Colleges in Indiana With the Highest Graduate Earnings
Median earnings four years after graduation at the 39 four-year colleges we rank in Indiana run from $100,684 at the top to $44,750 at the bottom, a spread of $55,934.
The median college sits at $58,030, within a few percent of the national median of $59,403. Public colleges (12) have a median of $57,859 and private nonprofit colleges (27) a median of $59,762, and the typical net price across the list is $19,932.
University of Notre Dame ranks first at $100,684, ahead of Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology ($97,780) and Purdue University-Main Campus ($81,751).
How this list is built
A college appears here only if it meets every condition below.
- Colleges considered
- All 4-year colleges (public, private nonprofit and for-profit)
- Ranked by earnings after 4 years, highest first. Ties are broken by larger undergraduate enrollment, then by name.
- Main campuses only, with at least 60% of core data fields reported
- Main campus located in Indiana
- At least 500 undergraduate students enrolled (fall 2024)
- A reported earnings after 4 years value (schools without one are not ranked)
- This page is published only when at least 15 schools qualify; Indiana has 39
- Data period
- Earnings: median earnings four years after completing, measured in 2022 and 2023 for the 2017-18 and 2018-19 cohorts, in 2024 dollars.
- Net price: average for students receiving aid, academic year 2023-24.
- Graduate debt: median federal loan debt of completers, pooled 2020 and 2021 cohorts.
- Graduation rate: first-time, full-time students who started in fall 2018 (4-year) or fall 2021 (2-year), finishing within 150% of normal time.
- Enrollment: undergraduate students, fall 2024.
- Source: U.S. Department of Education College Scorecard, June 2026 release.
Showing all 39 qualifying schools. Select a column heading to re-sort the table.
| 1 | University of Notre Dame Notre Dame, IN Private nonprofit · 4-year | $100,684 | $26,780 | $19,000 | 96% | 8,818 |
| 2 | Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Terre Haute, IN Private nonprofit · 4-year | $97,780 | $42,513 | $25,000 | 80% | 2,309 |
| 3 | Purdue University-Main Campus West Lafayette, IN Public · 4-year | $81,751 | $14,600 | $19,500 | 83% | 44,503 |
| 4 | Indiana University-Bloomington Bloomington, IN Public · 4-year | $74,511 | $16,264 | $19,509 | 81% | 37,806 |
| 5 | Butler University Indianapolis, IN Private nonprofit · 4-year | $73,732 | $36,041 | $26,000 | 80% | 4,317 |
| 6 | Purdue University Northwest Hammond, IN Public · 4-year | $73,337 | $6,079 | $21,229 | 43% | 5,671 |
| 7 | Marian University (IN) Indianapolis, IN Private nonprofit · 4-year | $72,150 | $24,018 | $27,000 | 64% | 2,266 |
| 8 | DePauw University Greencastle, IN Private nonprofit · 4-year | $70,091 | $22,264 | $27,000 | 77% | 1,905 |
| 9 | Saint Mary's College Notre Dame, IN Private nonprofit · 4-year | $69,406 | $25,292 | $27,000 | 73% | 1,458 |
| 10 | Valparaiso University Valparaiso, IN Private nonprofit · 4-year | $69,228 | $18,578 | $26,942 | 69% | 2,083 |
| 11 | Indiana Wesleyan University-Marion Marion, IN Private nonprofit · 4-year | $68,838 | $22,866 | $24,250 | 67% | 1,974 |
| 12 | Wabash College Crawfordsville, IN Private nonprofit · 4-year | $68,626 | $24,336 | $27,000 | 77% | 866 |
| 13 | Trine University Angola, IN Private nonprofit · 4-year | $67,814 | $25,355 | $25,000 | 66% | 2,324 |
