Payscale.com just finished a study that ranked the top colleges graduates earnings following graduation.  They did this for private and public universities and for three different groups: 0 to 5 yrs after graduation, 10 to 20 yrs after graduation and top 10% of grads 10 to 20 yrs after graduation. 

The top school following graduation was Dartmouth with salaries for the 3 groups listed above at $58,000, $134,000 and $321,000.  The top public school was Univ of CA-Berkeley with salaries of $60,000, $112,000 and $201,000. 

The list of top private colleges doesn’t have many surprises in it.  You’ve probably heard of all of them except maybe #9 and #10.  And with the tuition at those top schools, you ought to make more after graduation for the tuition to be justified.

1 ) Dartmouth

2 ) Princeton

3 ) Stanford

4 ) Yale

5 ) MIT

6 ) Harvard

7 ) Univ of Pennsylvania

8 ) Univ of Notre Dame

9 ) Polytechnic Univ of New York – Brooklyn

10 ) Worcester Polytechnic Institute

11) Univ of Chicago

The list of top public colleges is made up of many Univ of California schools.  UCLA costs between $20,000 and $45,000 per yr to attend and once again, that money ought to be justified by higher salaries coming out of the school.  Ohio State University, where I grew up, costs between $5,000 and $20,000.  Much less than the CA schools. 

Note: Not surprisingly, the founder of this website (who in certain circles is known simply as “The Horse”) attended one of the schools on the below list.

1 ) UC-Berkeley

2 ) Univ of Virginia

3 ) UC-LA

4 ) CA Polytechnic, San Luis Obispo

5 ) UC-San Diego

6 ) UC-Davis

7 ) Univ of Colorado-Boulder

8 ) UC-Irvine

9 ) Univ of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign

10 ) Texas A&M

11 ) State Univ of NY-Binghampton 

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