SEC East vs West, via Obama

As you may know, the Obama Administration released it's scorecard of all colleges and universities. Me being me, I decided to once again put the SEC East vs West via the scorecard and see how they stack up. Below are Cost, Graduation Rate, and Salary of Graduates. I've ordered the list by Salary for each division. No surprise that Vandy leads the East, nor that A&M leads the West.

	Cost	GradRate	Salary
SEC EAST
Vandy	17,340	92%	60,900
UF	12,582	86%	51,300
UGA	11,990	83%	46,500
Mizzouri	16,940	70%	46,000
Tenn	14,162	67%	42,300
USC	16,523	73%	42,100
Kentucky	14,333	60%	41,500
SEC WEST
Texas A&M	10,912	79%	52,900
LSU	11,610	68%	45,900
Auburn	17,541	68%	45,400
Arkansas	11,861	60%	43,600
Alabama	20,916	67%	42,400
Ole Miss	13,858	58%	40,600
Miss State	15,983	60%	39,600

The average salary for East schools is $47,229. The average for the West is $44,343. This looks a lot like the academic comparison I did of East and West schools the other day, in which the Mississippi schools kill the West and Vandy props up the East. Take Vandy out of the East and the average salary of a graduate is basically the same, $44,950 in East, $44,343 in West.

If interested, you can deep dive the UGA stats here.

UPDATE

I looked up my alma mater, the University of North Alabama (sometimes known as TUNA, and yes we once tried to rename the school paper -- without success -- the TUNA wrapper) and I'm happy to report my salary beats the average. Go Lions.

Also, I computed "bang for the buck" numbers for the SEC data above. In other words, the cost as compared to the salary. The best is Texas A&M, followed by UF, then LSU and UGA.