Top 50 Colleges That Pays Top Salaries for Their Grads

Do you want to know top colleges in USA that pays top Salaries? There is a new report that lists Top Colleges based on Salary.

Before going into the report, lets look at mindset of students (International) when they plan to study in USA.

Typically, most of  the students don’t plan beyond Graduate School.

Top 3 priorities for student planning to study in USA

• Good Universities for my Profile
• Can I financial Aid
• Can I get visa
• Can I get job after completing Grad School from this school.

But, unfortunately, most students don’t put in enough research into future pay scale. Even though salary is subjective, you have to think about Salary and impact of colleges on the Salary.

Top Colleges for Top Salaries

Smart Money published a report on colleges where students earn the most based on following criteria

Recent grads (out of school for an average of three years) and midcareer types (an average of 15 years out). For each group, we divided the median alumnus salary by tuition and fees (assuming they paid full price at then-current rates), averaged the results and, finally, converted that result to a percentage figure.

The outcome: a measure of return on investment that we’ve dubbed the Payback Score. For example, a hypothetical alum who spent $100,000 to attend college and now earns $150,000 a year would have a personal score of 150.

Georgia Tech tops the list of colleges where grads earn a lot of money, followed by University of Florida.

Lets look at the Top Colleges in details.

#1 Georgia Institute of Technology

• Final Score – 202
• Starting Fees (Class 2009) – $87,810
• Median Salary (Recent) – $59,000
• Starting Fees (Class 1997) – 430,249
• Mid Career Salary – $102,000

#2 University of Florida

 

• Final Score – 182
• Starting Fees (Class 2009) – $73,476
• Median Salary (Recent) – $46,200
• Starting Fees (Class 1997) – $26,850
• Mid Career Salary – $80,800

#3 University of Texas, Austin

• Final Score – 180
• Starting Fees (Class 2009) – $91,596
• Median Salary (Recent) – $48,800
• Starting Fees (Class 1997) – $29,531
• Mid Career Salary – $90,800

#21 Carneigie Mello University

• Final Score – 92
• Starting Fees (Class 2009) – $143,540
• Median Salary (Recent) – $59,800
• Starting Fees (Class 1997) – $73,260
• Mid Career Salary – $104,000

#32 University of Michigan

• Final Score – 83
• Starting Fees (Class 2009) – $121,010
• Median Salary (Recent) – $51,300
• Starting Fees (Class 1997) – $67,738
• Mid Career Salary – $84,200

#45 Tulane University

• Final Score – 66
• Starting Fees (Class 2009) – $143,516
• Median Salary (Recent) – $43,800
• Starting Fees (Class 1997) – $80,204
• Mid Career Salary – $81,800

Top 10 College for Top Salaries

1. Georgia Institute of Technology
2. University of Florida
3. University of Texas, Austin
4. University of Georgia
5. University of Illinois
6. University of Washington, Seattle
7. Clemson University
8. Purdue University
9. Colorado School of Mines
10. University of California, Berkeley
11. Miami University (Ohio)
12. Indiana University
13. Pennsylvania State University
14. University of Oregon
15. Michigan State University
16. College of William & Mary
17. University of Virginia
18. Princeton University
19. University of Colorado, Boulder
20. University of New Hampshire
21. Carnegie-Mellon University
22. Williams College
23. Dartmouth College
24. Harvard University
25. Colgate University
26. University of Pennsylvania
27. University of Richmond
28. Columbia University
29. Cornell University
30. Brown University
31. Bucknell University
32. University of Michigan
33. Yale University
34. Amherst College
35. Occidental College
36. Tufts University
37. Dickinson College
38. George Washington University
39. University of Vermont
40. Wesleyan University (Conn.)
41. Carleton College
42. Trinity College
43. Hobart and William Smith Colleges
44. Vassar College
45. Tulane University
46. Oberlin College
47. Bryn Mawr College
48. Hampshire College
49. Sarah Lawrence College
50. Bard College (New York)

 

As you can see 4 year undergraduate college is not cheap. Some students pay close to $150,000 to get 4 year bachelors degree.

See the complete list with data here.

Would you be willing to pay $150,000 for your Under Graduate Eduction?