Top 20 Engineering Schools by Salary – 2023 VersionTop 20 Engineering Schools by Salary – 2023 Version

Payscale has released new data that ranks the top engineering schools based on early- and mid-career salaries.

Rob Spiegel

April 27, 2023

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Payscale notes that engineering schools usually win 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 for even new graduates. While starting salaries are impressive, even more important, mid-level salaries are nearly double starting salaries.

Some of the most famous engineering schools in the United States are on the list, including the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), the United States Naval Academy, the Georgia Institute of Technology, and Carnegie-Mellon University.

For the report, engineering schools are defined as any school (public or private) that grants more than 50 percent of its undergraduate degrees in math, sciences, computer science, and engineering majors. To compare apples to apples, Payscale measures salaries based on those who hold bachelor’s degrees.

To take engineering salaries a bit deeper, we’ve included a YouTube video by Shane Hummus that breaks down engineering salaries by discipline.

 

About the Author

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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