| 14 | Indiana University-Indianapolis Indianapolis, IN Public · 4-year | $64,616 | $11,668 | $20,000 | 54% | 13,830 |
| 15 | University of Indianapolis Indianapolis, IN Private nonprofit · 4-year | $63,673 | $21,602 | $26,864 | 56% | 3,005 |
| 16 | University of Saint Francis-Fort Wayne Fort Wayne, IN Private nonprofit · 4-year | $62,831 | $18,196 | $25,976 | 58% | 1,567 |
| 17 | Indiana Institute of Technology Fort Wayne, IN Private nonprofit · 4-year | $61,150 | $23,206 | $26,391 | 38% | 1,441 |
| 18 | University of Evansville Evansville, IN Private nonprofit · 4-year | $59,762 | $18,499 | $24,606 | 68% | 1,539 |
| 19 | Indiana University-Northwest Gary, IN Public · 4-year | $59,535 | $5,130 | $21,710 | 37% | 2,661 |
| 20 | Indiana University-East Richmond, IN Public · 4-year | $58,030 | $8,134 | $18,000 | 42% | 2,589 |
| 21 | Indiana State University Terre Haute, IN Public · 4-year | $57,688 | $10,873 | $24,000 | 42% | 6,188 |
| 22 | Ball State University Muncie, IN Public · 4-year | $57,619 | $14,940 | $23,250 | 63% | 13,988 |
| 23 | Calumet College of Saint Joseph Whiting, IN Private nonprofit · 4-year | $57,530 | $22,451 | $21,534 | 26% | 529 |
| 24 | Purdue University Fort Wayne Fort Wayne, IN Public · 4-year | $56,455 | $13,171 | $21,500 | 34% | 5,484 |
| 25 | Hanover College Hanover, IN Private nonprofit · 4-year | $56,221 | $21,829 | $25,250 | 65% | 1,031 |
| 26 | Goshen College Goshen, IN Private nonprofit · 4-year | $55,539 | $14,493 | $22,974 | 63% | 773 |
| 27 | Indiana University-South Bend South Bend, IN Public · 4-year | $55,103 | $8,653 | $21,355 | 38% | 3,933 |
| 28 | Anderson University (IN) Anderson, IN Private nonprofit · 4-year | $54,833 | $25,021 | $27,000 | 52% | 1,057 |
| 29 | Indiana University-Kokomo Kokomo, IN Public · 4-year | $54,618 | $3,968 | $16,961 | 45% | 2,352 |
| 30 | Indiana University-Southeast New Albany, IN Public · 4-year | $54,129 | $7,888 | $19,684 | 36% | 3,170 |
| 31 | Bethel University (IN) Mishawaka, IN Private nonprofit · 4-year | $53,289 | $18,610 | $25,000 | 55% | 1,008 |
| 32 | Franklin College Franklin, IN Private nonprofit · 4-year | $53,224 | $22,855 | $27,000 | 62% | 900 |
| 33 | Manchester University North Manchester, IN Private nonprofit · 4-year | $52,989 | $18,805 | $26,854 | 45% | 936 |
| 34 | Huntington University Huntington, IN Private nonprofit · 4-year | $52,242 | $19,310 | $25,576 | 66% | 1,082 |
| 35 | Taylor University Upland, IN Private nonprofit · 4-year | $51,779 | $24,865 | $20,500 | 75% | 2,025 |
| 36 | Grace College and Theological Seminary Winona Lake, IN Private nonprofit · 4-year | $49,126 | $19,932 | $19,500 | 69% | 1,464 |
| 37 | Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College Saint Mary of the Woods, IN Private nonprofit · 4-year | $47,647 | $31,872 | $19,512 | 49% | 853 |
| 38 | Holy Cross College Notre Dame, IN Private nonprofit · 4-year | $46,024 | $26,728 | $24,000 | 50% | 639 |
| 39 | Earlham College Richmond, IN Private nonprofit · 4-year | $44,750 | $24,714 | $23,488 | 68% | 670 |
How to compare these colleges
High earnings partly reflect who enrolls and what they study: engineering, nursing and business programs usually pay more than education or the arts, so a school with strong health or technical programs can top the list. Read the earnings next to net price, debt and graduation rate, because earnings count only people who finished, and four years after graduation is early in a career.
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