South African Universities whose students get the highest starting salaries

This series of articles remind me of people and their PhDs... picking the bones to maximise the number of publications. Next up: citing previous articles in follow-up articles!
 
Wow, those salaries are insanely high. With a Masters you'll be lucky to start at R20000 let alone an undergrad. I know many who started at R10000. I don't understand where MyBB gets its data from. Ever single article regarding salaries puts average salaries at so much higher than I've ever seen in the real world. Labour is cheap in South Africa. I started at R15000 with a Masters from UCT in 2013 and that was considered good.
 
Ghost29 said:
Wow, those salaries are insanely high. With a Masters you'll be lucky to start at R20000 let alone an undergrad. I know many who started at R10000. I don't understand where MyBB gets its data from. Ever single article regarding salaries puts average salaries at so much higher than I've ever seen in the real world. Labour is cheap in South Africa. I started at R15000 with a Masters from UCT in 2013 and that was considered good.
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As a matter of interest, what type of work did you start doing after your Masters?
 
Ghost29 said:
Wow, those salaries are insanely high. With a Masters you'll be lucky to start at R20000 let alone an undergrad. I know many who started at R10000. I don't understand where MyBB gets its data from. Ever single article regarding salaries puts average salaries at so much higher than I've ever seen in the real world. Labour is cheap in South Africa. I started at R15000 with a Masters from UCT in 2013 and that was considered good.
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Like the article says, fields of study were not considered. If most of their survey respondents have high paying jobs the data will be skewed towards higher starting salaries.
 
Ghost29 said:
Wow, those salaries are insanely high. With a Masters you'll be lucky to start at R20000 let alone an undergrad. I know many who started at R10000. I don't understand where MyBB gets its data from. Ever single article regarding salaries puts average salaries at so much higher than I've ever seen in the real world. Labour is cheap in South Africa. I started at R15000 with a Masters from UCT in 2013 and that was considered good.
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I believe MyBB got the data from the survey which was conducted by the various forumnites inputs. They probably did some funny maths in some instances to get to "todays" figures.

I had an undergrad degree and the salary indicated is on par with my starting salary in 2013. Obviously if they could indicate the degree that was studied at the University that would be more accurate as some individuals whom has medical degrees probably inflate these figures.
 
cguy said:
As a matter of interest, what type of work did you start doing after your Masters?
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I went from getting a Masters in medical science to technical content editor and entirely project manager in educational technology. I left science because those who continued on with their PhD and research were earning peanuts.
 
hehe...

HavocXphere said:
1 survey followed by 20 articles slicing & dicing the same data in different ways. Here we get starting salary and average *increase*. Next article will be about average salary etc. Then one about salary split by varsity. Then by beer preference etc.
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I was allowed to fill in the survey multiple times. Had a lot of fun with the data entered.:crylaugh:
 
Ghost29 said:
I went from getting a Masters in medical science to technical content editor and entirely project manager in educational technology. I left science because those who continued on with their PhD and research were earning peanuts.
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Ah, ok. I think Charlie21 and SammyD hit it on the head - I expect the salaries appear inflated to you (and indeed, they are) because the survey respondents are primarily from the IT/technology side.
 
Labour is cheap in South Africa.
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It stands to reason, exploitation is our national sport. I mean the government expects people to educate children for 12 grand a month. How can they ever expect this country to be prosperous when they exploit the most.?
 
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