NJIT Ranked Fourth among U.S. Public Research Universities for Mid-Career Earnings in PayScale’s New Annual Salary Report
Newark, NJ (PRWEB) October 07, 2014 -- New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) ranked fourth among all public research universities in the U.S. for mid-career earnings/salary of graduates with a bachelor’s degree, according to PayScale’s latest college salary report.
NJIT’s No. 4 ranking places it behind only University of California-Berkeley and Georgia Institute of Technology.
The 2014-2015 PayScale College Salary Report ranks undergraduate and two-year colleges by the highest-earning graduates. PayScale found that the mid-career median salary of an NJIT graduate with a bachelor’s degree is $103,200.
PayScale is an online compensation database. All data used to produce PayScale's rankings were collected from employees who completed PayScale's employee survey. Early-career starting salary data for each school was derived from surveys of full-time employees with five years of experience or fewer in their career or field who hold a bachelor's degree and no higher degrees. Mid-career salary data was derived from surveys of full-time employees with at least 10 years of experience in their career or field who hold a bachelor's degree and no higher degrees.
About NJIT
One of the nation’s leading public technological universities, New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) is a top-tier research university that prepares students to become leaders in the technology-dependent economy of the 21st century. NJIT’s multidisciplinary curriculum and computing-intensive approach to education provide technological proficiency, business acumen and leadership skills. With an enrollment of more than 10,000 graduate and undergraduate students, NJIT offers small-campus intimacy with the resources of a major public research university. NJIT is a global leader in such fields as solar research, nanotechnology, resilient design, tissue engineering and cyber-security, in addition to others. NJIT ranks fifth among U.S. polytechnic universities in research expenditures, topping $110 million.
Tanya Klein, New Jersey Institute of Technology, http://www.njit.edu, +1 973 596-3433, [email protected]
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