Anonymous
Post 12/25/2013 13:54     Subject: Colleges that Guarantee Job Placement?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Think alum network! With few exceptions, that means think local. In this area, a degree from Maryland will take you further that a degree from UCLA.


I can't think of any scenario where I would not prefer to attend UCLA over Maryland.


Agreed. They are in the same league.
Anonymous
Post 12/25/2013 13:53     Subject: Colleges that Guarantee Job Placement?
This is the pp referencing Lehigh. Stats are not as strong as when I graduated during height of boom but still in line with what I recall. Don't all schools do this?


http://www4.lehigh.edu/admissions/undergrad/success/placement.aspx
Anonymous
Post 12/25/2013 13:48     Subject: Re:Colleges that Guarantee Job Placement?
Anonymous wrote:Cornell's engineering department requires you to do an internship. When you are done with the internship, you are guaranteed a job there.


But are the internships with guaranteed job placement mostly only available for those at the top of the class? That is how it usually works. The ones who already can get a job get those coveted internships. The rest fend for themselves.
Anonymous
Post 12/25/2013 13:45     Subject: Colleges that Guarantee Job Placement?
Hint , you are doing it wrong. It's the major not the school.
Anonymous
Post 12/25/2013 13:43     Subject: Colleges that Guarantee Job Placement?
Anonymous wrote:My brother graduated from Brown about 5 years ago. Def. not guaranteed job placement. Most of his friends took a little bit of time to be able to secure full time employment in their field.


I have found the Brown alumni in general to be more "artsy / rich kids," not so focused on professions as Cornell, Penn, even Harvard. Look at schools with fantastic undergrad career counseling - that's a key reason to love Lehigh, particularly for finance. Fortune 50, accounting & consulting.
Anonymous
Post 12/25/2013 11:29     Subject: Re:Colleges that Guarantee Job Placement?
Cornell's engineering department requires you to do an internship. When you are done with the internship, you are guaranteed a job there.
Anonymous
Post 12/25/2013 10:26     Subject: Colleges that Guarantee Job Placement?
Anonymous wrote:Think alum network! With few exceptions, that means think local. In this area, a degree from Maryland will take you further that a degree from UCLA.


I can't think of any scenario where I would not prefer to attend UCLA over Maryland.
Anonymous
Post 12/25/2013 07:25     Subject: Colleges that Guarantee Job Placement?
Think alum network! With few exceptions, that means think local. In this area, a degree from Maryland will take you further that a degree from UCLA.
Anonymous
Post 12/22/2013 10:46     Subject: Colleges that Guarantee Job Placement?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I'm seriously thinking DC should become a master plumber. I have so many friends with kids out of college and can't find any meaningful work.


Encourage DC to go into one of more difficult engineering fields especially if DC is not a minority. And spend her summers apprenticing to become a master plumber. Plan A and backup Plan B.


Solid advice!
Yesterday, I went to a car wash in Rockville. It does a booming business, and I thought how I wish I had come up with this idea and location, etc.. I would have absolutely no issues with DC starting a lucrative business like this. There are other ways to make your fortune. I, too, will encourage DC to have a backup plan. Great advice!
Anonymous
Post 12/22/2013 08:57     Subject: Colleges that Guarantee Job Placement?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I'm seriously thinking DC should become a master plumber. I have so many friends with kids out of college and can't find any meaningful work.


Encourage DC to go into one of more difficult engineering fields especially if DC is not a minority. And spend her summers apprenticing to become a master plumber. Plan A and backup Plan B.


Solid advice!
Anonymous
Post 12/20/2013 22:22     Subject: Colleges that Guarantee Job Placement?
Anonymous wrote:I'm seriously thinking DC should become a master plumber. I have so many friends with kids out of college and can't find any meaningful work.


Encourage DC to go into one of more difficult engineering fields especially if DC is not a minority. And spend her summers apprenticing to become a master plumber. Plan A and backup Plan B.
Anonymous
Post 12/20/2013 20:13     Subject: Colleges that Guarantee Job Placement?
I'm seriously thinking DC should become a master plumber. I have so many friends with kids out of college and can't find any meaningful work.
Anonymous
Post 12/20/2013 11:11     Subject: Re:Colleges that Guarantee Job Placement?
OT but saw a news piece about an MIT grad who had worked in finance on Wall Street for years and lost his job during the recession. He was wearing a sign board that said he graduated from MIT and that he needed a job. Think he was finally able to get an interview because he was on the news.
Anonymous
Post 12/20/2013 11:05     Subject: Colleges that Guarantee Job Placement?
Anonymous wrote:Although nothing is cut in stone regardless where you go to college but do graduates from certain colleges (i.e., MIT, Stanford, Princeton) look forward to almost assuredly finding a job?
There has to be more to this than just name recognition. Thousands of college graduates from hundreds of colleges offering basically the same academics.

Just how important is college name recognition?


MIT, for one, does not offer basically the same academics as other colleges. This is why those kids are so readily employed.
Anonymous
Post 12/20/2013 11:03     Subject: Colleges that Guarantee Job Placement?
Anonymous wrote:USMA, USNA, USAFA, USCGA, ROTC....guaranteed job placement.


You forgot the Merchant Marine Academy