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OT: Weird forum bug
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yawnzzz Sep 3 2008, 02:47 PM Post #16
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yeah, i already have a job lined up with a 'fruity' technology company ;) -- that's about all i can say about that.

anyways, the informatics field, as of the last few years, has been booming. the school has near 100% job placement now, with avg. starting salary of about $62,000. That's improved steadily over the past few years after employers learned/found out what informatics actually was. The School of Informatics has the second biggest career fair on campus, and there are job recruiters left and right looking for grads. (it certainly does depend on your focus area, aka cognate.) If you major in informatics with a cognate in fine arts, finding a job won't be very easy.
That's good to hear that you have a job lined up. So are you getting a BS in Informatics and a BA in Computer Science? I ask because that's where the $62k average came from. The average BS in Informatics makes $53k with an average of $43k for jobs in Indiana. There's a huge discrepancy in wages depending on where you work. I've gotten offers from companies in California offering over double my salary that I've turned down because of the discrepancy in cost of living along with the benefits of owning my own business, which is hard to put a price on.

By the way, my roommate had a cognitive related to Computer Science along with a business certificate from the Kelley School of business in management and a 3.7 GPA. It all came down to him not having experience gained while in college because most companies don't want to train their employees for these positions. I believe it took him over 6 months after graduation to find a job in Indianapolis, and I doubt they're paying more than $50k.

It sounds like you're set, but if you have any friends in the school, make sure they get an internship or job related to their field before they graduate, or it will be difficult no matter what those statistics tell you. I'd wager my business that there's some high outliers that are making $500k that skew those numbers.
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