A report this morning on Yahoo! Finance finds that college students at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute who complete just a bachelor's degree do quite well in terms of earnings.
The school ranked 11th among the nation's colleges and universities in terms of mid-career median pay. Dartmouth was first, followed by MIT, Harvard, Harvey Mudd, and Princeton.
The data were collected over the past year by PayScale, a web site that collects salary information from different professions. The survey isn't random; 1.2 million users of the site self-reported their salaries.
The results also consider only those whose education went no further than the bachelor's level. Physicians, lawyers and others with advanced degrees weren't included.
RPI's mid-career median salary was $116,000, putting it in a three-way tie for 11th place with Duke University and Bucknell University. The starting median salary was $62,500, placing it eighth in the rankings.
