Would a Hillsdale graduate have reduced professional opportunities?

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Anonymous wrote:As a lawyer, I wouldn’t hire a Hillsdale grad even if they did well at a top law school. Why hire someone with a background that might turn off some clients?


So a kid that graduated from Harvard Law School but did their undergrad at Hillsdale would get immediately dismissed as a nutcase by you? lol

The elitism displayed by the leftists on these forums is staggering...and revolting



Avoiding nut jobs isn’t “elitism”.


Agree - which is why I’d never hire a Yale or Yale Law School graduate, not to mention Stanford Law, Oberlin, Reed, etc. Hard pass on all of them.
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LOL like you are hiring anyone


Well, certainly not anyone from the above schools. Or you.
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Anonymous wrote:Hillsdale will be treated like ones from Liberty or Notre Dame. At certain employers they won't want to hire from these types of schools. Same for Florida, Alabama, etc.


Equating Hillsdale or Liberty to Notre Dame seems uninformed, if not provocative.

Notre Dame is a Top 25 university that has broad recognition as such, along with one of the largest, most engaged, most influential alumni networks in the U.S. and across the globe.

Hillsdale and Liberty are indoctrination centers that happen to have a campus.


Like Oberlin or Bard or Hampshire or Reed, eh?


They may be too liberal for your tastes but academia recognizes Oberlin and Reed as excellent schools. They both regularly show up on lists of PhD feeder schools. The list also contains many other SLACs. What isn’t a surprise is that Hillsdale is never on these lists.

https://thecollegesolution.com/the-colleges-where-phds-get-their-start/


DP. You may want to sit down for this. USNWR National Liberal Arts College rankings:

Hillsdale #50
Oberlin #58
Reed #63


Classic striver comment. USNWR has been a joke since they changed the criteria. Yale and Harvard Law formally withdrew from reporting in 2022. I’m much more interested in where my kid goes to grad school. And Hillsdale will get them nowhere.


Tell us you're ignorant without actually telling us.

https://www.hillsdale.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/GraduatePlacementReportTRIFOLD_Digital_3-25.pdf


Your link proves my point perfectly - it’s utterly unimpressive. Especially since Hillsdale’s top majors include biology, history and English (majors which regularly lead to PhD programs).

Hillsdale didn’t break the top 100 for PhD feeder schools. Schools that made the list of PhD feeders? Reed, Oberlin, Bard, Hampshire and a school called…Tougaloo College. lol.



DP. It’s utterly bizarre that you care so much about which schools produce the most PhDs. Why? That’s not even a factor for most people when choosing a school and it’s certainly not what we’re discussing here. Who cares?


You must be new to the college forum. Parents sending their kids to SLACS care a lot about outcomes and prestige. That’s kind of the point of a SLAC: law school, med school, PhDs. Politics aside, Hillsdale grads aren’t being hired by good companies because their degree is mid.

Hillsdale’s most popular majors are English, history and bio. Are they just graduating a bunch of public school teachers? Because Hillsdale students aren’t going onto higher ed like a normal SLAC. Don’t like the PhD metric?

Let’s do medical school where schools like Wesleyan, Wellesley and Oberlin are all feeders. https://www.collegetransitions.com/dataverse/top-feeders-medical-school/ Hillsdale is not the other end of the political spectrum of the schools listed. It doesn’t create good outcomes outside of their right wing bubble.


Re: the bolded - gosh, are you sure about that? Hillsdale grads go on to Stanford, Harvard, Cornell, Johns Hopkins, Kings College London, Notre Dame, and more for grad / law school. Economics and Financial Mgt. are two of the top five majors there. It seems you really need to brush up on your research skills.

They are hired at companies such as J.P. Morgan Chase, Amazon, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, General Dynamics, Dept. of Defense, and more.

https://www.hillsdale.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/GraduatePlacementReportTRIFOLD_Digital_3-25.pdf


I read your link. Hillsdale is a glorified teacher’s college and right wing bubble. 17% of graduates become teachers.

Sure a few grads go to a few good schools, but as proven over and over again in fewer numbers than evenno name SLACs.

Here’s the list of employers they are bragging about for their 315 Grads of 2024. I guess Hillsdale’s the place for you if you’ve always dreamed of working at the Cincinnati Classical Academy or The Daily Caller.

