Achievements. 1  The 592 degrees awarded in 2014â15 is 86 percent more than a decade ago. 2  The median starting salary for College of Engineering graduates in 2015 was $61,000, near the national average.
What constitutes disability? For Social Security disability or SSI purposes, to be considered disabled, individuals must have an impairment, either medical, psychological, or psychiatric in nature, that keeps them from being able to do substantial gainful activity (SGA, discussed below).
Supplemental Security Income (SSI) and Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) are both federal programs that provide cash payments to people who meet the federal definition of disabled. But the similarities between the two programs end there. Here are the three main differences between them.