Top 20 Engineering Schools by Salary

Do you see your alma mater here? There are new schools in the 2024 listings.

Rob Spiegel

March 26, 2024

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University of Tulsa
University of Tulsa

At a Glance

  • The highest salaries go to engineers
  • Here are the schools that produce the highest paid engineers

Payscale is out with new data on which engineering graduates are getting top salaries. Payscale notes that engineering schools usually win the top marks in the company’s College Salary Report. Engineering graduates leave school with a specific, applicable set of skills that are in demand. And given the shortage of engineers in industrial North America, employers are willing to pay top dollar even for new graduates. While starting salaries are impressive, even more important, mid-level salaries are nearly double starting salaries.

In ranking schools by the salaries of its graduates, Payscale ranks by the mid-career number, since engineers will spend most of their career earning these higher salaries.

Some of the most famous engineering schools in the US are on the list, including the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), the United States Naval Academy, Columbia University, and Stanford.

About the Author

Rob Spiegel

Rob Spiegel

Rob Spiegel serves as a senior editor for Design News. He started with Design News in 2002 as a freelancer covering sustainability issues, including the transistion in electronic components to RoHS compliance. Rob was hired by Design News as senior editor in 2011 to cover automation, manufacturing, 3D printing, robotics, AI, and more.

Prior to his work with Design News, Rob worked as a senior editor for Electronic News and Ecommerce Business. He served as contributing editolr to Automation World for eight years, and he has contributed to Supply Chain Management Review, Logistics Management, Ecommerce Times, and many other trade publications. He is the author of six books on small business and internet commerce, inclluding Net Strategy: Charting the Digital Course for Your Company's Growth.

He has been published in magazines that range from Rolling Stone to True Confessions.

Rob has won a number of awards for his technolloghy coverage, including a Maggy Award for a Design News article on the Jeep Cherokee hacking, and a Launch Team award for Ecommerce Business. Rob has also won awards for his leadership postions in the American Marketing Association and SouthWest Writers.

Before covering technology, Rob spent 10 years as publisher and owner of Chile Pepper Magazine, a national consumer food publication. He has published hundreds of poems and scores of short stories in national publications.

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