Editing Swarthmore College (section)

===Graduates===
At Swarthmore, 15% of earners of undergraduate degrees immediately enter graduate or professional school, and, within five years of graduation, 75% of alumni enter these programs. Alumni of the school earn graduate degrees most commonly at institutions that include [[Harvard University]], the [[University of Pennsylvania]], [[Yale University]], [[Princeton University]], [[Brown University]], the [[University of Cambridge]], [[Columbia University]] and the [[University of Chicago]].<ref name=":02">{{cite web|url=https://www.swarthmore.edu/career-services/post-graduation-statistics|title=Post Graduation Statistics|website=www.swarthmore.edu|date=July 8, 2014 |access-date=March 22, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211021031116/https://www.swarthmore.edu/career-services/post-graduation-statistics|archive-date=October 21, 2021|url-status=live}}</ref> At graduate programs, the most common fields for Swarthmore graduates to enter are math & physical sciences, humanities, social sciences, life sciences and engineering.<ref name=":02"/>

[[PayScale]] reports that Swarthmore graduates have an average starting salary of $70,800 and an average mid-career salary of $142,900, making their salaries the 31st highest among all college and university graduates with only a bachelor's. This puts them above larger institutions such as [[Vanderbilt University|Vanderbilt]], [[Brown University|Brown]] and [[Johns Hopkins University|Johns Hopkins]]—ranked 70th, 33rd and 95th, respectively. Swarthmore is also ninth among liberal arts colleges alone.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.payscale.com/college-salary-report/bachelors|title=Highest Salary College Rankings by School|access-date=September 14, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170914202430/https://www.payscale.com/college-salary-report/bachelors|archive-date=September 14, 2017|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.payscale.com/college-salary-report/best-schools-by-type/bachelors/liberal-arts-schools|title=Best Liberal Arts Colleges with Highest Paid Graduates|access-date=September 14, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170914192339/https://www.payscale.com/college-salary-report/best-schools-by-type/bachelors/liberal-arts-schools|archive-date=September 14, 2017|url-status=live}}</ref>