Visual Analysis of Top 100 Average Monthly Salary of Chinese Colleges-Guo Yuxin, 网媒1502

Over the past few days, scores of college entrance exams have been released in succession. No matter what the results are, the candidates are definitely considering how to fill in the college aspiration. Because the choice of school, major, city and other factors may be closely related to the future job wage. Therefore, an important factor for candidates to consider is the salary of university graduates.

At the same time, during the graduation season, the problem of College Students' employment has also received attention. According to the data released by the Ministry of Education, the number of college graduates has been increasing every year. This year, the number of college graduates nationwide reached 8.2 million, which is a substantial increase compared to 2017. With anincrease of nearly 250,000 people, college graduates face greater employment pressure.

Figure1. Number of college graduate in China from 2011 to 2018 / ten thousand

In order to understand the employment situation of Chinese university graduates, Xinchou.cn recently announced a Chinese university graduates' salary rankings TOP200 in 2018. This list includes surveys of 2017, 2015, and 2013 undergraduate graduates from nearly one hundred universities including 39 985-engineering colleges and 112 211-engineering colleges (the number of survey samples reaches 2.81 million). It calculates the salary status of college graduates.

The following content was visualized and analyzed based on the top 100 data.

Figure2. Average monthly salary of Top 100 college graduates in 2018 (Grade 2017,2015,2013)        click to see more

According to this salary data, in the top 100 colleges, the average monthlysalary of the 2017 graduates is below 10,000 yuan and more than 6,000 yuan. 4 colleges’ monthly salaries are more than 9,000 yuan, and a total of 42 are over 8,000 yuan. Compared with the Grade 2017 graduates, the wage levels of theGrade 2015 and 2013 graduates have significantly increased. In particular, the salaries of 2013 graduates have generally risen by nearly 30%.

Figure3. Relation between colloge's engineering project with salaries (based on Grade 2017)

The figure3 shows that most of the 985, 211 engineering college graduates' average monthly salaries are above 8,000 yuan, which are ahead of ordinary colleges. However, some college graduates also have wages ranging from 8,000 yuan to 9,000 yuan. So the most important factor in graduation salary depends on individual strength.

Figure4. The number of the city where the Top 100 school is located in

Judging from the list of cities where colleges are located in, colleges in first-tier cities clearly have an advantage over graduates' salaries. From the figure4, we can see that the locations of 65 colleges in the top 100 are in first-tier cities, of which schools in Beijing account for 58.46%. And there are 5 schools with an average salary of 2017 graduates above 9000 yuan, three of which are in Beijing. The number of schools in Shanghai ranks second on the list. The number of schools in the new first-tier cities also not a few, with a total of 24.

Through the above analysis, graduate salaries do have a lot to do with the location of the school and the strength of the school. However, it is also closely related to one‘s own strength and efforts. The college aspiration should analyze comprehensively including not only the external conditions but also the internal like interests. The college entrance examination cannot decide a lifetime. There are many opportunities to counterattack.

Data sources：

https://wenku.baidu.com/view/549a7e26a9114431b90d6c85ec3a87c240288a82.html?from_page=view&from_mod=download