{"id":4227,"date":"2015-08-27T12:32:07","date_gmt":"2015-08-27T19:32:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about-hmc\/?p=4227"},"modified":"2017-03-09T08:27:12","modified_gmt":"2017-03-09T16:27:12","slug":"harvey-mudd-college-ranks-second-in-nation-for-graduates-mid-career-earning-potential","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/2015\/08\/27\/harvey-mudd-college-ranks-second-in-nation-for-graduates-mid-career-earning-potential\/","title":{"rendered":"Harvey Mudd College Ranks Second in Nation for Graduates\u2019 Mid-career Earning Potential"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Harvey Mudd College alumni earn the second highest mid-career salaries of all U.S. college and university graduates pursuing careers with a bachelor\u2019s as a final degree, according to\u00a0PayScale\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.payscale.com\/college-salary-report\">2015-16 College Salary Report<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Harvey Mudd ranked No. 2 with a median mid-career salary of $133,000, only $1,000 less than the No. 1 ranked SUNY \u2013 Maritime College. Previously, Harvey Mudd had taken the top spot for three consecutive years. Coming in third was Harvard University tied with the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis at $126,000, followed by California Institute of Technology (Caltech) at $125,000 and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) at $124,000.<\/p>\n<p>PayScale, an online salary information company, defines mid-career salaries as 10 or more years of experience in a field.<\/p>\n<p>Harvey Mudd ranked No. 1 for the fourth year in a row\u00a0for overall college return on investment in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.payscale.com\/college-roi\/\">PayScale\u2019s 2015 College ROI Report,<\/a>\u00a0a separate report published each spring.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Harvey Mudd College alumni earn the second highest mid-career salaries of all U.S. college and university graduates pursuing careers with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":4122,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[967],"class_list":["post-4227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general-feed"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4227\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}