March Madness is well underway (sorry for the reminder, Georgetown fans), and with college acceptance letters just weeks away from flooding the inboxes of high-school seniors across the country, now is a good time to ask: How much money do graduates from those universities make, anyway?
Salary research organization PayScale surveyed alumni of the top 64 universities with men’s basketball teams participating in March Madness this year. A few notes about the data: Only graduates with 5 to 15 years of work experience were selected to give a portrait of mid-career salaries; unemployed and self-employed alumni were excluded. Median figures were used instead of averages (a wise decision, since many of the top sports heroes go on to make millions in the pros, which would skew the numbers).
Perhaps not surprisingly, Duke takes home the championship by a wide margin:
So how does your bracket stack up? See the full PayScale report here.
(via Economix)
