This is an article published at www.msn.com and, once in a while, they post pretty nice and interesting ones.
I rearranged it in order to ease the reading process for those who like to scroll down instead of click "Next Page" a million times (Please msn.com it's not so hard add a button called "View full article in one page").
The U.S. Census Bureau reported in September 2016 that real median household income was $55,775, this is the average for a whole house...
Make your own conclusions about the value of going to college...
Here the full article.
Bellow, the full list of colleges mentioned in the article:
| College |
Location |
Median salary 10 years after enrolling |
| Bowdoin College |
Brunswick, ME |
$54,800 |
| University of Michigan at Ann Arbor |
Ann Arbor, MI |
$57,900 |
| University of Virginia |
Charlottesville, VA |
$58,600 |
| University of California at Los Angeles |
Los Angeles, CA | $59,200 |
| Brown University |
Providence, RI | $59,700 |
| Rice University |
Houston, TX | $59,900 |
| Vanderbilt University |
Nashville, TN | $60,900 |
| Colgate University |
Hamilton, NY | $61,500 |
| Washington University in St. Louis |
St. Louis, MO | $62,300 |
| University of California at Berkeley |
Berkeley, CA | $62,700 |
| University of Chicago |
Chicago, IL | $62,800 |
| Northwestern University |
Evanston, IL | $64,100 |
| Yale University |
New Haven, CT | $66,000 |
| University of Southern California |
Los Angeles, CA | $66,100 |
| University of Notre Dame |
South Bend, IN | $69,400 |
| Cornell University |
Ithaca, NY | $70,900 |
| Columbia University |
New York, NY | $72,900 |
| Princeton University |
Princeton, NJ | $75,100 |
| Duke University |
Durham, NC | $76,700 |
| Washington and Lee University |
Lexington, VA | $77,600 |
| University of Pennsylvania |
Philadelphia | $78,200 |
| Stanford University |
Stanford, CA | $80,900 |
| Georgetown University |
Washington, D.C. | $83,300 |
| Harvard University |
Cambridge, MA | $87,200 |
| Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
Cambridge, MA | $91,600 |