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Data Science

The Matrix Architects

These kids speak in Python and dream in tensor calculus. They don't need a UI; they just read the raw JSON. Will probably automate your job before they can legally drink.

# ▲ University Location Degrees Accept SAT Male/Female Intl 5-Year Earn
1 U. of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA
Berkeley, CA 771 11% 57% / 43% 23% — —
2 Carnegie Mellon
Pittsburgh, PA
Pittsburgh, PA — 11% — — — —
3 MIT
Cambridge, MA
Cambridge, MA 39 5% 46% / 54% 8% — —
4 Stanford
Stanford, CA
Stanford, CA 4 4% 50% / 50% 0% — —
5 U. of Washington
Seattle, WA
Seattle, WA — 42% — — — —

The Tech Bro Pipeline

Heavy engineering focus. They grind LeetCode, train LLMs in their dorms, and are actively trying to optimize their Tinder profiles using machine learning.

# ▲ University Location Degrees Accept SAT Male/Female Intl 5-Year Earn
1 Georgia Tech
Atlanta, GA
Atlanta, GA — 13% — — — —
2 U. of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Champaign, IL
Champaign, IL 20 37% 45% / 55% 35% — —
3 U. of California, San Diego
La Jolla, CA
La Jolla, CA — 29% — — — —
4 U. of Michigan - Ann Arbor
Ann Arbor, MI
Ann Arbor, MI 103 16% 71% / 29% 32% — —
5 U. of Texas at Austin
Austin, TX
Austin, TX — 22% — — — —

The Prestige Pivoters

Their universities added a Data Science major last year to keep up with the trend. Will absolutely use "AI" as a buzzword to justify a wildly incorrect business strategy.

# ▲ University Location Degrees Accept SAT Male/Female Intl 5-Year Earn
1 Yale
New Haven, CT
New Haven, CT — 4% — — — —
2 Princeton
Princeton, NJ
Princeton, NJ — 4% — — — —
3 U. of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA
Philadelphia, PA — 4% — — — —
4 Duke
Durham, NC
Durham, NC — 5% — — — —
5 Brown
Providence, RI
Providence, RI — 5% — — — —

Jupyter Notebook Jockeys

They know their way around scikit-learn and won't accidentally drop the production database. Dependable picks who might actually have social skills.

# ▲ University Location Degrees Accept SAT Male/Female Intl 5-Year Earn
1 New York University
New York, NY
New York, NY 167 9% 59% / 41% 59% — —
2 U. of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA
Los Angeles, CA — 12% — — — —
3 U. of California, Irvine
Irvine, CA
Irvine, CA — 29% — — — —
4 U. of Maryland, College Park
College Park, MD
College Park, MD — 45% — — — —
5 Cornell
Ithaca, NY
Ithaca, NY — 7% — — — —