The number “33,000” tells an unexpected story that takes us into the exclusive halls of the computer science departments at UC Berkeley and UCLA .
That figure, it turns out, represents the amount of additional dollars per year that computer science students who graduated from the Northern California UC campus can expect to earn beyond what their counterparts from the Southern California campus are likely to earn.
Those dollars also put UC Berkeley’s computer science earnings ahead of those from every other major across the University of California and California State University, according to a Chronicle analysis of majors leading to the best-paying jobs . (See the data for every UC and Cal State major .)…