WALL STREET JOURNAL: Top Colleges for High-Paying Jobs in Finance
April 11, 2023
By Kailyn Rhone
Graduates of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who go into finance earn higher salaries than other schools’ graduates in the field, according to a ranking compiled by the Burning Glass Institute, a nonprofit that researches employment trends.
The top public university for finance salaries in the new ranking is the University of Virginia.
The ranking aims to answer the question: If the choice of career and the number of years in the field are the same, what effect does the school somebody went to have on their salary?
The answer for graduates of MIT, according to the ranking, is a premium averaging more than $48,000 a year over 10 years compared with what the median B.A. graduate working in finance earns, according to Burning Glass. The median graduate’s average annual salary over those 10 years is $96,751…
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