What BME Graduates Earn, School by School

Top 25 programs with a published figure, early-career median earnings four years after completion. Hover a dot for details.

Not published for Caltech, Stanford and Cornell (small or suppressed cohorts). Medians cover graduates working and not enrolled four years after completion; four-year figures are early-career measures, not long-term earnings. Source: U.S. Department of Education College Scorecard, CIP 14.05, bachelor’s level, as compiled in the College Transitions 2026 Biomedical Engineering Ranking.

Rank	Institution	Median earnings	Earnings & ROI pctl
3	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	$116,182	100.0
8	Northwestern University	$108,516	92.6
6	University of Pennsylvania	$105,728	98.6
24	University of Southern California	$104,579	93.2
2	Johns Hopkins University	$101,300	92.6
1	Duke University	$100,584	94.4
12	Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute	$98,618	95.2
25	University of California-Los Angeles	$97,038	85.9
15	University of California-San Diego	$96,808	87.4
11	Vanderbilt University	$94,340	88.6
5	University of Virginia-Main Campus	$94,301	85.9
19	North Carolina State University at Raleigh	$92,574	72.0
4	Georgia Institute of Technology-Main Campus	$89,405	91.0
7	Worcester Polytechnic Institute	$88,871	89.5
21	Drexel University	$88,294	80.8
9	Case Western Reserve University	$88,056	81.4
13	University of Rochester	$86,302	75.9
16	Lehigh University	$84,975	86.8
10	Boston University	$84,960	77.4
14	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor	$84,138	77.7
23	University of California-Irvine	$82,806	73.9
18	Stevens Institute of Technology	$82,175	83.0