Which Colleges Give Grads the Best Job Prospects?
- Posted on September 13, 2010 at 5:00pm by
Meredith Jessup
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In today’s jobs market, new college grads can use all the help they can get when trying to crack into the professional arena. While some economists are warning that unemployment numbers may remain high for a while, the Wall Street Journal has interviewed job recruiters from across the country to find out which colleges are best-preparing their grads for the working world:
Recruiters say graduates of top public universities are often among the most prepared and well-rounded academically, and companies have found they fit well into their corporate cultures and over time have the best track record in their firms.
Employers also like schools where they can form partnerships that allow them to work with professors and their students, giving them an inside track when it comes time to make offers for internships and jobs.
Here are WSJ’s top 25 picks (and the schools’ 2011 U.S. News ranking):
- Penn State (#47 in U.S. News)
- Texas A&M (#63)
- Illinois (#47)
- Purdue (#56)
- Arizona State (#143)
- Michigan (#29)
- Georgia Tech (#35)
- Maryland (#56)
- Florida (#53)
- Carnegie Mellon (#23)
- BYU (#75)
- Ohio State (#56)
- Virginia Tech (#69)
- Cornell (#15)
- UC-Berkeley (#22)
- Wisconsin (#45)
- UCLA (#25)
- Texas Tech (#159)
- North Carolina State (#111)
- [Tie 19] Virginia (#25)
- Rutgers (#64)
- Notre Dame (#19)
- MIT (#7)
- USC (#23)
- North Carolina (#30)
- [Tie 25] Washington State (#111)
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GinaK
Posted on September 23, 2010 at 5:56pmMore importantly is the job experience. What sort of experience have they gained since they entered college? That last thing I want is someone that has a piece of paper but actually knows nothing about making a living in the real world. Good work ethic, some experience and an eagerness to hit the ground running- along with the basics from college.
Report Post »kayadey
Posted on September 13, 2010 at 10:14pmThey forgot West Point, USNA, and USAir Force Academy. Not only does West Point and USNA frequently exceed the ivy leagues for quality of education, and exceeds all for difficulty of getting in and the required academic standards, but they also result in 99.9% employment for 5-8 years along with service to country. And yes, they also regularly beat Harvard in all categories of undergraduate competition. :0)).
Report Post »keaton
Posted on September 13, 2010 at 8:12pmMakes you wonder if Obama has harmed the Harvard brand. Having a graduate from your school turn out to be such a cluster—k must be embarrassing
Report Post »proud mom
Posted on September 13, 2010 at 7:37pmWhoop! My son goes to Texas A&M…great school….Gig ‘Em Aggies
Report Post »Andrewk369
Posted on September 13, 2010 at 7:19pmI would like to add that WSU is a liberal school but thats why I’m in the engineering program ;) Not a lot of political bias there.
Report Post »jcatlanta
Posted on September 13, 2010 at 10:50pmTrue enough. I graduated from Texas A&M in Engineering and never saw any liberal Profs, but thats the beauty of Math and Science. It was and I hope still is a VERY conservative campus. You go Andrew!!!
Report Post »Andrewk369
Posted on September 14, 2010 at 2:52amThanks!
Report Post »Andrewk369
Posted on September 13, 2010 at 7:17pmWoo WSU made onto there! That’s where I am right now!
Report Post »tepartyblog.info
Posted on September 13, 2010 at 7:13pmFor most jobs these colleges are worthless. All they do is give the children that complete them an unjustified since of entitlement to a job. Experience and maybe a certification are much more valuable for most jobs. We need to completely devalue these communist training camps.
Report Post »Wdawg
Posted on September 13, 2010 at 9:35pmwhat’s your alma mater? people who graduate from college, usually reflect back and deem it a good experience!
Report Post »RayGone
Posted on September 13, 2010 at 7:05pmNo wonder Beck is a wacko
it might be the booze or the drugs or both:
“In 1994 it was learned that Adolph Hi tler had been posthumously baptized by the Mor mons together with 380,000 of his holocaust victims. Among them were Anne Frank, David Ben-Gurion, the first Prime Minister of Is r ael and Sigmund Freud. (It is unlikely that many of the 380,000 would have opted to move into the Mormon section of heaven once they saw Hitler there.) When news of those baptisms became public, the Je wi.sh community was incensed. Aaron Breitbart, senior researcher at the Simon Wiesenthal Center said “these people were born J. ews, they lived as J.e.ws and many of them died because they were J. ews. They would not have chosen to be baptized Mor mons in life, and there is no reason they would want to be baptized by proxy in death.””
- Glen Beck
Report Post »tepartyblog.info
Posted on September 13, 2010 at 7:34pmYour post is just to incite hate. Go somewhere else. Yes the Mormons do this(Baptize people after death ) but it meaningless to anyone else. Let the Mormons be. They are christian the same as anyone who accepts Christ as their savior. I have found members of my own family Baptized by the Mormons, if you ask them to remove the name they will. Get over it. I am so tired of all forms of bigotry including religious.