Abbott
Amazon
America First Policy
Institute
Cincinnati Classical
Academy
Clifton Larson Allen
Dana-Farber Cancer
Institute
Deloitte
Department of Defense
Epic
Ethics and Public
Policy Center
Florida Department
of Education
General Dynamics
Goldwater Institute
Iowa Judicial Branch
James McCrery Architects
J.P. Morgan Chase & Co.
Niekamp Law Ltd.
Plante Moran
Sentry BioPharma
Services, Inc.
Susan B. Anthony List
The Daily Caller
The Daily Signal
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Anonymous wrote:I think that a person seeking a liberal arts education would do better at Hillsdale than at most top universities or LACs. They've retained the sort of curriculum that other colleges have abandoned.

But if you're wondering whether a Hillsdale degree might be taken against you, just read the responses in this thread. A lot of people are really hostile toward Hillsdale. And even if they're wrong, they still do a lot of hiring.


Please give an example of what Hillsdale has retained in their curriculum that other colleges have not. Are you actually familiar with college curricula?


They actually teach the canon instead of woke stuff.


Please give an actual example. Not just you talking out of your ass.


Not the PP, but are you seriously this inept? Do you not understand google?

An independent, four-year college in south-central Michigan, Hillsdale College offers the rigorous and lively academic experience one expects of a tier-one liberal arts college, and it stands out for its commitment to the enduring principles of the Western tradition. Its core curriculum embodies this commitment through required courses in disciplines such as history, literature, science and politics in order to develop in students the “philosophical habit of mind” essential to sound education. Likewise, majors at Hillsdale are a rigorous and searching extension of these commitments. Ranging from classics or music to chemistry or business, academic fields of concentration build upon the core curriculum, deepening and specifying students’ appreciation for and understanding of the liberal arts. Hillsdale College is dedicated to intellectual inquiry and to learning, and it recognizes essential human dignity. Ordered liberty, personal responsibility, limited government, free enterprise and man’s moral, intellectual and spiritual nature illuminate this dignity and identify the service of the College to its students, the nation, and the Western intellectual and religious tradition. Far-ranging by design and incisive by method, study at Hillsdale College is intellectually demanding. Students work closely with faculty who guide them in their studies, helping students to prepare for a lifetime of accomplishment, leadership, and learning.

https://catalog.hillsdale.edu/welcome-to-hillsdale-college
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Anonymous wrote:Hillsdale will be treated like ones from Liberty or Notre Dame. At certain employers they won't want to hire from these types of schools. Same for Florida, Alabama, etc.


Equating Hillsdale or Liberty to Notre Dame seems uninformed, if not provocative.

Notre Dame is a Top 25 university that has broad recognition as such, along with one of the largest, most engaged, most influential alumni networks in the U.S. and across the globe.

Hillsdale and Liberty are indoctrination centers that happen to have a campus.


Like Oberlin or Bard or Hampshire or Reed, eh?


They may be too liberal for your tastes but academia recognizes Oberlin and Reed as excellent schools. They both regularly show up on lists of PhD feeder schools. The list also contains many other SLACs. What isn’t a surprise is that Hillsdale is never on these lists.

https://thecollegesolution.com/the-colleges-where-phds-get-their-start/


DP. You may want to sit down for this. USNWR National Liberal Arts College rankings:

Hillsdale #50
Oberlin #58
Reed #63


Classic striver comment. USNWR has been a joke since they changed the criteria. Yale and Harvard Law formally withdrew from reporting in 2022. I’m much more interested in where my kid goes to grad school. And Hillsdale will get them nowhere.


Tell us you're ignorant without actually telling us.

https://www.hillsdale.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/GraduatePlacementReportTRIFOLD_Digital_3-25.pdf


Your link proves my point perfectly - it’s utterly unimpressive. Especially since Hillsdale’s top majors include biology, history and English (majors which regularly lead to PhD programs).

Hillsdale didn’t break the top 100 for PhD feeder schools. Schools that made the list of PhD feeders? Reed, Oberlin, Bard, Hampshire and a school called…Tougaloo College. lol.



DP. It’s utterly bizarre that you care so much about which schools produce the most PhDs. Why? That’s not even a factor for most people when choosing a school and it’s certainly not what we’re discussing here. Who cares?


You must be new to the college forum. Parents sending their kids to SLACS care a lot about outcomes and prestige. That’s kind of the point of a SLAC: law school, med school, PhDs. Politics aside, Hillsdale grads aren’t being hired by good companies because their degree is mid.

