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For many people, the purpose of attending college is to land a high-paying job thereafter.

  1. 1. Princeton University
  2. 2. California Institute of Technology
  3. 3. Harvey Mudd College
  4. 4. Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  5. 5. Harvard University
  6. 6. Stanford University
  7. 7. Dartmouth College
  8. 8. Williams College
  9. 9. Yale University
  10. 10. University of Notre Dame
  11. 11. Columbia University
  12. 12. Brown University
  13. 13. Vanderbilt University
  14. 14. Amherst College
  15. 14. Swarthmore College
  16. 16. Carnegie Mellon University
  17. 17. Washington and Lee University
  18. 18. Colgate University
  19. 19. University of Pennsylvania
  20. 19. Duke University
  21. 21. Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
  22. 22. Cooper Union
  23. 23. Babson College
  24. 24. Cornell University
  25. 24. Tufts University
  26. 26. University of California, Berkeley
  27. 26. Lehigh University
  28. 28. Polytechnic Institute of New York University
  29. 29. Claremont McKenna College
  30. 30. U.S. Naval Academy
  31. 31. U.S. Military Academy
  32. 32. Boston College
  33. 33. Rice University
  34. 34. Stevens Institute of Technology
  35. 35. Georgia Institute of Technology
  36. 36. Haverford College
  37. 37. University of Southern California
  38. 38. Georgetown University
  39. 39. Colorado School of Mines
  40. 40. Wake Forest University
  41. 41. Davidson College
  42. 42. Bucknell University
  43. 42. College of the Holy Cross
  44. 44. Santa Clara University
  45. 45. Wesleyan University
  46. 46. Carleton College
  47. 46. Worcester Polytechnic Institute
  48. 48. College of William and Mary
  49. 49. U.S. Air Force Academy
  50. 50. Bates College
  51. 50. Rose Hulman Institute of Technology

PayScale.com publishes the average median mid-career salaries of graduates from almost every college in the U.S. This ranking accords 1/3 of the weight to the 75% SAT score (thinking that you want a selective school) and 2/3 of the weight to the PayScale rank.

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