Petroleum engineering majors and other graduates of Harvey Mudd College in California earn the highest salaries after graduating, CNNMoney.com reported. The data, which cited engineers, mathematicians and Ivy League graduates as the most financially successful, was released on Thursday by salary-tracker PayScale.com, Dartmouth graduates, who have been number one on the list for the past two years, fell to the number two ranking tied with graduates of Princeton University. The study found that the median starting salary of Dartmouth graduates is $54,000 and mid-career salary is $123,000. Harvard University, Stanford University and Duke University are also among the top ten institutions with the highest paid graduates. Although engineering was cited as the most financially rewarding major, less common professions such as zoology and film-making were also found to provide substantial sources of income, according to CNN.
The group of seven alumni currently suing the College Board of Trustees filed an appeal brief with the N.H. Supreme Court today, according to the plaintiff's lawyer, Eugene Van Loan. In the brief, the plaintiffs argued against the suit's dismissal by the Grafton County Superior Court this past January. The lawsuit was dismissed on the basis of "res judicata," which Grafton County Superior Court Judge Timothy Vaughan ruled barred the filing of the lawsuit. The lawsuit is the second legal challenge to the Board's 2007 decision to increase the size of the Board by adding Board-selected trustees without increasing the number of alumni-elected trustees, which the plaintiffs claim is a violation of an 1891 agreement to maintain parity between the two types of trustees. The same claim was filed in the first lawsuit, which was withdrawn "with prejudice" after a new Association of Alumni executive board was elected by the entire alumni body. Vaughan's ruling stated that the Association is a representative organization for the entire alumni body, and its withdrawal of the lawsuit prevents any group of individual alumni including these seven from re-filing the case. Once the appeal is officially submitted, the College will have until Sept. 1 to file its response brief to the New Hampshire Supreme Court, The Dartmouth previously reported.