Hillsdale’s most popular majors are English, history and bio. Are they just graduating a bunch of public school teachers? Because Hillsdale students aren’t going onto higher ed like a normal SLAC. Don’t like the PhD metric?

Let’s do medical school where schools like Wesleyan, Wellesley and Oberlin are all feeders. https://www.collegetransitions.com/dataverse/top-feeders-medical-school/ Hillsdale is not the other end of the political spectrum of the schools listed. It doesn’t create good outcomes outside of their right wing bubble.


Re: the bolded - gosh, are you sure about that? Hillsdale grads go on to Stanford, Harvard, Cornell, Johns Hopkins, Kings College London, Notre Dame, and more for grad / law school. Economics and Financial Mgt. are two of the top five majors there. It seems you really need to brush up on your research skills.

They are hired at companies such as J.P. Morgan Chase, Amazon, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, General Dynamics, Dept. of Defense, and more.

https://www.hillsdale.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/GraduatePlacementReportTRIFOLD_Digital_3-25.pdf

Not trying to be elitist, but almost none of those are PhD programs. It’s really not that impressive to be admitted into a cash cow program.
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Anonymous wrote:Hillsdale will be treated like ones from Liberty or Notre Dame. At certain employers they won't want to hire from these types of schools. Same for Florida, Alabama, etc.


Equating Hillsdale or Liberty to Notre Dame seems uninformed, if not provocative.

Notre Dame is a Top 25 university that has broad recognition as such, along with one of the largest, most engaged, most influential alumni networks in the U.S. and across the globe.

Hillsdale and Liberty are indoctrination centers that happen to have a campus.


Like Oberlin or Bard or Hampshire or Reed, eh?


They may be too liberal for your tastes but academia recognizes Oberlin and Reed as excellent schools. They both regularly show up on lists of PhD feeder schools. The list also contains many other SLACs. What isn’t a surprise is that Hillsdale is never on these lists.

https://thecollegesolution.com/the-colleges-where-phds-get-their-start/


DP. You may want to sit down for this. USNWR National Liberal Arts College rankings:

Hillsdale #50
Oberlin #58
Reed #63


Classic striver comment. USNWR has been a joke since they changed the criteria. Yale and Harvard Law formally withdrew from reporting in 2022. I’m much more interested in where my kid goes to grad school. And Hillsdale will get them nowhere.


Tell us you're ignorant without actually telling us.

https://www.hillsdale.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/GraduatePlacementReportTRIFOLD_Digital_3-25.pdf


Your link proves my point perfectly - it’s utterly unimpressive. Especially since Hillsdale’s top majors include biology, history and English (majors which regularly lead to PhD programs).

Hillsdale didn’t break the top 100 for PhD feeder schools. Schools that made the list of PhD feeders? Reed, Oberlin, Bard, Hampshire and a school called…Tougaloo College. lol.



DP. It’s utterly bizarre that you care so much about which schools produce the most PhDs. Why? That’s not even a factor for most people when choosing a school and it’s certainly not what we’re discussing here. Who cares?


You must be new to the college forum. Parents sending their kids to SLACS care a lot about outcomes and prestige. That’s kind of the point of a SLAC: law school, med school, PhDs. Politics aside, Hillsdale grads aren’t being hired by good companies because their degree is mid.

Hillsdale’s most popular majors are English, history and bio. Are they just graduating a bunch of public school teachers? Because Hillsdale students aren’t going onto higher ed like a normal SLAC. Don’t like the PhD metric?

Let’s do medical school where schools like Wesleyan, Wellesley and Oberlin are all feeders. https://www.collegetransitions.com/dataverse/top-feeders-medical-school/ Hillsdale is not the other end of the political spectrum of the schools listed. It doesn’t create good outcomes outside of their right wing bubble.


Re: the bolded - gosh, are you sure about that? Hillsdale grads go on to Stanford, Harvard, Cornell, Johns Hopkins, Kings College London, Notre Dame, and more for grad / law school. Economics and Financial Mgt. are two of the top five majors there. It seems you really need to brush up on your research skills.

They are hired at companies such as J.P. Morgan Chase, Amazon, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, General Dynamics, Dept. of Defense, and more.

https://www.hillsdale.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/GraduatePlacementReportTRIFOLD_Digital_3-25.pdf


I read your link. Hillsdale is a glorified teacher’s college and right wing bubble. 17% of graduates become teachers.

