Linkedin posts top college ranking - justice for Babson and Bucknell LOL!

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Anonymous wrote:Does this capture doctors in any way as an example?

I assume even they have LinkedIn profiles but not sure how they might be viewed in the context of this report.

I will say some of the oddest qualitative aspects are what they say grads from certain schools are strong at. For UVA it listed three things with 3D modeling being one of the three…does that make any sense?

The ranking only takes into account 2019-24 grads and specifically looked at careers in tech/business so it is not a good ranking for anyone targeting phd/research-based tech careers, MD, etc.

All the docs are still in med school or residency and most docs once in a real job post residency do not have linked in. It is not very useful for getting hired as a physician.

The pipeline doesn’t have a med school offramp.

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Anonymous wrote:UVA ranked 12th, higher than half the Ivy League and far and away the top public.

Notre Dame #8

Please don't post anything positive about UVA. This board will not tolerate that!

Well...not to quibble...but 5 of the Ivy schools ranked in the top 10 (Princeton, Penn, Harvard, Cornell and Dartmouth)...and based on my rudimentary math skills I still think 5/8 > 50%. So, UVA is higher than 37.5% of the Ivy league schools.

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Anonymous wrote:The ranking is built on exclusive LinkedIn data looking at career outcomes of alumni, such as job placement rates and advancement into senior-level positions, or how many alumni held an internship during their degree or started their own company post-grad.

Looks like it is a ranking of where people graduated from and where they ended up?

So nothing about the quality of education or facilities offered. A different pov.

And explains:

Babson: Business school that produces titles like: Director of ..., VP of ...
Caltech: tech school that produces more titles like: Senior or Principal Engineer than: Director/VP of ....

maybe for business schools this would mean something?

And people who go into academics and research count how?

Doesn't - this ranking is meant for people that want to climb the corporate ladder. Nothing else. You want research even USNWR doesn't do it.

For those who want research look at QS and filter for USA. Undergrad research possibilities tend to be highest at the top QS ranked schools. Many of the top ones also are tops in private/industry funding thus will have a nice buffer during the government related cuts. Top schools are digging into their private/corporate funding networks, some of which have had undergrad-sponsoring funding in place for years.

Just because an institution does a lot of research doesn't mean it's easy to participate as an undergrad.

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Pretty interesting list. Here's the Top 30. If you asked for list of schools that would generate upwardly mobile careers, this list looks reasonable. A few surprises (Bentley, Bucknell, Fairfield) and a few big omissions (Michigan, UCLA, CalTech). Yale and Columbia seem oddly low.

1. Princeton
2. Duke
3. Penn
4. MIT
5. Cornell
6. Harvard
7. Babson
8. Notre Dame
9. Dartmouth
10. Stanford
11. Northwestern
12. UVA
13. Vanderbilt
14. Brown
15. Bentley
16. Tufts
17. Lehigh
18. Columbia
19. Yale
20. Carnegie Mellon
21. Bucknell
22. Boston College
23. Villanova
24. Illinois-Champaign
25. Wake Forest
26. UChicago
27. USC
28. Fairfield
29. Washington&Lee
30. UC Berkeley

Here's the Methodology:

Job placement tracks the percentage of alumni from recent graduate cohorts (2019-2024) that start a full-time position or a graduate school program within the same year of graduating. This assessment is based on LinkedIn hiring data. Internships and recruiter demand tracks the percentage of alumni from recent cohorts who completed an undergraduate internship; and labor market demand for recent cohorts, based on InMail outreach data. Career success tracks the percentage of alumni with post-graduate entrepreneurship or C-suite experience. Network strength tracks how connected alumni of the same school are to each other, as well as how connected alumni from recent cohorts are to all past alumni and current students. Knowledge breadth tracks unique fields of study and unique skills gained among recent cohorts during their degree.

Each of the five pillars is weighed equally.

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I would have expected Berkeley to be Top 10.

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No University of Maryland?

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Anonymous wrote:Pretty interesting list. Here's the Top 30. If you asked for list of schools that would generate upwardly mobile careers, this list looks reasonable. A few surprises (Bentley, Bucknell, Fairfield) and a few big omissions (Michigan, UCLA, CalTech). Yale and Columbia seem oddly low.

1. Princeton
2. Duke
3. Penn
4. MIT
5. Cornell
6. Harvard
7. Babson
8. Notre Dame
9. Dartmouth
10. Stanford
11. Northwestern
12. UVA
13. Vanderbilt
14. Brown
15. Bentley
16. Tufts
17. Lehigh
18. Columbia
19. Yale
20. Carnegie Mellon
21. Bucknell
22. Boston College
23. Villanova
24. Illinois-Champaign
25. Wake Forest
26. UChicago
27. USC
28. Fairfield
29. Washington&Lee
30. UC Berkeley

Here's the Methodology:

Job placement tracks the percentage of alumni from recent graduate cohorts (2019-2024) that start a full-time position or a graduate school program within the same year of graduating. This assessment is based on LinkedIn hiring data. Internships and recruiter demand tracks the percentage of alumni from recent cohorts who completed an undergraduate internship; and labor market demand for recent cohorts, based on InMail outreach data. Career success tracks the percentage of alumni with post-graduate entrepreneurship or C-suite experience. Network strength tracks how connected alumni of the same school are to each other, as well as how connected alumni from recent cohorts are to all past alumni and current students. Knowledge breadth tracks unique fields of study and unique skills gained among recent cohorts during their degree.

