PayScale's Party Schools With The Highest Mid-Career Salaries

Who says that having fun in college won't get you a high-paying job in the end?

The salary website PayScale surveyed 1,003 colleges and ranked them for the highest mid-year career salary. Then, they measured those numbers against the Princeton Review's party school rankings, coming up with a list of party schools that pay.

Check out a slide show of the top ten party schools that pay. Then tell us what you think in the comments section.

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University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) $94,300

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[Camille Michelle]

02:01 PM on 08/03/2011

Before I even opened this, I 100% knew UMD would be here. That's mah school!

[Bravofett]

01:06 PM on 07/29/2011

This is no surprise to my wallet, Go Gauchos!!

[Pepper MD]

10:49 PM on 07/25/2011

To be fair, not everybody at a party school parties. At the University of Texas at least 30% of the people there are nerds who went to UT thinking they'd be partying. They're the ones pulling up those average salaries come graduation.

[scott456]

10:28 PM on 07/25/2011

Woo-hoo! Gauchos number 2!

[gunfighter2]

08:59 AM on 07/25/2011

Now that they are partying, what about the education they are supposed administer? And the education loan companies, bet they are also partying.

[Joann Schaefer Donahue]

08:11 AM on 07/25/2011

and how long will it take to pay off the debt accumulated with that party school

[gunfighter2]

09:00 AM on 07/25/2011

For the rest of their lives.

[gunfighter2]

07:05 AM on 07/25/2011

The head line was misleading, Party schools? Of course when reading about the salaries the staffs draw, I can see why they would party. But the student bodies are facing tuition increases and other costs and the increase of fees . . . hell yes, its party time for the staff of those colleges.

[Elise Hokman]

06:46 AM on 07/25/2011

Goooooooo 'Eeers!!

[TicTucTo]

07:02 AM on 07/24/2011

Bahahahaha... I knew Penn State would be on there.

[ABACADABRA RABBIT]

02:25 AM on 07/24/2011

UCSB rocks.

[Mike Ohrnstein]

10:41 AM on 08/01/2011

Ole!!

[markopolio]

04:02 PM on 07/23/2011

Yeah CU, gettin' on all the college lists that matter

[Merciful Wrath]

01:49 PM on 07/23/2011

Every ivy league college, stop hiring drunken whorish idiots from those schools! Entitlement children is all they are. These schools have a grip on our presidency and government and look where it has gotten us. Obama is no different, but of course we can't see his records (including how he got in and PAID) and should not be satisfied with any thing he "learned" there.

[TaikongXiongmao]

03:51 AM on 07/23/2011

Is there a reason the picture chosen for U of I is of Kappa Sigma, one of the campus fraternities? All the other schools seem to have pictures of academic buildings...

[rhinestoneCowboy]

01:10 PM on 07/25/2011

Yes, because while in school the members of this fraternity were both the biggest partiers and had the best grades. Statistics show that they are also now outearning their alumni peers by such a significant margin that it would have been misleading to *not* have featured the fraternity house as the representative photo for UIUC.

[illinifan12]

12:01 PM on 07/29/2011

That's actually completely inaccurate, as the Kappa Sigmas of Illinois aren't frequent partiers, are rather strange, and aren't known to be gentlemen.

The most likely reason I can think of is that UIUC has the greatest number of Greek students in the nation, with 25 sororities and 46 fraternities. So in fact, this photo is representative of the university.

[stine10]

10:13 PM on 07/22/2011

To this I say Go Green and Hook 'em!

[ubernerd83]

09:06 PM on 07/22/2011

At DPU, our official school song is actually a drunken dirge: "A Toast to Old DePauw." Also, Otis Day and the Knights played "Shout" at an actual toga party when I was there.