Sure a few grads go to a few good schools, but as proven over and over again in fewer numbers than evenno name SLACs.

Here’s the list of employers they are bragging about for their 315 Grads of 2024. I guess Hillsdale’s the place for you if you’ve always dreamed of working at the Cincinnati Classical Academy or The Daily Caller.

Abbott
Amazon
America First Policy
Institute
Cincinnati Classical
Academy
Clifton Larson Allen
Dana-Farber Cancer
Institute
Deloitte
Department of Defense
Epic
Ethics and Public
Policy Center
Florida Department
of Education
General Dynamics
Goldwater Institute
Iowa Judicial Branch
James McCrery Architects
J.P. Morgan Chase & Co.
Niekamp Law Ltd.
Plante Moran
Sentry BioPharma
Services, Inc.
Susan B. Anthony List
The Daily Caller
The Daily Signal


I'm wondering why you're so very triggered over this school. I listed some of the employers and said "and more," but I hope you feel better after copying the entire list.

And your remark about some grads becoming teachers actually made me laugh. What you're clearly deriding is part of what I love about this school. I don't have any kids there but would be very happy if I did. Graduating accomplished students who are eager to teach is fantastic. And most of these new teachers go on to work at classical schools - where I deeply wish I had sent my own kids when they were younger. The K-12 Hillsdale curriculum used in many classical schools is exactly what I wish my own had been taught. What a 180 from the public schools they went to.
https://k12.hillsdale.edu/
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Anonymous wrote:Hillsdale will be treated like ones from Liberty or Notre Dame. At certain employers they won't want to hire from these types of schools. Same for Florida, Alabama, etc.


Equating Hillsdale or Liberty to Notre Dame seems uninformed, if not provocative.

Notre Dame is a Top 25 university that has broad recognition as such, along with one of the largest, most engaged, most influential alumni networks in the U.S. and across the globe.

Hillsdale and Liberty are indoctrination centers that happen to have a campus.


Like Oberlin or Bard or Hampshire or Reed, eh?


They may be too liberal for your tastes but academia recognizes Oberlin and Reed as excellent schools. They both regularly show up on lists of PhD feeder schools. The list also contains many other SLACs. What isn’t a surprise is that Hillsdale is never on these lists.

https://thecollegesolution.com/the-colleges-where-phds-get-their-start/


DP. You may want to sit down for this. USNWR National Liberal Arts College rankings:

Hillsdale #50
Oberlin #58
Reed #63


Classic striver comment. USNWR has been a joke since they changed the criteria. Yale and Harvard Law formally withdrew from reporting in 2022. I’m much more interested in where my kid goes to grad school. And Hillsdale will get them nowhere.


Tell us you're ignorant without actually telling us.

https://www.hillsdale.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/GraduatePlacementReportTRIFOLD_Digital_3-25.pdf


Your link proves my point perfectly - it’s utterly unimpressive. Especially since Hillsdale’s top majors include biology, history and English (majors which regularly lead to PhD programs).

Hillsdale didn’t break the top 100 for PhD feeder schools. Schools that made the list of PhD feeders? Reed, Oberlin, Bard, Hampshire and a school called…Tougaloo College. lol.



DP. It’s utterly bizarre that you care so much about which schools produce the most PhDs. Why? That’s not even a factor for most people when choosing a school and it’s certainly not what we’re discussing here. Who cares?


You must be new to the college forum. Parents sending their kids to SLACS care a lot about outcomes and prestige. That’s kind of the point of a SLAC: law school, med school, PhDs. Politics aside, Hillsdale grads aren’t being hired by good companies because their degree is mid.

Hillsdale’s most popular majors are English, history and bio. Are they just graduating a bunch of public school teachers? Because Hillsdale students aren’t going onto higher ed like a normal SLAC. Don’t like the PhD metric?

Let’s do medical school where schools like Wesleyan, Wellesley and Oberlin are all feeders. https://www.collegetransitions.com/dataverse/top-feeders-medical-school/ Hillsdale is not the other end of the political spectrum of the schools listed. It doesn’t create good outcomes outside of their right wing bubble.


Re: the bolded - gosh, are you sure about that? Hillsdale grads go on to Stanford, Harvard, Cornell, Johns Hopkins, Kings College London, Notre Dame, and more for grad / law school. Economics and Financial Mgt. are two of the top five majors there. It seems you really need to brush up on your research skills.

