PROVIDENCE – Brown University tops the list regionally for four-year colleges and universities with the highest-paid bachelor’s degree graduates, according to PayScale Inc.
According to its 2015-2016 college salary report, which lists more than 1,000 schools, PayScale ranked SUNY Maritime College in New York first, with early-career salaries of $65,200 and mid-career salaries of $134,000. Harvey Mudd College, in Claremont, Calif., was second with salaries of $78,200 and $133,000.
Harvard University came in third, tying the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis, with $61,400 for early-career graduates and $126,000 for mid-career graduates. The naval academy edged Harvard in the early-career category, however, at $78,200.
Ranked 35th on a list of more than 1,000 schools, Brown tied two other schools in the ranking, Lehigh University and Massachusetts Maritime Academy.
Early-career graduates earn $57,100 a year at Brown, while mid-career graduates can make $108,000 a year.
For two-year colleges, the Community College of Rhode Island earned a rank of 39, with its early-career graduates earning $39,800 and mid-career salaries at $61,900.
The only local school not ranked is Wheaton College in Norton, Mass.
The full list of rankings can be found at www.payscale.com.
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Other local schools were ranked as follows:
Two-year schools
- Community College of Rhode Island, 39th rank; early-career salary, $39,800; mid-career, $61,900.
Four-year schools
- Brown University, 35th rank; early-career salary, $51,700; mid-career, $108,000.
- Bryant University, 107th rank; early-career salary, $52,400; mid-career, $93,700.
- Stonehill College, 108th rank; early-career salary,$44,400; mid-career $93,400. Tied with Fashion Institute of Technology.
- University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth, 164th rank; early-career salary, $46,500; mid-career,$88,900. Tied with Fordham University, The New School and University of Tulsa.
- Providence College, 198th rank; early-career salary, $51,900; mid-career $86,700. Tied with Centre College of Kentucky, Montana Tech of the University of Montana and University of Washington – Tacoma.
- University of Rhode Island, 233rd rank; early-career salary, $48,700; mid-career, $84,900.
- Rhode Island School of Design, 282nd rank; $45,500 and $82,800. Tied with Monmouth University in New Jersey.
- New England Institute of Technology, 388th rank; $48,600and $78,200. Tied withCUNY Hunter College, Clarion University of Pennsylvania, Cleveland State University and School of Visual Arts in New York City.
- Roger Williams University, 514th rank; $47,900 and $74,000. Tied with Augusta State University, Biola University, Franciscan University of Steubenville, Texas Wesleyan University, University of Nevada at Reno and Xavier University of Louisiana.
- Rhode Island College, 743rd rank; $39,800 and $67,000.
- Johnson & Wales University, 787th rank; $41,600 and $65,800. Tied with Middle Tennessee State University and University of Nebraska at Kearney.
- Salve Regina University, 869th rank; $48,300 and $62,900. Tied with Alverno College.
