The colleges with the highest earning graduates

The colleges with the highest earning graduatesThe colleges with the highest earning graduatesIts that time of year again when everyone takes the jump from college to the big leagues of the working world. After all, the whole point is to leave college with the skills needed to earn a high paying job. College loans do need to be paid off at the end of the day.To help with that calculation,Zippiaresearched a list of the top school in each state in terms of what graduates typically earn - looking specifically at the average of earnings ten years post-enrollment. As always, our data comes from theCollege Scorecardwho just updated their dataset for this year. You can see our lists of colleges with the highest earning graduates in each state for2018and2017for reference points.Follow Ladders on FlipboardFollow Ladders magazines on Flipboard covering Happiness, Productivity, Job Satisfaction, Neuroscience, and moreBelow is a list of each states highest earner in a table, but first, here are the colleges with the highest earning graduatesNew York SUNY Downstate Medical CenterMassachusetts Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyCalifornia Stanford UniversityTexas The University of Texas Health Science Center at HoustonPennsylvania University of PennsylvaniaIllinois Rush UniversityConnecticut Yale UniversityLouisiana Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center-ShreveportNew Jersey Princeton UniversityOregon Oregon Health Science UniversityUsing theDepartment of Education College Scorecard data, we searched for the college in each state with the highest average earnings for students ten years post enrollment. We limited the dataset to accredited, not-for-profit intuitions that are predominately undergraduate.Then, we sorted every college in the country from highest average salary to the lowest that had data on available for both data points.Finally, we selected the college with the highest earning graduates in each state. We display the average earnings alo ng with each college below.Ok, thats it Now, onto the list.This article first appeared on Zippia.