They are hired at companies such as J.P. Morgan Chase, Amazon, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, General Dynamics, Dept. of Defense, and more.

https://www.hillsdale.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/GraduatePlacementReportTRIFOLD_Digital_3-25.pdf

Not trying to be elitist, but almost none of those are PhD programs. It’s really not that impressive to be admitted into a cash cow program.


I'm wondering why this school seems to threaten you to the point where you have to make up things to be outraged about. Your remarks don't even make sense. Maybe take a valium, go to bed, and see if you wake up more pleasant.
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Anonymous wrote:Hillsdale will be treated like ones from Liberty or Notre Dame. At certain employers they won't want to hire from these types of schools. Same for Florida, Alabama, etc.


Equating Hillsdale or Liberty to Notre Dame seems uninformed, if not provocative.

Notre Dame is a Top 25 university that has broad recognition as such, along with one of the largest, most engaged, most influential alumni networks in the U.S. and across the globe.

Hillsdale and Liberty are indoctrination centers that happen to have a campus.


Like Oberlin or Bard or Hampshire or Reed, eh?


They may be too liberal for your tastes but academia recognizes Oberlin and Reed as excellent schools. They both regularly show up on lists of PhD feeder schools. The list also contains many other SLACs. What isn’t a surprise is that Hillsdale is never on these lists.

https://thecollegesolution.com/the-colleges-where-phds-get-their-start/


DP. You may want to sit down for this. USNWR National Liberal Arts College rankings:

Hillsdale #50
Oberlin #58
Reed #63


Classic striver comment. USNWR has been a joke since they changed the criteria. Yale and Harvard Law formally withdrew from reporting in 2022. I’m much more interested in where my kid goes to grad school. And Hillsdale will get them nowhere.


Tell us you're ignorant without actually telling us.

https://www.hillsdale.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/GraduatePlacementReportTRIFOLD_Digital_3-25.pdf


Your link proves my point perfectly - it’s utterly unimpressive. Especially since Hillsdale’s top majors include biology, history and English (majors which regularly lead to PhD programs).

Hillsdale didn’t break the top 100 for PhD feeder schools. Schools that made the list of PhD feeders? Reed, Oberlin, Bard, Hampshire and a school called…Tougaloo College. lol.



DP. It’s utterly bizarre that you care so much about which schools produce the most PhDs. Why? That’s not even a factor for most people when choosing a school and it’s certainly not what we’re discussing here. Who cares?


You must be new to the college forum. Parents sending their kids to SLACS care a lot about outcomes and prestige. That’s kind of the point of a SLAC: law school, med school, PhDs. Politics aside, Hillsdale grads aren’t being hired by good companies because their degree is mid.

Hillsdale’s most popular majors are English, history and bio. Are they just graduating a bunch of public school teachers? Because Hillsdale students aren’t going onto higher ed like a normal SLAC. Don’t like the PhD metric?

Let’s do medical school where schools like Wesleyan, Wellesley and Oberlin are all feeders. https://www.collegetransitions.com/dataverse/top-feeders-medical-school/ Hillsdale is not the other end of the political spectrum of the schools listed. It doesn’t create good outcomes outside of their right wing bubble.


Re: the bolded - gosh, are you sure about that? Hillsdale grads go on to Stanford, Harvard, Cornell, Johns Hopkins, Kings College London, Notre Dame, and more for grad / law school. Economics and Financial Mgt. are two of the top five majors there. It seems you really need to brush up on your research skills.

They are hired at companies such as J.P. Morgan Chase, Amazon, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, General Dynamics, Dept. of Defense, and more.

https://www.hillsdale.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/GraduatePlacementReportTRIFOLD_Digital_3-25.pdf

Not trying to be elitist, but almost none of those are PhD programs. It’s really not that impressive to be admitted into a cash cow program.


I'm wondering why this school seems to threaten you to the point where you have to make up things to be outraged about. Your remarks don't even make sense. Maybe take a valium, go to bed, and see if you wake up more pleasant.


No one is outraged. They are pointing out that Hillsdale just isn’t a good SLAC.

Your own links prove it. And you have no defense but to tell someone to “take a Valium and wake up more pleasant.” That’s super weird.
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Anonymous wrote:Hillsdale will be treated like ones from Liberty or Notre Dame. At certain employers they won't want to hire from these types of schools. Same for Florida, Alabama, etc.


