<p>USC’s claim is a suspect. Their alumni are amongst the lowest paid, amongst the top 35 elite schools. </p>
<p>I’d say HYPSM + Caltech and Dartmouth
then
Duke, Notre Dame, Columbia, Penn, Berkeley, Brown, Northwestern, Michigan, Chicago, Georgetown and Cornell
then
UCLA, Virginia, NYU, Rice, Vanderbilt, CMU and Emory.</p>