Wall Street Journal’s 2025 Best Colleges In America

by: Kristy Bleizeffer on September 05, 2024 | 116,575 Views

SCHOOLS RANKED BY SALARY IMPACT

Here, five of the top 20 schools are public institutions, including Georgia Institute of Technology which ranked No. 9 overall.

Still, the Ivies and big brand powerhouses still dominate. Massachusetts Institute of Technology comes out on top with a salary score of 99.3.

The salary impact rating looks at the impact the school has on its graduates’ salaries in relation to the cost of attending. While the schools at the top generally have high price tags, the salaries their graduates earn 10 years later make up for the high cost.

Below, you can see the 20 schools with the highest salary impact from WSJ’s ranking.

WSJ/College Pulse Top 20 For Salary Impact
Rank
School
State
Type
Score
1 Massachusetts Institute of Technology MA Private 99.3
2 Stanford University CA Private 98.4
3 Princeton University NJ Private 97.9
4 Georgia Institute of Technology, Main Campus GA Public 97.6
5 University of Pennsylvania PA Private 97.4
6 California Institute of Technology CA Private 96.6
7 Harvey Mudd College CA Private 96.6
8 Babson College MA Private 96.2
9 Missouri University of Science and Technology MO Public 96
10 Carnegie Mellon University PA Private 95.1
11 Claremont McKenna College CA Private 94.9
12 Milwaukee School of Engineering WI Private 94.7
13 Lehigh University PA Private 94.6
14 Bentley University MA Private 94.5
15 Michigan Technological University MI Public 94.2
16 Colorado School of Mines CO Public 94.1
17 San José State University CA Public 93.7
18 Yale University CT Private 93.5
19 Kettering University MI Private 92.8
20 Manhattan College NY Private 92.8
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