The Best College to Get Rich
By Zul • Aug 5th, 2008 • Category: Career •
Dartmouth College in New Hampshire, United States is named as the best college to get rich, a survey by PayScale.com revealed.
Princeton University came second, followed by Stanford, Yale, MIT and Harvard University.
The survey collected the salary of the college alumni with between 10 to 20 years of experience, and the mean, median and maximum salaries were analyzed and compared.
Dartmouth came on top with a median annual pay of $134,000 ($11,200 monthly). The top earners were reported to be earning more than $321,000 ($26,750 per month).
Employers are often in the chase to recruit graduates from Dartmouth, including top companies such as Goldman Sachs, McKinsey and Co., Accenture, Lehman Brothers, Bain, Merrill Lynch, JP Morgan and so on. Many of them offers lucrative start up pay for the graduates.
While not all the Dartmouth students will be fortunate enough to land high paying first job upon graduation, the college ability to produce well-rounded graduates allow them to move up the corporate ladder easily and soon move into big money jobs.
Dartmouth is also home to the prestigious business school, the Tuck School of Business, which was recently ranked as the best business school in United States for the 2007/2008 academic season, with Harvard and Stanford trailing behind.
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