Equating Hillsdale or Liberty to Notre Dame seems uninformed, if not provocative.

Notre Dame is a Top 25 university that has broad recognition as such, along with one of the largest, most engaged, most influential alumni networks in the U.S. and across the globe.

Hillsdale and Liberty are indoctrination centers that happen to have a campus.


Like Oberlin or Bard or Hampshire or Reed, eh?


They may be too liberal for your tastes but academia recognizes Oberlin and Reed as excellent schools. They both regularly show up on lists of PhD feeder schools. The list also contains many other SLACs. What isn’t a surprise is that Hillsdale is never on these lists.

https://thecollegesolution.com/the-colleges-where-phds-get-their-start/


DP. You may want to sit down for this. USNWR National Liberal Arts College rankings:

Hillsdale #50
Oberlin #58
Reed #63


Classic striver comment. USNWR has been a joke since they changed the criteria. Yale and Harvard Law formally withdrew from reporting in 2022. I’m much more interested in where my kid goes to grad school. And Hillsdale will get them nowhere.


Tell us you're ignorant without actually telling us.

https://www.hillsdale.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/GraduatePlacementReportTRIFOLD_Digital_3-25.pdf


Your link proves my point perfectly - it’s utterly unimpressive. Especially since Hillsdale’s top majors include biology, history and English (majors which regularly lead to PhD programs).

Hillsdale didn’t break the top 100 for PhD feeder schools. Schools that made the list of PhD feeders? Reed, Oberlin, Bard, Hampshire and a school called…Tougaloo College. lol.



DP. It’s utterly bizarre that you care so much about which schools produce the most PhDs. Why? That’s not even a factor for most people when choosing a school and it’s certainly not what we’re discussing here. Who cares?


You must be new to the college forum. Parents sending their kids to SLACS care a lot about outcomes and prestige. That’s kind of the point of a SLAC: law school, med school, PhDs. Politics aside, Hillsdale grads aren’t being hired by good companies because their degree is mid.

Hillsdale’s most popular majors are English, history and bio. Are they just graduating a bunch of public school teachers? Because Hillsdale students aren’t going onto higher ed like a normal SLAC. Don’t like the PhD metric?

Let’s do medical school where schools like Wesleyan, Wellesley and Oberlin are all feeders. https://www.collegetransitions.com/dataverse/top-feeders-medical-school/ Hillsdale is not the other end of the political spectrum of the schools listed. It doesn’t create good outcomes outside of their right wing bubble.


Re: the bolded - gosh, are you sure about that? Hillsdale grads go on to Stanford, Harvard, Cornell, Johns Hopkins, Kings College London, Notre Dame, and more for grad / law school. Economics and Financial Mgt. are two of the top five majors there. It seems you really need to brush up on your research skills.

They are hired at companies such as J.P. Morgan Chase, Amazon, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, General Dynamics, Dept. of Defense, and more.

https://www.hillsdale.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/GraduatePlacementReportTRIFOLD_Digital_3-25.pdf

Not trying to be elitist, but almost none of those are PhD programs. It’s really not that impressive to be admitted into a cash cow program.


I'm wondering why this school seems to threaten you to the point where you have to make up things to be outraged about. Your remarks don't even make sense. Maybe take a valium, go to bed, and see if you wake up more pleasant.

It’s in the source: they were all masters programs. You can look at it yourself…
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Anonymous wrote:Hillsdale will be treated like ones from Liberty or Notre Dame. At certain employers they won't want to hire from these types of schools. Same for Florida, Alabama, etc.


Equating Hillsdale or Liberty to Notre Dame seems uninformed, if not provocative.

Notre Dame is a Top 25 university that has broad recognition as such, along with one of the largest, most engaged, most influential alumni networks in the U.S. and across the globe.

Hillsdale and Liberty are indoctrination centers that happen to have a campus.


Like Oberlin or Bard or Hampshire or Reed, eh?


They may be too liberal for your tastes but academia recognizes Oberlin and Reed as excellent schools. They both regularly show up on lists of PhD feeder schools. The list also contains many other SLACs. What isn’t a surprise is that Hillsdale is never on these lists.

https://thecollegesolution.com/the-colleges-where-phds-get-their-start/


DP. You may want to sit down for this. USNWR National Liberal Arts College rankings:

Hillsdale #50
Oberlin #58
Reed #63


Classic striver comment. USNWR has been a joke since they changed the criteria. Yale and Harvard Law formally withdrew from reporting in 2022. I’m much more interested in where my kid goes to grad school. And Hillsdale will get them nowhere.


