Top Earnings Potential

Colleges whose graduates earn the highest median salaries after graduation.

Showing 1–50 of 3,663 colleges

Overall Best Value Top Earnings Most Selective Graduation Rate Best Public Best Private Largest

Rank	College	Location	Type	Median Earnings	Composite
1	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	Cambridge, Massachusetts	Private nonprofit	$143,372	97.6
2	California Institute of Technology	Pasadena, California	Private nonprofit	$128,566	94.2
3	Stanford University	Stanford, California	Private nonprofit	$124,080	93.2
4	Franklin W Olin College of Engineering	Needham, Massachusetts	Private nonprofit	$129,455	92.0
5	Harvey Mudd College	Claremont, California	Private nonprofit	$138,687	91.6
6	Babson College	Wellesley, Massachusetts	Private nonprofit	$123,938	89.5
7	Bentley University	Waltham, Massachusetts	Private nonprofit	$120,959	80.2
8	University of Health Sciences and Pharmacy in St. Louis	Saint Louis, Missouri	Private nonprofit	$137,047	70.0
9	Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences	Albany, New York	Private nonprofit	$131,426	68.6
10	Samuel Merritt University	Oakland, California	Private nonprofit	$143,238	67.5
11	Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine	Philadelphia, Pennsylvania	Private nonprofit	$138,767	67.5
12	Roseman University of Health Sciences	Henderson, Nevada	Private nonprofit	$120,163	67.5
13	MCPHS University	Boston, Massachusetts	Private nonprofit	$125,557	62.1
14	Los Angeles County College of Nursing and Allied Health	Los Angeles, California	Public	$115,318	65.9
15	Carnegie Mellon University	Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania	Private nonprofit	$114,862	89.7
16	Gnomon	North Hollywood, California	Private for-profit	$114,785	68.7
17	University of Pennsylvania	Philadelphia, Pennsylvania	Private nonprofit	$111,371	91.9
18	Helene Fuld College of Nursing	New York, New York	Private nonprofit	$111,027	71.5
19	Princeton University	Princeton, New Jersey	Private nonprofit	$110,066	92.1
20	SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University	Brooklyn, New York	Public	$109,601	63.9
21	Santa Clara University	Santa Clara, California	Private nonprofit	$109,183	77.9
22	Stevens Institute of Technology	Hoboken, New Jersey	Private nonprofit	$108,772	78.1
23	Lehigh University	Bethlehem, Pennsylvania	Private nonprofit	$105,584	81.2
24	Touro University California	Vallejo, California	Private nonprofit	$104,805	62.2
25	Touro University Nevada	Henderson, Nevada	Private nonprofit	$104,805	62.2
26	Claremont McKenna College	Claremont, California	Private nonprofit	$104,736	87.1
27	St Paul's School of Nursing-Queens	Rego Park, New York	Private for-profit	$104,403	60.2
28	Cornell University	Ithaca, New York	Private nonprofit	$104,043	87.9
29	Weill Medical College of Cornell University	New York, New York	Private nonprofit	$104,043	61.9
30	Boston College	Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts	Private nonprofit	$103,937	84.3
31	Georgetown University	Washington, District of Columbia	Private nonprofit	$103,494	89.4
32	Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Worcester, Massachusetts	Private nonprofit	$103,470	72.5
33	Georgia Institute of Technology-Main Campus	Atlanta, Georgia	Public	$102,772	84.5
34	West Coast University-Orange County	Anaheim, California	Private for-profit	$102,672	64.2
35	West Coast University-Ontario	Ontario, California	Private for-profit	$102,672	63.7
36	West Coast University-Los Angeles	North Hollywood, California	Private for-profit	$102,672	61.4
37	West Coast University-Texas	Richardson, Texas	Private for-profit	$102,672	61.4
38	West Coast University-Miami	Doral, Florida	Private for-profit	$102,672	61.4
39	West Coast University-Center for Graduate Studies	Los Angeles, California	Private for-profit	$102,672	61.4
40	Columbia University in the City of New York	New York, New York	Private nonprofit	$102,491	88.4
41	Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute	Troy, New York	Private nonprofit	$102,051	72.1
42	Rensselaer at Hartford	Hartford, Connecticut	Private nonprofit	$102,051	61.2
43	Harvard University	Cambridge, Massachusetts	Private nonprofit	$101,817	89.2
44	Lawrence Memorial Hospital School of Nursing	Medford, Massachusetts	Private nonprofit	$101,466	61.0
45	Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology	Terre Haute, Indiana	Private nonprofit	$101,253	65.0
46	Oregon Health & Science University	Portland, Oregon	Public	$101,028	60.9
47	Yale University	New Haven, Connecticut	Private nonprofit	$100,533	88.6
48	Villanova University	Villanova, Pennsylvania	Private nonprofit	$100,423	80.9
49	University of Notre Dame	Notre Dame, Indiana	Private nonprofit	$99,980	86.1
50	Cochran School of Nursing	Yonkers, New York	Private nonprofit	$99,503	60.3

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