According to a recent study compiled by PayScale.com , the top schools for future earnings ,according to earnings of alumni at colleges around the country;
No. 1: Dartmouth College
Median Salary 0 to 5 years $58,000
10 to 20 years $134,000
Top Earners*$321,000
Crossing the Dartmouth Green (photo by Joseph Mehling '69)
Dartmouth College is a private, four-year liberal arts institution that has been at the forefront of American higher education since 1769. A member of the Ivy League, Dartmouth is a superb undergraduate residential college with the intellectual character of a university, featuring thriving research and first-rate graduate and professional programs. This unique combination creates a highly personal learning environment for our exceptional students and faculty.
No. 2:
Princeton University
Princeton's campus is located on 500 acres in central New Jersey. The University recently created an
Office of Sustainability to continue focusing on areas where it has been a leader, such as energy conservation, and to coordinate other environmental efforts.
Median Salary 0 to 5 years $66,500
10 to 20 years $131,000
Top Earners* $261,000
*Ten percent of grads with 10 to 20 years experience earn more than this amount.
No. 3: Stanford University
Photo: L.A. Cicero
Palm Drive, the mile-long, palm tree-lined entrance to campus, connects Stanford with the neighboring town of Palo Alto. Bike and walking paths and an arboretum border Palm Drive, and the street culminates at the Oval, a lawn at the front of campus where students often study or play volleyball and Frisbee. The view west down Palm Drive -- with palm trees framing
Memorial Church and the
foothills beyond -- is a classic Stanford shot.
Median Salary 0 to 5 years $70,400
10 to 20 years $129,000
Top Earners*$257,000
*Ten percent of grads with 10 to 20 years experience earn more than this amount.
No. 4: Yale UniversityYale’s roots can be traced back to the 1640s, when colonial clergymen led an effort to establish a college in New Haven to preserve the tradition of European liberal education in the New World. This vision was fulfilled in 1701, when the charter was granted for a school “wherein Youth may be instructed in the Arts and Sciences [and] through the blessing of Almighty God may be fitted for Publick employment both in Church and Civil State.” In 1718 the school was renamed “Yale College” in gratitude to the Welsh merchant Elihu Yale, who had donated the proceeds from the sale of nine bales of goods together with 417 books and a portrait of King George I.
Median Salary 0 to 5 years $59,100
10 to 20 years $126,000
Top Earners* $326,000
*Ten percent of grads with 10 to 20 years experience earn more than this amount.
No. 4:
Massachusetts Institute Of Technology The mission of MIT is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
MIT is located on 168 acres that extend more than a mile along the Cambridge side of the Charles River Basin .
Median Salary 0 to 5 years $72,200
10 to 20 years $126,000
Top Earners*$326,000
*Ten percent of grads with 10 to 20 years experience earn more than this amount.
No. 6: Harvard University
Median Salary 0 to 5 years $63,400
10 to 20 years $124,000
Top Earners* $288,000
*Ten percent of grads with 10 to 20 years experience earn more than this amount.
No. 7: University Of Pennsylvania
Median Salary 0 to 5 years $60,900
10 to 20 years $120,000
Top Earners* $282,000
*Ten percent of grads with 10 to 20 years experience earn more than this amount.
No. 8: University Of Notre Dame
Median Salary 0 to 5 years $56,300
10 to 20 years $116,000
Top Earners* $235,000
*Ten percent of grads with 10 to 20 years experience earn more than this amount
No. 9: Polytechnic University Of New York, Brooklyn
Median Salary 0 to 5 years $62,400
10 to 20 years $114,000
Top Earners* $190,000
*Ten percent of grads with 10 to 20 years experience earn more than this amount.
No. 9: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Median Salary 0 to 5 years $61,000
10 to 20 years $114,000
Top Earners* $180,000
*Ten percent of grads with 10 to 20 years experience earn more than this amount.
No. 11: University Of Chicago
Median Salary 0 to 5 years $53,400
10 to 20 years $113,000
Top Earners* $255,000
*Ten percent of grads with 10 to 20 years experience earn more than this amount.
Source: PayScale.com