Tell us you're ignorant without actually telling us.

https://www.hillsdale.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/GraduatePlacementReportTRIFOLD_Digital_3-25.pdf


Your link proves my point perfectly - it’s utterly unimpressive. Especially since Hillsdale’s top majors include biology, history and English (majors which regularly lead to PhD programs).

Hillsdale didn’t break the top 100 for PhD feeder schools. Schools that made the list of PhD feeders? Reed, Oberlin, Bard, Hampshire and a school called…Tougaloo College. lol.



DP. It’s utterly bizarre that you care so much about which schools produce the most PhDs. Why? That’s not even a factor for most people when choosing a school and it’s certainly not what we’re discussing here. Who cares?


You must be new to the college forum. Parents sending their kids to SLACS care a lot about outcomes and prestige. That’s kind of the point of a SLAC: law school, med school, PhDs. Politics aside, Hillsdale grads aren’t being hired by good companies because their degree is mid.

Hillsdale’s most popular majors are English, history and bio. Are they just graduating a bunch of public school teachers? Because Hillsdale students aren’t going onto higher ed like a normal SLAC. Don’t like the PhD metric?

Let’s do medical school where schools like Wesleyan, Wellesley and Oberlin are all feeders. https://www.collegetransitions.com/dataverse/top-feeders-medical-school/ Hillsdale is not the other end of the political spectrum of the schools listed. It doesn’t create good outcomes outside of their right wing bubble.


Re: the bolded - gosh, are you sure about that? Hillsdale grads go on to Stanford, Harvard, Cornell, Johns Hopkins, Kings College London, Notre Dame, and more for grad / law school. Economics and Financial Mgt. are two of the top five majors there. It seems you really need to brush up on your research skills.

They are hired at companies such as J.P. Morgan Chase, Amazon, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, General Dynamics, Dept. of Defense, and more.

https://www.hillsdale.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/GraduatePlacementReportTRIFOLD_Digital_3-25.pdf

Not trying to be elitist, but almost none of those are PhD programs. It’s really not that impressive to be admitted into a cash cow program.


I'm wondering why this school seems to threaten you to the point where you have to make up things to be outraged about. Your remarks don't even make sense. Maybe take a valium, go to bed, and see if you wake up more pleasant.

It’s in the source: they were all masters programs. You can look at it yourself…


Why are you lying?

Masters, Physical Therapy
Baylor University
Doctorate, Law; Chemistry, English
Biola University
Masters, Business Administration
Case Western Reserve
University
Doctorate, Biochemistry
and Cancer Biology

College of William and Mary
Doctorate, Computational Operations
Cornell University
Doctorate, Law and Business
Des Moines University
Doctorate, Biomedical Sciences
Harvard University
Doctorate, Law
Johns Hopkins University
Masters, Artificial Intelligence
Kansas State University
Doctorate, Veterinary Medicine
King’s College London
Masters, Biomedical and Molecular
Sciences Research
Sacred Heart University
Masters, Speech-Language Pathology
Stanford University
Masters, Russian, East European,
and Eurasian Studies
Texas Tech University
Doctorate, Agricultural
and Applied Economics

University College
Dublin
Masters, Theatre Practice
University of Notre Dame
Masters, Theology; Doctorate, Aerospace
and Mechanical Engineering, Philosophy
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Anonymous wrote:Hillsdale will be treated like ones from Liberty or Notre Dame. At certain employers they won't want to hire from these types of schools. Same for Florida, Alabama, etc.


Equating Hillsdale or Liberty to Notre Dame seems uninformed, if not provocative.

Notre Dame is a Top 25 university that has broad recognition as such, along with one of the largest, most engaged, most influential alumni networks in the U.S. and across the globe.

Hillsdale and Liberty are indoctrination centers that happen to have a campus.


Like Oberlin or Bard or Hampshire or Reed, eh?


They may be too liberal for your tastes but academia recognizes Oberlin and Reed as excellent schools. They both regularly show up on lists of PhD feeder schools. The list also contains many other SLACs. What isn’t a surprise is that Hillsdale is never on these lists.

https://thecollegesolution.com/the-colleges-where-phds-get-their-start/


DP. You may want to sit down for this. USNWR National Liberal Arts College rankings:

Hillsdale #50
Oberlin #58
Reed #63


Classic striver comment. USNWR has been a joke since they changed the criteria. Yale and Harvard Law formally withdrew from reporting in 2022. I’m much more interested in where my kid goes to grad school. And Hillsdale will get them nowhere.


