Highest Post-Grad Earnings

Median earnings 10 years after college entry, from federal Scorecard data. Engineering/CS-heavy and finance-pipeline schools dominate. Note: this is overall median across all majors — engineering grads from any school will earn more than humanities grads from the same school.

Showing top 75 schools where Scorecard has populated earnings + cost data. Schools without federal earnings data (newer or smaller institutions) won't appear here.
After grad = median ~1 yr after completing the degree · 6-yr & 10-yr = median annual salary 6 and 10 years after first entering college (10-yr ≈ 5–6 yrs into a career). All annual salaries, all majors combined.

#	School	Location	After grad	6-yr	10-yr	4-yr cost	Type
#1	MIT	Cambridge, Massachusetts	$80K	$131K	$143K	$330K	private	View
#2	Harvey Mudd	Claremont, California	$118K	$115K	$138K	$360K	private	View
#3	Olin College	Needham, Massachusetts	$91K	$105K	$129K	$345K	private	View
#4	Caltech	Pasadena, California	$129K	$132K	$128K	$347K	private	View
#5	Stanford	Stanford, California	$53K	$102K	$124K	$351K	private	View
#6	Babson	Wellesley, Massachusetts	$61K	$91K	$123K	$320K	private	View
#7	Bentley	Waltham, Massachusetts	$63K	$86K	$120K	$318K	private	View
#8	Carnegie Mellon	Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania	$78K	$105K	$114K	$334K	private	View
#9	UPenn	Philadelphia, Pennsylvania	$60K	$90K	$111K	$356K	private	View
#10	Princeton	Princeton, New Jersey	$50K	$87K	$110K	$336K	private	View
#11	Santa Clara	Santa Clara, California	$52K	$91K	$109K	$328K	private	View
#12	Stevens Institute	Hoboken, New Jersey	$70K	$90K	$108K	$319K	private	View
#13	Lehigh	Bethlehem, Pennsylvania	$67K	$88K	$105K	$323K	private	View
#14	Claremont McKenna	Claremont, California	$95K	$87K	$104K	$346K	private	View
#15	Cornell	Ithaca, New York	$55K	$39K	$104K	$352K	private	View
#16	Boston College	Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts	$49K	$85K	$103K	$357K	private	View
#17	Georgetown	Washington, District of Columbia	$61K	$83K	$103K	$354K	private	View
#18	WPI	Worcester, Massachusetts	$67K	$85K	$103K	$314K	private	View
#19	Georgia Tech	Atlanta, Georgia	$67K	$89K	$102K	$112K	public	View
#20	Columbia	New York, New York	$46K	$88K	$102K	$357K	private	View
#21	RPI	Troy, New York	$65K	$83K	$102K	$329K	private	View
#22	Harvard	Cambridge, Massachusetts	$53K	$99K	$101K	$342K	private	View
#23	Rose-Hulman	Terre Haute, Indiana	$72K	$85K	$101K	$311K	private	View
#24	Yale	New Haven, Connecticut	$50K	$81K	$100K	$353K	private	View
#25	Villanova	Villanova, Pennsylvania	$60K	$84K	$100K	$339K	private	View
#26	Notre Dame	Notre Dame, Indiana	$54K	$86K	$99K	$333K	private	View
#27	Duke	Durham, North Carolina	$43K	$85K	$97K	$348K	private	View
#28	Dartmouth	Hanover, New Hampshire	$43K	$82K	$97K	$351K	private	View
#29	Colorado Mines	Colorado	$67K	$82K	$97K	$162K	public	View
#30	Kettering University	Michigan	—	—	$94K	$245K	private	View
#31	Washington and Lee	Virginia	$51K	$76K	$94K	$348K	private	View
