality.

Also keep in mind that elite schools have a selection bias to kids from much more affluent backgrounds. Affluent kids often have parents with friends in the industries they are entering. So take the data with a grain of salt unless they controlled for factors like that.

Really neat. Still wish I could read the article though.

Although I'll say for my university the degrees listed are not accurate.