Best Massachusetts Colleges for Graduate Salary

Graduates brag about their college's alumni, sports victories and rankings in various publications. But if you need a trump card in an argument with a pal from a rival college, you may be able to find one here.

The College Scorecard ranks colleges nationwide in a number of ways. One fun (or not, depending on where you went) exercise is to check out the average salary after attending. All College Scorecard data is verified by the U.S. Department of Education.

The average salary after attending is defined like this: "The median earnings of former students who received federal financial aid, at 10 years after entering the school."

In Massachusetts, the usual suspects can be found at the top three spots: Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, Harvard, and MIT. For the full list, click below.

The list also provides the average annual cost of attending and graduation rate.

Here's the Top 20:

1. MCPHS - $113,400
2. Harvard - $95,000
3. MIT - $89,200
4. Babson - $86,700
5. WPI - $80,300
6. Bentley - $76,900
7. Mass. Maritime - $69,000
8. BC - $66,700
9. Tufts - $65,000
10. Holy Cross - $63,100
11. Northeastern - $61,700
12. BU - $59,900
13. Stonehill - $58,500
14. Brandeis - $56,800
15. Wentworth - $56,700
16. Western N.E. University - $56,500 (tie with Wellesley)
17. Wellesley - $56,500 (tie with Western N.E.)
18. Amherst - $56,300
19. Merrimack - $55,900
20. Laboure - $55,800

>>>Click here for the full list<<<