HOUSTON — Alumni of most Houston-area universities earn more four years after graduating than their peers nationwide.
Coming in at No. 1 for Greater Houston is Rice University, with a median annual income of $110,080 for graduates four years after they leave campus, according to the latest data from the U.S. Department of Education’s College Scorecard. The newest data includes salary information from the 2017-2018 and 2018-19 cohorts, which includes young career professionals who came into the workforce shortly before or right around the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020.
Rice graduates are making almost twice as much as the national average for alumni of four-year universities, which stands at $60,428. Among Texas universities, excluding for-profit schools, Rice graduates’ earnings are second only to the $119,000 median annual income of University of North Texas Health Science Center alumni.
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