/sci/ - Science & Math

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Also from the article "we controlled for numerous other factors that might influence postgraduation earnings, such as family income, race/ethnicity, gender, marital status, SAT score, postgraduate degree and age at graduation and more."

What they found isn't that students from worse schools earn the same as students from ivy leagues. What they found is that if the same person went to an ivy league or a state school for STEM, it wouldn't make a statistically significant difference in earnings. The people in ivy leagues are generally smarter than the people in other schools, and that is what seems to matter. Compared to liberal arts curriculums, STEM curriculums are more standardized as well.