WPI grads have No. 2 starting salary in Mass.
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WPI's campus is located near downtown Worcester.
Worcester Polytechnic Institute has beat a slew of Boston area schools in a new study examining starting salary for recent graduates in which it came in second in Massachusetts.
The study released by New York City data firm SmartAsset, ranked the schools in Massachusetts based on a starting salary index that takes into consideration average starting salary, tuition, average scholarships and grants, living costs and student retention rate. With those factors calculated, WPI beat out every school in the state other than the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, with WPI achieving a 68.24 on the index.
The study found that graduates of WPI achieve an average starting salary of $63,700, which was $2,000 more than third-place Harvard University in Cambridge, although significantly less than the $74,900 achieved on-average by recent MIT graduates.
The rest of the top 10 Massachusetts schools for starting salary, in order, are Babson College in Wellesley, Bentley University in Waltham, Massachusetts Maritime Academy in Buzzards Bay, Wentworth Institute of Technoloy in Boston, Northeastern University in Boston, Tufts University in Medford and American International College in Springfield.
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