The gender wage gap is real – even when looking at pay differences between men and women who graduate from America’s leading colleges and universities.
That’s the finding of BusinessStudent.com, which recently announced results of a study it did of 117 schools ranked among the highest by U.S. News & World Report. Among workers who started college within six years prior, graduated and began working, men earned an average $59,000 a year and women made an average $48,000 annually – 19% less.
Other key findings:
· The widest gender gap by far was at Brigham Young University, where male graduates earned 57 percent more than female graduates. Princeton and Wake Forest universities rounded out the bottom three.
· Male graduates earned at last 30 percent more than female graduates at some schools, including Williams College and Stanford, Princeton and Carnegie Mellon universities.
· Three schools reported higher earnings for female graduates than male: Clark University, Yale University and Stevens Institute of Technology in New Jersey.
Researchers used data from the U.S. Department of Education’s College Scorecard and excluded schools that didn’t report wage data.
