Since I agree with Cage that its about the education here are the top 30 schools by mid career pay. Northwestern and Virginia are ranked in the 800's
Harvey Mudd College $135,000
Caltech $127,000
Navy $122,000
West Point * $120,000
(MIT) $118,000
Babson College $117,000
Stanford University $114,000
Williams College $113,000
Notre Dame $111,000
Harvard University $111,000
Dartmouth College $111,000
Colgate University $111,000
SUNY Maritime College $109,000
Santa Clara University $108,000
Washington and Lee University $108,000
Yale University $105,000
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) $105,000
Columbia University $105,000
Colorado School of Mines $105,000
Swarthmore College $104,000
Vanderbilt University $104,000
Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) $104,000
Loyola University Maryland $104,000
Amherst College $104,000
Source Payscale | 
