<p>A new research study just came out that shows the salaries earned by new grads and also those earned by grads by "mid-career" time. It's interesting that Dartmouth grads pass up the other Ivys by mid-career. Also interesting that Bucknell grads end up #1 for liberal arts colleges.</p>
<p>IMO the differences in salary between colleges in the same category are negligible. What's more interesting to me is the more significant difference in salary between an Ivy and a PR-listed party school or even some of the state schools. Obviously not proof of anything, but good food for thought, nonetheless.</p>
<p>I could understand starting salary, but some of this is SB.</p>
<p>For example a Harvard grad might make more because they chose to go to a MBA,M.D,J.D or Ph.D. for often then joe blow from state u.</p>
<p>For example, A MIT or Cal-tech grad will be recruited for a lot of $$$ by Boston or LA/SF/SJ companies,but remember the CoL is extremely high in both Boston and California </p>
<p>If a Georgia Tech Grad makes $70k, they can buy a real nice house and live very very well.</p>
<p>And for example this is a bit unfair...A Engineer will make more money starting then say an Ibanker, but an Ibanker can earn much much more money overtime.</p>
<p>mind you, i find this all to be rather absurd, but data for places like duke can be found by looking through the 'regional' rankings linked in the table of contents.</p>
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Annual pay for Bachelors graduates without higher degrees. Typical starting graduates have 3 years of experience; mid-career have 15.5 years. See full methodology for more. </p>
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This chart is based upon PayScale Salary Survey data for Bachelors graduates without higher degrees who are full-time employees in the United States. These results may not represent all attendees of these colleges. Salary is the sum of compensation from base salary, bonuses, profit sharing, commissions, and overtime, if applicable, but does not include equity (stock) compensation. See full methodology for more.
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<p>That's actually interesting that they only took data from people with a BS/BA degree. I wonder how the reporting was done. Maybe asking schools for the latest info on their alumni after their 20 year reunion?</p>
<p>I also wonder at how they got this information, but my first impression is that these numbers are pretty accurate, both at the starting levels and the more important mid-career numbers. A nice improvement would be if we could see the geographic distribution as there are definitely different Costs of Living. So be careful not to go just by the headline numbers as, for example, there are only three Midwestern colleges that break the $100k level while there are 26 in the Northeast over this level.</p>