Tell us you're ignorant without actually telling us.

https://www.hillsdale.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/GraduatePlacementReportTRIFOLD_Digital_3-25.pdf


Your link proves my point perfectly - it’s utterly unimpressive. Especially since Hillsdale’s top majors include biology, history and English (majors which regularly lead to PhD programs).

Hillsdale didn’t break the top 100 for PhD feeder schools. Schools that made the list of PhD feeders? Reed, Oberlin, Bard, Hampshire and a school called…Tougaloo College. lol.



DP. It’s utterly bizarre that you care so much about which schools produce the most PhDs. Why? That’s not even a factor for most people when choosing a school and it’s certainly not what we’re discussing here. Who cares?


You must be new to the college forum. Parents sending their kids to SLACS care a lot about outcomes and prestige. That’s kind of the point of a SLAC: law school, med school, PhDs. Politics aside, Hillsdale grads aren’t being hired by good companies because their degree is mid.

Hillsdale’s most popular majors are English, history and bio. Are they just graduating a bunch of public school teachers? Because Hillsdale students aren’t going onto higher ed like a normal SLAC. Don’t like the PhD metric?

Let’s do medical school where schools like Wesleyan, Wellesley and Oberlin are all feeders. https://www.collegetransitions.com/dataverse/top-feeders-medical-school/ Hillsdale is not the other end of the political spectrum of the schools listed. It doesn’t create good outcomes outside of their right wing bubble.


Re: the bolded - gosh, are you sure about that? Hillsdale grads go on to Stanford, Harvard, Cornell, Johns Hopkins, Kings College London, Notre Dame, and more for grad / law school. Economics and Financial Mgt. are two of the top five majors there. It seems you really need to brush up on your research skills.

They are hired at companies such as J.P. Morgan Chase, Amazon, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, General Dynamics, Dept. of Defense, and more.

https://www.hillsdale.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/GraduatePlacementReportTRIFOLD_Digital_3-25.pdf

Not trying to be elitist, but almost none of those are PhD programs. It’s really not that impressive to be admitted into a cash cow program.


I'm wondering why this school seems to threaten you to the point where you have to make up things to be outraged about. Your remarks don't even make sense. Maybe take a valium, go to bed, and see if you wake up more pleasant.


No one is outraged. They are pointing out that Hillsdale just isn’t a good SLAC.

Your own links prove it. And you have no defense but to tell someone to “take a Valium and wake up more pleasant.” That’s super weird.


Not weird when you consider that PP is a troll who is responsible for all of the pro-Hillsdale posts, often responding to himself. Thus the misinformation and trollspeak.
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Anonymous wrote:My son is clean cut/strait laced. He’s not particularly into politics. However, he likes the traditional atmosphere at Hillsdale.

I think that it would definitely limit his employment and professional prospects to graduate from this school. Certainly my colleagues from the Bethesda area would trash his resume.

Curious if others agree.


I think it works both ways. I spoke with a CEO of a fortune 500 company who said this school was the BEST school in his opinion - which means he probably doesn't think much of my kids HPY.


We understand that your entire post is fiction but we get what you are trying to say.

I have no reason to make up a post. It's true, but go ahead and believe whatever makes you feel safe. My kids have all gone to ivies so it wasn't a helpful viewpoint as far as I was concerned - but he said what he said.


which fortune 500?

Sure, I'm going to out the person who said it.


You can't because it's BS.
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Anonymous wrote:As a lawyer, I wouldn’t hire a Hillsdale grad even if they did well at a top law school. Why hire someone with a background that might turn off some clients?


So a kid that graduated from Harvard Law School but did their undergrad at Hillsdale would get immediately dismissed as a nutcase by you? lol

The elitism displayed by the leftists on these forums is staggering...and revolting



Avoiding nut jobs isn’t “elitism”.


Agree - which is why I’d never hire a Yale or Yale Law School graduate, not to mention Stanford Law, Oberlin, Reed, etc. Hard pass on all of them.
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Loser-ism.




Realism. Sorry it triggers you.


That's hilarious coming from someone completely out of touch from reality.
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