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Graduates Start Off with Salaries Higher than Ivy Leaguers
October 15, 2012
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Off To Quick Start: Rose-Hulman Institute
of Technology graduates start off making an average of $62,300, the
10th highest average on the 2013 PayScale.com salary
survey.
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by Dale
Long
Director of Media Relations
Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
graduates earn more in their first year out of college than those
students graduating from Harvard University and other Ivy League
universities, according to the 2013 PayScale.com
study.
Rose-Hulman ranked 10th on the list with
graduates starting out earning $62,300 -- $11,600 more than Harvard
($50,700).
PayScale has been producing its ranking
annually for the past eight years. Lead economist Katie Bardaro
says colleges that rank the highest tend to be those that
concentrate on engineering, nursing, and health
sciences.
Among Midwest colleges, Rose-Hulman ranked
second by salary potential to the University of Notre Dame in the
PayScale survey.
Engineering careers made up six of the top
10 majors with the highest salary potential, according to PayScale.
The top 10 were petroleum engineering, aerospace engineering,
actuarial mathematics, chemical engineering, nuclear engineering,
electrical engineering, computer engineering, applied mathematics,
computer science, and statistics.