The highest paid graduates by state (Big 3 included)

[Life Long Learning]

Big 3 rated by Payscale.

Early Career:
Excelsior College $57,300
TESU $50,400
COSC $40,400

Mid-Career:
TESU $90,500
Excelsior College $71,600
COSC $62,100

https://www.payscale.com/college-salary-...s-by-state

The one item they do not consider is retirements.  Tons of Excelsior College grads have military retirements on top of new second and third careers.  I have two myself!  My current career (and will be 3rd retirement) pay is above these figures.  The Big 3 grads do well if they apply themselves.  

I really like how the dozen State "Merchant Marine Academy's" kick ass and rank at the top of their States.  What other colleges have 95% of 22-year old grads with real jobs BEFORE they graduate and starting at $75,000+?    If I was young today I would go there and not to a PAC-12 University of Starbucks.

[Ideas]

Also, Excelsior has a lot of LPNs (and medics) getting their RNs, and RNs upgrading to a BSN. RNs have high starting salaries compared to most other jobs.

[ttower]

Those numbers mean nothing. I already make more than all of those. If I go ahead and get my BSBA through TESU and they add my income into these numbers, they may go up but not because I got my BS.

[burbuja0512]

A couple comments.. I haven't looked at this, but another factor could be % of women versus men graduating. Of course how many people graduating from the higher dollar majors is important to0.

But really the whole thing is totally stupid IMHO because it's what you DO wit your degree. If you just want the checkbox so you feel secure, great! Or, if you want to use that checkbox to climb the ladder in grad school, and your career, then it doesn't really matter where you went.