College Scorecard CS median salaries 4 years out of college taken out from IRS
CMU beats every Ivy, and the range within elite schools is wider than you'd expect.
National Universities:
| # | University | Median Earnings |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Carnegie Mellon University | $268,121 |
| 2 | University of Pennsylvania | $241,380 |
| 3 | University of California--Los Angeles | $228,705 |
| 4 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | $225,141 |
| 5 | Cornell University | $223,309 |
| 6 | Princeton University | $217,973 |
| 7 | Stanford University | $214,907 |
| 8 | Brown University | $214,479 |
| 9 | University of California--Berkeley | $204,379 |
| 10 | Harvard University | $203,169 |
| 11 | Dartmouth College | $201,702 |
| 12 | California Institute of Technology | $200,511 |
| 13 | Johns Hopkins University | $196,467 |
| 14 | Duke University | $195,809 |
| 15 | Columbia University | $194,365 |
| 16 | University of Southern California | $192,897 |
| 17 | Yale University | $188,157 |
| 18 | Rice University | $182,443 |
| 19 | University of Illinois--Urbana-Champaign | $181,981 |
| 20 | University of Chicago | $178,068 |
| 21 | Washington University in St. Louis | $177,066 |
| 22 | University of Washington | $175,616 |
| 23 | University of Michigan--Ann Arbor | $172,904 |
| 24 | Santa Clara University | $163,765 |
| 25 | Northwestern University | $163,740 |
| 26 | Northeastern University | $163,708 |
| 27 | Vanderbilt University | $160,021 |
| 28 | Emory University | $159,541 |
| 29 | University of California--San Diego | $159,487 |
| 30 | Tufts University | $156,343 |
| 31 | University of Rochester | $155,464 |
| 32 | University of Texas--Austin | $155,168 |
| 33 | University of Maryland--College Park | $152,422 |
| 34 | George Washington University | $150,716 |
| 35 | Georgia Institute of Technology | $150,628 |
| 36 | University of California--Santa Barbara | $149,190 |
| 37 | University of Virginia | $148,175 |
| 38 | Stony Brook University | $147,064 |
| 39 | Purdue University--West Lafayette | $146,685 |
| 40 | University of California--Davis | $145,422 |
| 41 | Virginia Tech | $144,103 |
| 42 | Georgetown University | $143,900 |
| 43 | Case Western Reserve University | $143,580 |
| 44 | Boston College | $143,204 |
| 45 | University of Notre Dame | $142,970 |
| 46 | New York University | $142,495 |
| 47 | Lehigh University | $141,691 |
| 48 | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute | $141,528 |
| 49 | Rochester Institute of Technology | $138,679 |
| 50 | Stevens Institute of Technology | $138,468 |
| 51 | University of Utah | $137,329 |
| 52 | University of North Carolina--Chapel Hill | $137,047 |
| 53 | Boston University | $136,667 |
| 54 | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | $134,208 |
| 55 | University of California--Irvine | $132,357 |
| 56 | Villanova University | $130,585 |
| 57 | Texas A&M University--College Station | $129,401 |
| 58 | University of Florida | $128,140 |
| 59 | William & Mary | $127,851 |
| 60 | Rutgers University--New Brunswick | $125,303 |
| 61 | University of California--Santa Cruz | $124,641 |
| 62 | Ohio State University | $123,731 |
| 63 | University of Massachusetts--Amherst | $123,519 |
| 64 | Brandeis University | $123,460 |
| 65 | University of Colorado--Boulder | $121,952 |
| 66 | University of Miami | $121,589 |
| 67 | Oregon State University | $121,405 |
| 68 | Syracuse University | $120,773 |
| 69 | Pennsylvania State University--University Park | $120,729 |
| 70 | University of Illinois Chicago | $120,470 |
| 71 | University of Wisconsin--Madison | $120,068 |
| 72 | University of Minnesota--Twin Cities | $119,781 |
| 73 | George Mason University | $117,942 |
| 74 | University of California--Riverside | $117,705 |
| 75 | University of Arizona | $117,451 |
| 76 | Michigan State University | $116,905 |
| 77 | University of Nebraska--Lincoln | $116,221 |
| 78 | Wake Forest University | $115,493 |
| 79 | Arizona State University | $114,868 |
| 80 | Indiana University--Bloomington | $114,199 |
| 81 | North Carolina State University | $113,478 |
| 82 | University of Delaware | $111,520 |
| 83 | University of Pittsburgh | $110,417 |
| 84 | University at Buffalo--SUNY | $109,221 |
| 85 | University of Texas at Dallas | $109,015 |
| 86 | University of Georgia | $107,397 |
| 87 | University of Central Florida | $106,680 |
| 88 | University of Tennessee--Knoxville | $106,312 |
| 89 | Iowa State University | $105,753 |
| 90 | UC Merced | $102,575 |
| 91 | University of Iowa | $88,264 |
Liberal Arts Colleges (wherever data is available)
| # | LAC | Median Earnings |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pomona College | $217,051 |
| 2 | Williams College | $209,574 |
| 3 | Harvey Mudd College | $198,257 |
| 4 | Wellesley College | $177,213 |
| 5 | Colgate University | $161,980 |
| 6 | Bucknell University | $156,885 |
| 7 | Swarthmore College | $150,942 |
| 8 | Amherst College | $142,680 |
| 9 | Bowdoin College | $137,611 |
| 10 | Oberlin College | $129,395 |
| 11 | Middlebury College | $128,471 |
| 12 | Vassar College | $124,469 |
| 13 | St. Olaf College | $122,912 |
| 14 | Carleton College | $121,569 |
| 15 | Mount Holyoke College | $120,021 |
| 16 | University of Richmond | $112,621 |
| 17 | Grinnell College | $109,892 |
| 18 | Macalester College | $109,457 |
| 19 | Skidmore College | $104,708 |
| 20 | Lake Forest College | $77,554 |
Caveats
- College Scorecard only includes graduates who received Federal Title IV aid (Pell grants and/or federal subsidized/unsubsidized loans). International students, full-pay domestic students, and anyone else who didn't take Title IV aid are excluded.
- The earnings figures come from IRS tax records — W-2 Box 1 (wages/tips/comp) and Box 12 (deferred comp), plus Schedule SE of Form 1040 for self-employment — not self-reported surveys. This tends to run more accurate than survey-based rankings, since self-reported income skews high (bigger earners are more likely to respond).
- The location of each graduate's job isn't known, so none of this is adjusted for cost of living.
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