by Bridget Quigg, PayScale.com
Have you ever wondered if Stanford grads really do make the big bucks, or if a "party school" degree can still land you a high-paying job?
Online salary database PayScale.com put together a 2009 College Salary Report that highlights which college graduates make the highest and lowest salaries right out of college and how that changes 10 years post-graduation.
While it may be no surprise that social work came in as the least well-paid major overall in PayScale's report, you may not know that Dartmouth's grads fare better financially 10 years after college than Harvard's.
Whether you went to a small, liberal arts college or graduated from an Ivy League school, take a look at the list below to see if your alma mater made a top 10 earners list.
School Name / Starting Median Salary / Mid-Career Median Salary
1. Dartmouth College: $58,200 / $129,000
2. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT): $71,100 / $126,000
3. Harvard University: $60,000 / $126,000
4. Harvey Mudd College: $71,000 / $125,000
5. Stanford University: $67,500 / $124,000
6. Princeton University: $65,000 / $124,000
7. Colgate University: $51,900 / $122,000
8. University of Notre Dame: $55,300 / $121,000
9. Yale University: $56,000 / $120,000
10. University of Pennsylvania: $60,400 / $118,000
Thanks for reminding me my school is not on that list...
we are less than $2,000 below Madison
http://www.payscale.com/best-colleges/midwestern-colleges.asp
I should have added:
School Name / Starting Median Salary / Mid-Career Median Salary
University of Wisconsin (UW) - Madison $48,800 $88,300
Marquette University $47,700 $86,700
And Tom Crean's greener pasture:
Indiana University (IU), Bloomington $46,000 $82,600
I'd like to throw this out there though that, with pretty much the exception of ND and maybe Dartmouth or Colgate, those 10 schools are in pretty mid-upper to upper class coastal areas. I figure the Standard of living being higher has to account for some of the differences in salary. Whereas starting at $47+ and making a career median at $86+ can lead to a pretty comfortable way of life in the Midwest
Quote from: Ari Gold on March 01, 2010, 10:49:32 PM
I'd like to throw this out there though that, with pretty much the exception of ND and maybe Dartmouth or Colgate, those 10 schools are in pretty mid-upper to upper class coastal areas. I figure the Standard of living being higher has to account for some of the differences in salary. Whereas starting at $47+ and making a career median at $86+ can lead to a pretty comfortable way of life in the Midwest
Absolutely. Most of those salaries you couldn't live out here in California on some of them.
Agreed with above. You also can't ignore the fact that MU and UW are essentially the same, but with $50K+ less debt attached. Damn Badgers.