Schools that Feed the Most to Top Employers and Graduate Schools
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Anonymous
| The way Columbia pops up everywhere shows #18 is a joke, not based on reality. |
Anonymous
| C'mon folks. Just pick a ranking that reinforces your preexisting biases and be done with it. |
Anonymous
| My God, so this is what our society does with its brightest. More f*ckin consultants and bankers. Count me out, and my kid. Delighted he will be going somewhere where fewer people do this kind of thing. |
Anonymous
Take it easy. It did also show fields of law, tech, medicine and business in addition to consulting. Plus, if some peers are top notch in entering their careers in these fields, you think others from the schools would be drastically sub par in other fields? Think this is just a window of view into the career paths in terms of the likelihood with the schools. Nothing says one will be on these paths. |
Anonymous
NYU and Columbia both benefit from being in NYC and both have good professional schools. No one ever believed that either one was top tier though. |
Anonymous
The stats speak for themselves. The Columbia outcomes are pretty much what you would expect from an ivy. There's virtually very little difference among all ivy pluses. |
Anonymous
| I’d be fine with my kid doing McKinsey or similar for a few years after school. Great intro to world of business, broad exposure to careers and skills needed in the workplace, and it’s a great way to pay off debt. Those jobs are impossible to get and draw the brightest students, set them up for future success, pay well, and often are the first step to a different path anyway. Plenty go on to graduate school and other fields. But so few people get those jobs that it’s not worth picking a school because of it. I did consulting out of college and ended up going into the nonprofit world. I bring that experience to everything I do and use what I learned in consulting for good. |
Anonymous
This is what I call a case of the "usual suspects". The top 10ish in all the elite fields is very consistently Harvard, Duke, Yale, Stanford, with healthy doses of UPenn Dartmouth and Columbia. Even UChicago does well in the non-medicine and non-tech fields. Was this unexpected? |
Anonymous
The stats speak for themselves. The Columbia outcomes are pretty much what you would expect from an ivy. There's very little difference among ivy pluses. |
Anonymous
I think you're selling these lists short, there were definitely some interesting insights for me. Who knew Claremont McKenna was this good for jobs and graduate school in law and business? Columbia is recognized as elite but who knew it was this good at sending kids to top tech companies, along with Northeastern? Who knew Middlebury was a top Wall Street feeder and business school feeder in the same ballpark as Princeton? Duke is of course exceptional but who knew it would outpace Harvard and Stanford to be the only school that was a top 10-12 feeder to the best destinations in every field? Who knew Yeshiva was a top 10 feeder to the best law schools in line with Stanford? Etc. etc. I'm certainly going to look more into Duke and Columbia now for my son who has a variety of interests, and Claremont McKenna and Middlebury have definitely popped up on my radar if any of my younger ones end up having more interest in business. |
Anonymous
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Now we have "Top Employers"? Sheesh, it will never end with some people.
"Oh, well your, kid may be making bank in a great job in his field with a company he loves in a fabulous location, but it isn't a "Top Employer." |
Anonymous
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Companies for “top feeders to tech” seem a bit more arm wavey than some of the others. At least for the engineering list there’s a claim the companies were most pursued by the applicants (per some survey). For tech it’s just this college counseling site’s take on “reputable” tech companies. Results will look different depending on destinations.
Interesting lists, though. |
Anonymous
+1 Lots of insecurity on this site, especially considering how many very smart people are undoubtedly behind these comments. |
Anonymous
I don't think it's meant to be insecure or to point out which companies are "top employers", but just meant to show what schools will generally have strong employment and grad school outcomes by and large. If someone wants to go into finance and can get an offer from Goldman Sachs, then chances are they have a good shot at another lesser known firm that might also pay well. The point is that these top employers and graduate schools have high hiring and acceptance standards, so it reflects well on schools that keep sending kids there. |
Anonymous
True in the tech world there are many startups that are highly desirable, but let's be honest, the kids at those startups are the same kids at the top of these tech lists anyways |