Carnegie Mellon is OVERRATED - Here's Why

If you’re new to the channel: welcome ~ I’m Michael and I'm a rising senior at Carnegie Mellon University studying Information Systems. I make new videos every week about college and tech

Contents
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0:00 Intro
0:12 CMU Employment Report
0:43 University of Michigan Data
1:46 Tech is Merit Based
2:32 Rutgers Data
3:08 Why CMU is Overrated: My Reasons

[Bostonite]

If you remove the name Carnegie Mellon from the title and replace it with Stanford, Columbia, Chicago, Yale, UC Berkeley or Caltech, your arguments on why they are overrated may still be valid.

[CookbyWillZ]

Wish I had seen a video like this around college application time… the school you go to doesn’t matter nearly as much as the work you decide to put in

[石嘴砲]

The points you mentioned about are probably the cons of CMU, but I would say there are many other reasons that make CMU the best CS university, like academic achievement, resource available for each students, etc. It would be better to includes more aspects to support your conclusion and make it more convincing

[sel]

you make some good points!
going to a college with a recognizable name helps you pass resume screenings, but after that it's up to your coding skills

[nabi]

I graduated from CalState and I was hired along side CMU and Stanford I went for FREE ...They have HUGE debt

[owenhuang]

You make a good point! The tech industry is pretty fair when it comes to recruiting, skills and ability are more important than where you graduate from. But schools do matter when we talk about the training of soft skills, your network, and the opportunities

[sunidhipandit]

I recently got admitted into CMU for ms biotechnology and pharmaceuticals engineering so now I’m confused to what to do

[pg]

But you can't deny the halo effect of having a degree from CMU vs Rutgers in real life corporate environment especially at prestigious companies..

[lisacho]

I am applying to colleges right now, and find myself questioning my entire life. I am going into engineering (biomed or electronic) and wonder if it is the same for my major. I am coming from a competitive school, and am morally exhausted of always trying to climb to the top, of competing with the best out of the best… I am not sure that I want to keep doing things in college. My question is does this apply only to cs, or engineering as well? Thank you so much!

[savagecabbage]

This is so right! I think carnegie mellon should be removed from the title and you should just put these T20 compsci schools in general. Almost all of them fall under the same reasons.

[கோபிசுதாகர்]

i got accepted to CMU but I went to an instate state college instead (Georgia Tech).. I went for almost free, and CMU wouldve been 60k a year, so like a quarter million in debt.. It is not worth it at all .. haha im glad i made a wise financial decision

[gavinwheeler]

your reasons then would apply to all top private (or even OOS public) institutions for any CS degree, not only carnegie mellon. Besides, companies actively seek out students from carnegie mellon, it is a huge boost if you want to get those top jobs at top companies.

[adamchoe]

for computer science it helps to be in CA. Stanford, USC, Berkely, UCLA, etc.

[kolkena]

Salary data doesn't mean much if you don't control for geographic location.

$100k in the SF Bay Area is poverty wages.

$100k in Mississippi is beau coup bucks.

[johnkrygier]

But is it overrated in any other major?

[MrRiverGrove]

With all these great paying jobs why can't these people pay their loans. I've payed my student loans earning an average wage working myself to exhaustion the whole while. Something just doesn't add up.

[cdorman]

If you're not talking about how many years you're taught by grad students, the analysis is incomplete. On this metric, I wouldn't put Harvard and Berkeley in the same bin as CMU and Stanford. When students pay a lot of money, some will raise a real fuss if they're being taught by grad students all the way up through ML. So that steep tuition bill does mean something--the school has to do things to justify it. Reification with median starting salary needs to be qualified with how many dropped out of their intended major or learned more about the current state of the art, and that will partly depend on exposure to experts who've been in the biz for decades with insight and experience to share and practiced explanations of the advanced material.

[mcawesomeytyo]

I do agree that the biggest downside to attending Carnegie Mellon is the sky-high tuition rate

[theonlyalecazam]

Great vid, one benefit of top colleges I would mention is access to a lot of resources and networking

[economicdevelopmentplannin]

CM alumni economic outcomes are much better than University of Michigan, on both income and wealth indicators. You made the right decision.