Many schools publish public salary statistics for the graduates of last year. Some reports are better than others, but I’ve generally found good information that way. Just google "[school] salary statistics". For example, here's a pdf for Carnegie Mellon School of Computer science, which says last year there was a mean salary of $75k (which happens to be high compared to other universities I've seen): http://www.studentaffairs.cmu.edu/career/students_alumni/pos...