Analysis

of Starting and Mid-Career Salaries for State Schools

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-The dots represent colleges across the United States. The size of the dots represents the mid-career salary of the average graduate student, and
the darkness of the color represents the starting salary of the average graduate student.
-The sliders enable the viewer to toggle between the top 10 salary schools showing up on the map, versus the bottom 10 salary schools showing
up on the map.
-The majority of the dots appear on the west and east coasts of the country, and generally, the larger the dot, the darker it is. This shows that on
average, the higher the starting salary, the higher the mid-career salary of graduate students across the country.

Linear Scatter Logarithmic Scatter

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Mid-Career Median Salary

Mid-Career Median Salary

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$90,000 $90,000

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$70,000 $70,000

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$35,000 $40,000 $45,000 $50,000 $55,000 $35,000 $40,000 $45,000 $50,000 $55,000

Starting Median Salary Starting Median Salary

-Looking at both lines of best fit, both seem to approximate the correlation between starting and mid-career salary to the same degree of
accuracy.
-When a dot appears above or below the line of best fit, this means that the associated school either overperformed or underperformed based on
the average starting and mid-career salary of graduates across the country.
-The University of Colorado appears to be the highest overperformer, and Tarleton State University appears to be the lowest underperformer.
-The University of California Berkeley had the highest starting and mid-career salary, which indicates that UC Berkeley graduates are among the
most successful in the nation. On the other hand, Morehead State University had the lowest starting and mid-career salary, which indicates the
opposite.