#32	Bucknell	Lewisburg, Pennsylvania	$61K	$78K	$93K	$335K	private	View
#33	Brown	Providence, Rhode Island	$40K	$79K	$93K	$350K	private	View
#34	Northeastern	Boston, Massachusetts	$48K	$78K	$92K	$338K	private	View
#35	USC	Los Angeles, California	$45K	$74K	$92K	$361K	private	View
#36	UC Berkeley	Berkeley, California	$41K	$74K	$92K	$182K	public	View
#37	University of Chicago	Chicago, Illinois	$41K	$80K	$91K	$361K	private	View
#38	Vanderbilt	Nashville, Tennessee	$39K	$73K	$91K	$358K	private	View
#39	Lafayette	Pennsylvania	$55K	$80K	$91K	$332K	private	View
#40	GWU	Washington, District of Columbia	$47K	$71K	$90K	$335K	private	View
#41	Trinity College	Hartford, Connecticut	$41K	$67K	$90K	$351K	private	View
#42	Cal Poly San Luis Obispo	San Luis Obispo, California	$46K	$72K	$90K	$129K	public	View
#43	United States Military Academy	New York	—	$96K	$90K	$36K	public	View
#44	United States Naval Academy	Maryland	—	—	$90K	$36K	public	View
#45	United States Air Force Academy	Colorado	—	—	$90K	$36K	public	View
#46	United States Coast Guard Academy	Connecticut	—	—	$90K	$36K	public	View
#47	Holy Cross	Massachusetts	$39K	$69K	$90K	$321K	private	View
#48	Bryant	Rhode Island	$54K	$66K	$90K	$279K	private	View
#49	University of San Francisco	California	$42K	$69K	$89K	$320K	private	View
#50	Rice	Houston, Texas	$56K	$79K	$89K	$319K	private	View
#51	Clarkson University	New York	$63K	$76K	$89K	$316K	private	View
#52	Northwestern	Evanston, Illinois	$46K	$76K	$89K	$365K	private	View
#53	Milwaukee School of Engineering	Wisconsin	$63K	$75K	$89K	$250K	private	View
#54	Fairfield	Connecticut	$50K	$73K	$88K	$304K	private	View
#55	Williams	Williamstown, Massachusetts	$40K	$71K	$88K	$339K	private	View
#56	Union College	New York	—	—	$88K	$338K	private	View
#57	Case Western	Cleveland, Ohio	$60K	$75K	$87K	$343K	private	View
#58	Johns Hopkins	Baltimore, Maryland	$34K	$86K	$87K	$343K	private	View
#59	Providence	Rhode Island	$40K	$69K	$87K	$321K	private	View
#60	Saint Joseph's	Pennsylvania	$30K	$66K	$86K	$191K	private	View
#61	UVA	Charlottesville, Virginia	$44K	$72K	$86K	$159K	public	View
#62	University of San Diego	California	$43K	$64K	$86K	$314K	private	View
#63	Manhattan College	New York	$44K	$64K	$86K	$257K	private	View
#64	Wash U St. Louis	St. Louis, Missouri	$61K	$78K	$86K	$353K	private	View
#65	Fordham	Bronx, New York	$40K	$68K	$85K	$331K	private	View
#66	Colgate	Hamilton, New York	$43K	$64K	$85K	$348K	private	View
#67	UC San Diego	California	$34K	$65K	$84K	$154K	public	View
#68	Wellesley	Wellesley, Massachusetts	$37K	$65K	$84K	$345K	private	View
#69	Drexel	Philadelphia, Pennsylvania	$55K	$69K	$84K	$307K	private	View
#70	NJIT	New Jersey	$60K	$69K	$84K	$131K	public	View
#71	Embry-Riddle	Florida	$53K	$65K	$84K	$258K	private	View
#72	Cooper Union	New York, New York	$31K	$39K	$83K	$256K	private	View
#73	Quinnipiac	Connecticut	$38K	$65K	$83K	$288K	private	View
#74	University of Michigan	Ann Arbor, Michigan	$37K	$45K	$83K	$138K	public	View
#75	Boston University	Boston, Massachusetts	$37K	$65K	$83K	$345K	private	View