Each of the five pillars is weighed equally.

LinkedIn is not the place I would look for half of these things.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Pretty interesting list. Here's the Top 30. If you asked for list of schools that would generate upwardly mobile careers, this list looks reasonable. A few surprises (Bentley, Bucknell, Fairfield) and a few big omissions (Michigan, UCLA, CalTech). Yale and Columbia seem oddly low.

1. Princeton
2. Duke
3. Penn
4. MIT
5. Cornell
6. Harvard
7. Babson
8. Notre Dame
9. Dartmouth
10. Stanford
11. Northwestern
12. UVA
13. Vanderbilt
14. Brown
15. Bentley
16. Tufts
17. Lehigh
18. Columbia
19. Yale
20. Carnegie Mellon
21. Bucknell
22. Boston College
23. Villanova
24. Illinois-Champaign
25. Wake Forest
26. UChicago
27. USC
28. Fairfield
29. Washington&Lee
30. UC Berkeley

Here's the Methodology:

Job placement tracks the percentage of alumni from recent graduate cohorts (2019-2024) that start a full-time position or a graduate school program within the same year of graduating. This assessment is based on LinkedIn hiring data. Internships and recruiter demand tracks the percentage of alumni from recent cohorts who completed an undergraduate internship; and labor market demand for recent cohorts, based on InMail outreach data. Career success tracks the percentage of alumni with post-graduate entrepreneurship or C-suite experience. Network strength tracks how connected alumni of the same school are to each other, as well as how connected alumni from recent cohorts are to all past alumni and current students. Knowledge breadth tracks unique fields of study and unique skills gained among recent cohorts during their degree.

Each of the five pillars is weighed equally.

LinkedIn is not the place I would look for half of these things.

So many people I know are successful professionals with completely empty LinkedIn accounts. Some professions, especially the arts and academia, don't ever really use LinkedIn, and it's expected you have your own website.

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Anonymous wrote:Pretty interesting list. Here's the Top 30. If you asked for list of schools that would generate upwardly mobile careers, this list looks reasonable. A few surprises (Bentley, Bucknell, Fairfield) and a few big omissions (Michigan, UCLA, CalTech). Yale and Columbia seem oddly low.

1. Princeton
2. Duke
3. Penn
4. MIT
5. Cornell
6. Harvard
7. Babson
8. Notre Dame
9. Dartmouth
10. Stanford
11. Northwestern
12. UVA
13. Vanderbilt
14. Brown
15. Bentley
16. Tufts
17. Lehigh
18. Columbia
19. Yale
20. Carnegie Mellon
21. Bucknell
22. Boston College
23. Villanova
24. Illinois-Champaign
25. Wake Forest
26. UChicago
27. USC
28. Fairfield
29. Washington&Lee
30. UC Berkeley

Here's the Methodology:

Job placement tracks the percentage of alumni from recent graduate cohorts (2019-2024) that start a full-time position or a graduate school program within the same year of graduating. This assessment is based on LinkedIn hiring data. Internships and recruiter demand tracks the percentage of alumni from recent cohorts who completed an undergraduate internship; and labor market demand for recent cohorts, based on InMail outreach data. Career success tracks the percentage of alumni with post-graduate entrepreneurship or C-suite experience. Network strength tracks how connected alumni of the same school are to each other, as well as how connected alumni from recent cohorts are to all past alumni and current students. Knowledge breadth tracks unique fields of study and unique skills gained among recent cohorts during their degree.

Each of the five pillars is weighed equally.

This honestly checks out. Schools like Babson, Bentley, and Lehigh are very pre-professional, even if they aren't sending kids in droves to Wall Street

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Anonymous wrote:Babson is practically a vocational school. But it works for a certain kind of kid, so great. Bucknell is a traditional LAC with pretty solid outcomes, but certainly not top outcomes by any means.

Babson is hardly a "vocational school." You mustn't be from the Boston area.

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Babson is a great business program!

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DH went to Babson and had a wonderful experience.

[Anonymous]

Where is the Naval Academy? Navy, MIT and Princeton grads have the highest private sector salaries 15 years after graduation.

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Anonymous wrote:Where is the Naval Academy? Navy, MIT and Princeton grads have the highest private sector salaries 15 years after graduation.

None of the military academies are likely represented because it’s just recent grads. I assume most recent academy grads are still serving out their commissions.

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Anonymous wrote:Bucknell takes some much crap on this site it’s a shame - must be some bitter parents who’s kid didn’t get in, but it’s sad in many respects. Don’t see the majority of students or parents touting it as something other than what it is - a top LAC with a solid business majored/department that places well above its small stature. Wall street is full of Bucknell grads, and I’m saying that as a Cornell grad from the 80s. And the ones I know are more loyal than the small nescacs blah blah.

Thank you for posting this. It needs to be said.