UC Graduates Double Their Salaries: Study

CALIFORNIA -- Those who attended from a University of California school are doing well after graduation, according to a new study released this week. The annual UC Accountability Report found all graduates, regardless of field or discipline, see their earnings double between two and 10 years after graduation.

The study also found that within five years of graduation, a majority of low-income students will earn more than their parents, UC officials said in a press release.

Within five years of graduating, a majority of UC’s low-income students earn more than their parents.
“It’s one of the indicators that shows how a UC education creates economic mobility for its students,” Pamela Brown, UC’s vice president for Institutional Research and Academic Planning, told the UC Board of Regents earlier this month.

Brown and a team of researchers have been gathering and analyzing data among alumni to see how they do after they graduate. Among the data collected includes how their earnings change over time and whether low-income students move up the economic ladder, a press release said.

Among the two million living alumni, researchers found:

• Students from families in the bottom 20 percent of incomes go on to earn as much as students from middle-income families
• A third of low-income students do even better — moving from the bottom 20 percent of incomes into the top 20 percent

For more information, check out the UC Accountability Report here.

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