<p>Ivy League Schools Starting Median Salary Mid-Career Median Salary
Dartmouth College $58,000 $134,000
Princeton University $66,500 $131,000
Yale University $59,100 $126,000
Harvard University $63,400 $124,000
University of Pennsylvania $60,900 $120,000
Cornell University $60,300 $110,000
Brown University $56,200 $109,000
Columbia University $59,400 $107,000</p>
<p>If you want money, work hard and get smarter. Do well in your classes and interviews. Comparing median salaries among top schools in the nation is useless. Going to a school with the highest median salary when you are not good isn’t going to give you a higher salary. Sorry for my negativity.</p>
<p>this is really quite pointless. honestly after about ten years or so the salary differences (not just among ivies but ALL schools) level out and there is no real strong correlation between college and salary.</p>
<p>it’s kind of sad these kind of stats are even mentioned. they’re all ivies at the end of the day</p>
<p>Jomjom, I suppose in your inane ■■■■■■■■, the use of basic logic was something you chose to ignore. </p>
<p>1) The number of students in a given graduate school is a meaningless statistic when you don’t even consider the number of students that applied. I suggest you look at the acceptance rate that Princeton had to any of those graduate schools. No one is arguing that schools tend to treat their own a bit more favorably for their own graduate programs. But…who really cares?</p>
<p>Princeton’s acceptance rate and average gpa/lsat accepted to HLS vs Yale’s is virtually identical. Princeton, Harvard and Yale all do virtually the same with respect to graduate admissions. </p>
<p>2) Annual pay for Bachelors graduates without higher degrees is the issue at hand here. Everyone being compared only has a bachelor’s degree, it is comparing Princeton ABs to Harvard BAs and to Dartmouth BAs, etc. How would Princeton’s lack of a law school in anyway influence these results. Are you suggesting that my average income as a Princeton AB was higher than that of a Harvard BA just because Goldman Sachs decided “oh gosh, that poor Princeton alum doesn’t have a Med school to go to, I should probably take him over that Eli!” </p>
<p>If that were even the case, wouldn’t we expect Brown to be boosted instead of falling into second to last place? </p>
<p>Jomjom, if you’re going to ■■■■■ maybe you should put together coherent arguments instead of making a fool of yourself. In case you need help, here’s an example of what would be considered an acceptable critique of this ranking:</p>
<p>“Princeton and Dartmouth grads seem to send more students to Wall Street (proportionally) than Harvard or Yale do and that’s why they do better in this ranking (and why they would have fewer grads at a given graduate school). This ranking isn’t a reflection of how good a school is but rather a reflection of the career decisions thats students at a given school tend to make.”</p>