Salary Potential from Selected Colleges – 2020–21

Based on all graduates, including those with advanced degrees

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College Early Career
Median Salary ($$)¹
Mid-Career
Median Salary ($$)²
Stanford 86,800 164,200
MIT 92,300 163,900
U.S. Naval Academy 85,800 160,700
Harvey Mudd 93,100 160,600
Cal Tech 93,200 159,900
Harvard 80,100 159,400
U.S. Military Academy 84,800 158,100
Princeton 79,900 157,200
Yale University 77,100 154,600
Babson College 73,900 153,200
UPenn 76,800 152,900
Dartmouth College 75,500 152,500
Claremont McKenna 73,800 150,000
Georgetown 69,400 148,900
UC-Berkeley 74,500 146,700
U.S. Air Force Academy 81,100 146,200
Colgate University 70,000 145,600
Duke University 75,400 145,400
Washington and Lee 69,100 145,400
Brown University 71,700 144,800
Lehigh University 72,300 144,500
Carnegie Mellon 80,800 144,500
Williams College 69,900 143,400
WPI 76,500 143,200
Bucknell University 69,500 143,000
Notre Dame 70,500 142,300
Swarthmore College 69,700 142,300
Haverford College 63,700 141,900
Georgia Tech 75,800 141,800
Columbia University 76,100 140,800
Rensselaer Polytech 74,700 140,800
Cornell University 74,600 140,200
Amherst College 68,100 139,800
Rice University 74,200 139,500
Tufts University 68,300 137,900
Pomona College 69,100 137,800
Lafayette College 70,400 137,500
Union College 66,600 134,600
Bowdoin College 65,200 134,600
Wesleyan University 64,600 134,000
George Washington U. 63,800 131,300
UVA 67,900 131,200
USC 68,200 130,800
Wake Forest University 64,800 130,200
Bates College 61,700 130,100
Franklin and Marshall 61,100 130,100
Vanderbilt 69,300 129,400
UCLA 65,600 129,400
Villanova University 68,300 129,300
Johns Hopkins U. 72,800 129,200
New York University 65,600 129,100
Northwestern University 67,000 128,900
University of Chicago 68,200 128,800
Brandeis University 63,400 128,100
Carleton College 61,000 128,000
Davidson College 61,700 127,400
Case Western Reserve 69,700 127,000
Emory University 66,400 126,600
College of Holy Cross 64,000 126,200
Boston University 64,100 126,300
Washington U. St. L. 69,300 126,200
University of Rochester 66,600 125,100
Boston College 66,700 124,400
Trinity College 63,800 124,200
Occidental College 58,700 124,000
Middlebury College 66,200 123,800
Reed College 58,300 123,300
William and Mary 62,100 123,300
Barnard College 62,400 123,200
Gettysburg college 60,400 123,000
Whitman College 58,800 122,100
Hobart and Wm. Smith 57,900 121,700
Fordham University 61,800 121,600
Univ. of Michigan 67,800 121,500
Kenyon College 58,000 119,700
Clark University 56,000 119,500
Sewanee-U. of the South 57,000 119,300
Saint John's College 60,400 119,200
St. Lawrence University 57,900 119,000
Tulane University 59,700 118,800
University of Richmond 62,000 118,200
Vassar College 59,300 118,200
Hamilton College 63,700 116,400
U Mass - Lowell 61,800 116,200
Denison University 55,800 116,100
Rhodes College 54,500 115,800
Depauw University 59,600 115,300
Grinnell College 58,100 115,000
Wentworth Institute 64,000 114,900
St. Anselm College 58,500 114,300
Purdue 64,400 114,200
Colby College 63,300 114,100
Wellesley College 63,900 113,700
Northeastern University 66,200 113,500
Smith College 55,800 113,200
Sarah Lawrence College 54,800 113,000
Syracuse University 60,500 112,900
Bryn Mawr College 59,200 112,800
Connecticut College 60,900 112,700
Lawrence 54,800 112,600
Univ. of Connecticut 62,300 111,400
University of Florida 59,600 111,000
Penn. State University 61,500 110,800
Pitzer College 57,100 110,600
U. of Wisconsin-Madison 60,900 110,000
St. Olaf College 57,300 109,800
Pepperdine University 61,400 109,500
Rochester I.T. 64,800 109,100
Stonehill College 58,200 109,000
Muhlenberg College 56,100 108,800
U Mass - Amherst 60,300 108,700
Skidmore College 56,400 108,600
University of Miami 60,600 108,600
Dickinson College 58,600 108,500
Wheaton College 56,100 108,200
Colorado College 57,500 107,600
UNH 57,200 106,900
Macalester College 56,700 106,800
Allegheny College 53,400 105,600
University of N.C. 59,000 105,400
Oberlin College 56,400 105,400
St. Michael's College 53,900 105,200
University of Pittsburgh 59,600 104,500
Mount Holyoke College 56,700 104,400
University of Vermont 55,800 104,100
Scripps College 58,500 102,600
Lewis and Clark 53,200 102,200
Knox College 53,400 101,800
College of Wooster 52,100 97,800
Beloit College 51,100 96,500
Bard College 54,800 94,100
Bennington College 49,300 90,800
Franklin Pierce 49,400 88,100
Plymouth State 49,200 85,300
Rivier 54,300 85,200
Keene State 50,900 84,900
SNHU 50,200 83,400
NHTI 45,200 70,200

¹ Median Salary with 0-5 years experience
² Median Salary with 10+ years experience

Source: www.payscale.com/college-salary-report/all bachelors 2020-21