<p>MIT conveniently has its own career survey information:
[Graduating</a> Student Survey - MIT Careers Office](<a href=“http://web.mit.edu/career/www/infostats/graduation.html]Graduating”>http://web.mit.edu/career/www/infostats/graduation.html)</p>
<p>Page 21 of the 2010 career survey lists average pay of graduates. (However, it appears that for EECS, they switched numbers in the SB and SM columns.)</p>
<p>Highest paid master’s degrees were Chemical Engineering (4* graduates, $121,250), Health Science and Technology (2* graduates, $120,000), and Mechanical Engineering (23 graduates, $118,761), the only ones over $100,000.</p>
<p>Highest paid bachelor’s degrees were Materials Science and Engineering (3* graduates, $74,667), Mathematics (23 graduates, $70,102), Civil and Environmental Engineering (5* graduates, $68,400), Nuclear Engineering (4* graduates, $65,345), EECS (42 graduates, $65,333), Management (39 graduates, $65,218), and Aeronautics and Astronautics (19 graduates, $64,542).</p>
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<li>= very few graduates</li>
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