WSJ Rankings 2025

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Top 20 for those interested without subscriptions:
1: Princeton
2: Babson
3: Stanford
4: Yale
5: Claremont McKenna
6: MIT
7: Harvard
8: Berkeley
9: Georgia Tech
10: Davidson
11: Bentley
12: UC Davis
13: Penn
14: Columbia
15: Lehigh
16: San Jose State
17: Notre Dame
18: UC Merced
19: Virginia Tech
20: Harvey Mudd

I kind of like the list - very pre-professional focused and makes sense for the type who read WSJ. Methodology is 70% Student Outcomes, 20% Learning Environment, and 10% Diversity, with each of those broken up with different metrics.

So this is the Special Needs list. Which is very thoughtful of the Wall Street Journal. It's not often you see UC Merced on a top 20 list, along with San Jose State and someplace called Bentley. Babson is a hair salon place, right. Kudos to the WSJ for their public service project.

Princeton, Stanford, Yale, MIT, and Harvard in the top 10 is a Special Needs list?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Top 20 for those interested without subscriptions:
1: Princeton
2: Babson
3: Stanford
4: Yale
5: Claremont McKenna
6: MIT
7: Harvard
8: Berkeley
9: Georgia Tech
10: Davidson
11: Bentley
12: UC Davis
13: Penn
14: Columbia
15: Lehigh
16: San Jose State
17: Notre Dame
18: UC Merced
19: Virginia Tech
20: Harvey Mudd

I kind of like the list - very pre-professional focused and makes sense for the type who read WSJ. Methodology is 70% Student Outcomes, 20% Learning Environment, and 10% Diversity, with each of those broken up with different metrics.

Agree however not a bump for co-ops with NEU and Drexel at 168 and 181.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Top 20 for those interested without subscriptions:
1: Princeton
2: Babson
3: Stanford
4: Yale
5: Claremont McKenna
6: MIT
7: Harvard
8: Berkeley
9: Georgia Tech
10: Davidson
11: Bentley
12: UC Davis
13: Penn
14: Columbia
15: Lehigh
16: San Jose State
17: Notre Dame
18: UC Merced
19: Virginia Tech
20: Harvey Mudd

I kind of like the list - very pre-professional focused and makes sense for the type who read WSJ. Methodology is 70% Student Outcomes, 20% Learning Environment, and 10% Diversity, with each of those broken up with different metrics.

So this is the Special Needs list. Which is very thoughtful of the Wall Street Journal. It's not often you see UC Merced on a top 20 list, along with San Jose State and someplace called Bentley. Babson is a hair salon place, right. Kudos to the WSJ for their public service project.

Princeton, Stanford, Yale, MIT, and Harvard in the top 10 is a Special Needs list?

and literally never heard of Bentley?

[Anonymous]

Can anyone post the top 50 pls?

[Anonymous]

List is downright crazy.

[Anonymous]

I like new lists!

[Anonymous]

Virginia Tech top 20. Hoos incoming.

[Anonymous]

As a midwestern who has never really bought into the prestige of some colleges, I get this list.

Amherst has pretty terrible earnings numbers out of college whereas kids at places like Lehigh (great engineering) or San Jose State (great internship program) jump out of the gate.

Maybe there's some long tail advantage to an Amherst education, but I think that was mostly in the 20th century.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Top 20 for those interested without subscriptions:
1: Princeton
2: Babson
3: Stanford
4: Yale
5: Claremont McKenna
6: MIT
7: Harvard
8: Berkeley
9: Georgia Tech
10: Davidson
11: Bentley
12: UC Davis
13: Penn
14: Columbia
15: Lehigh
16: San Jose State
17: Notre Dame
18: UC Merced
19: Virginia Tech
20: Harvey Mudd

I kind of like the list - very pre-professional focused and makes sense for the type who read WSJ. Methodology is 70% Student Outcomes, 20% Learning Environment, and 10% Diversity, with each of those broken up with different metrics.

The list is highly skewed. San Jose State is a CSU school right in the heart of silicon valley. Many get jobs there with higher than median wages since the area has a hcol. But the salaries they get there are considered lower/middle income for that area.

I went to two CSUs, including SJSU, and eventually worked for a FAANG, but a lot don't end up working for a FAANG. Don't get me wrong.. CSU schools have a great ROI if you choose to stay in CA and get a job. But, it's not worth it if you are from oos.

Plus, there are so many layoffs now in big tech, I'm not sure how easy it is for those SJSU grads to now get a decent paying job right out of college.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Towson Universty at number 40 in the U.S.– wow!

Sorry, the ranking just lost all credibility by ranking Towson at #40.

- a Towson alum

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Towson Universty at number 40 in the U.S.– wow!

“Methodology is 70% Student Outcomes, 20% Learning Environment, and 10% Diversity, with each of those broken up with different metrics.”


Towson likely scored highest on “Diversity” LOL.

[Anonymous]

I've never heard of 2 schools in the Top 10 (Babson, Claremont McKenna).

Guessing I can't afford those anyway.

[Anonymous]

For outcome, I would just go here. The ranking has big discrepancy.

https://collegescorecard.ed.gov/

[Anonymous]

WTF is this garbage LOL

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Maybe the interns are doing the rankings 😂

Maybe rankings are and always have been BS.