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The 17 US colleges where students earn over $75,000 a year a decade after attending

KATHLEEN ELKINSDec 15, 2015, 21:41 IST

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Via Wikimedia CommonsGraduates from the University of Pennsylvania go on to make an average of $78,200 each year.

The median household income in the US is $53,657. If your salary exceeds $75,000 a decade after starting college, then, you're doing pretty well for yourself.

A handful of US colleges have prepared their graduates to do just that, according to a recent report from the Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce.

The report used the US Department of Education's College Scorecard to highlight the median earnings of students from over 1,400 colleges 10 years after starting their studies.

Here, we've gathered the 17 colleges where graduates are earning over $75,000 a year: