<p>Here is the evidence that an Ivy League education pays off in the long run: [Which</a> College Grads Earn the Most? - BusinessWeek](<a href=“Bloomberg - Are you a robot?”>Bloomberg - Are you a robot?)</p>
<p>Article Title: Which College Grads Earn the Most?
*"The starting median salary for a Yale graduate was $59,100, the 19th best starting salary in the nation and just behind the median salary for a recent graduate of Lehigh University, a highly selective private university in Bethlehem, Pa. But the midcareer median for a Yale graduate was $126,000, compared with $105,000 at Lehigh. </p>
<p>All of the Ivy League schools made the top 25. Other colleges on the list include Colgate, Stanford, University of Chicago, Bucknell, Georgetown, Notre Dame, Union College, Lehigh, Villanova, Vanderbilt, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Duke, New York University, and Rice. </p>
<p>Interestingly, median starting salaries for alumni of MIT, California Institute of Technology, and Harvey Mudd College, which have strong engineering programs, are the highest in the country ($75,500, $72,200, and $71,800). But the salaries do not get as high for midcareer professionals from those schools as they do for graduates of the elite liberal arts schools."*</p>
<p>It’s not just Investment Banking and Finance. There’s also medical. Brigham Young rigorously recruits people from Harvard, Memorial Sloan and Mount Sinai from Cornell and Columbia, Johns Hopkins frmo Duke, Princeton, and Dartmouth. Many top law (Bingham, Ropes & Gray) and psychology firms like recruit from Yale, Princeton, and Brown. Many top ranking and high paying dentistries recruit from UPenn, Dartmouth, and Columbia. Many international diplomats and ambassadors come from Dartmouth, Brown, Princeton, Harvard, Yale, etc. </p>
<p>Accounting, education, and some types of engineering are not considered the most professional areas. Medical, IT, and finance areas are considered the most professional.</p>