Report Post »stonebrash
Posted on September 13, 2010 at 10:33pmHey, did you copy/paste this from another of your posts on a different story. I’ve read it before. How many times did you slip this chestnut into various posts?
Report Post »julie547
Posted on September 13, 2010 at 6:34pmGig ‘em Aggies!!!
Report Post »jcatlanta
Posted on September 13, 2010 at 6:37pmAnother Aggie, I assume????
Goin to my 30th reunion next month.
Report Post »John Foster Collins ‘80’
julie547
Posted on September 13, 2010 at 6:53pmMy son is actually a politcal science major there now. I can’t think of a better place to receive that – other than Beck U of course! TU? I think NOT!
Report Post »hender_sk
Posted on September 13, 2010 at 11:07pmGig ‘em! Class of ‘86!
Report Post »theusaisnotademocracy
Posted on September 14, 2010 at 4:07amGig ‘em! Class of ‘01. mechanical engineering.
Report Post »jcatlanta
Posted on September 13, 2010 at 6:31pmWoop!! Texas A&M is #2. I’ll take that. Its always helped me.
JC
Report Post »RayGone
Posted on September 13, 2010 at 6:18pmLook at the Liberal Bias !!!!!
Where are the esteemed Beck U and Liberty University in the list??????
Liberal communist kenyans yada blah have taken over polls too
Report Post »PaleRyder
Posted on September 13, 2010 at 6:15pmAfter going to Harvard,getting involved with commies and the hate-America first faculty you can become leader of the use-to-be free world. Not even on the list…heads will roll.
Report Post »cacjohn
Posted on September 13, 2010 at 6:05pmI’m curious to know where the for profit schools like University of Phoenix rank?
faktchekr
Posted on September 13, 2010 at 5:42pmWell gee, I just don‘t understand why Harvard and Yale aren’t on the list. I mean, the people running the country are graduates from Harvard…wow…what a wake up call. Gimmie an accountant from the local community college to run the country…the upper crust, Ivy league elitists have made a mess that we may never be able to clean up…
Report Post »Stupid Windmill
Posted on September 13, 2010 at 6:09pmMaybe because its a law school? Just sayin.
Report Post »cacjohn
Posted on September 13, 2010 at 6:18pm@Stupid WM – The Harvard School of Business is a law school? Weird…
Report Post »M31Sailor
Posted on September 13, 2010 at 6:18pmHey Stupid
Yale has many colleges which makes up the whole univ. The law school is one of the colleges.Don’t know about Havard
Either school makes me puke
Sincerely Sailor
Report Post »M31Sailor
Posted on September 13, 2010 at 6:25pmJust sayin
Report Post »Stupid Windmill
Posted on September 13, 2010 at 6:27pmOh yeah right, I forgot anything that is associated with the establishment is vilified here.
Report Post »cacjohn
Posted on September 13, 2010 at 6:27pm@stupid wm – for your review of bach degrees offered at Harvard: http://www.universities.com/edu/Harvard_University_Bachelor_degree.html
Thinking before you speak will take you further in life.
Report Post »faktchekr
Posted on September 13, 2010 at 6:52pmStupid Windmill, you’re quite right…perhaps the answer is to NOT allow lawyers into public office…they must all be accountants…
Report Post »Live Free or Die
Posted on September 13, 2010 at 5:40pmDid we really get rid of “dinglingballbag” or was it courtesy of the management?
Report Post »stonebrash
Posted on September 13, 2010 at 10:28pmMaybe he will pop up again with another name. Keep your eyes open, gang.
Report Post »52whiskey
Posted on September 14, 2010 at 12:50amI certainly hope we have gotten rid of him.
Report Post »GnomeChomsky
Posted on September 13, 2010 at 5:22pmAhhh this list is biased. Surely Liberty U. and Beck U. should be #1 and #2 :)
Report Post »M31Sailor
Posted on September 13, 2010 at 6:08pmHey chompskeeeeeeeeeee4
Throin out those witty one liners again Any news yet about why ak is flush and ca bankrupt? did you know that the width of the Bering sea is less at low tide. Yet to get that 500 word essay on Chompskeeeeeees Theorem.. 53????????Never said it But : 57 states
Report Post »GnomeChomsky
Posted on September 13, 2010 at 6:18pmAgain Sailor you’ve failed! I never said you said 53, I was referring to the mistake you’ve made yet again. Keep up the bad work, you bring much levity to my days.
Report Post »M31Sailor
Posted on September 13, 2010 at 6:39pmHey chompskeeeeeeeeee
Been to Liberty U great school Perfesser,,,, could you explain the meaning of the 53RD premise of Choppskeeeeeees Theory?
Report Post »Sara
Posted on September 13, 2010 at 7:26pmhaha, those offer you the best prospect of being an entrepreneur
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