You all realize this list is just poorly interpreted salary data, right? Look at the schools. It’s skewed towards percentage of students that will be in business/engineering/nursing/cs undergrad programs. That doesn’t automatically make Cal Poly better than bowdoin or Villanova better than U Chicago. It just means the creator of this list is lazy. It’s a social mobility list in so far as going into finance/nursing/engineering etc is a social mobility move. This tells you almost nothing of substance about these schools that isn’t obvious

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Anonymous wrote:lol at this ranking.

Disagree.

The LinkedIn college ranking is fine based on the methodology.

While I have never commented on Bucknell University on this website, I do know dozens of graduates of Bucknell. All seem to be very successful, but all of them also came from successful families who owned their own businesses. (As an aside, not one of the many Bucknell grads that I know is in the field of medicine.)

I'm a Bucknell grad, and five of my friends are physicians, and others are also in various medical fields. The current FDA Commissioner was at Bucknell when I was there.

The only NESCAC to make the list -- Trinity College.

Harvard probably fell because so many there do not have to get jobs. I know three people who attended Harvard. One has no job and lives on family money. Another was a SAHP after being an editor. A third had a low-paid job where I worked, and we did not work at an impressive place.

My guess is any Harvard data is skewed due to generational money making a job optional.

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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.

A college that solely has a degree in business and doesn't enhance its students with a true liberal arts college environment is...a vocational school. Taking a few writing courses doesn't make you a liberal arts college, and I wish it would shed that distinction. It's a trade school.

You can say the same about science and engineering majors. If you major in business, a student takes business courses.

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Anonymous wrote:feel crazy calling Bentley Bucknell and Fairfield hidden gems, but these are great schools - especially if ur kid wants pre professional path. I get it Bucknell likely not going to beat Wesleyan for an ethno-music major, but it will likely provide a better path to a job in finance.

I guess I am struggling with this list and then the strange takeaways people have.

My takeaways are:

- Ivy league is super powerful when it comes to pre-professional. 5 of the top 10 are Ivy and all 8 are in the top 20. It reinforces the prestige snob factor everyone rails against;
- If you can't get accepted to the Ivy league or the other very selective schools in the top 20 (even Babson is only 19%)...then Bentley and Lehigh should be your focus, with UVA high on your target list if in-state (but UVA is also very selective)

If anything, Bentley is the completely undiscovered gem and it has the added advantage of not being in the middle of nowhere like Bucknell.

Is an undiscovered gem different than one that's hidden?

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Sorry to Caltech haha ...

Penn State finally gets the respect it deserves.

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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.

A college that solely has a degree in business and doesn't enhance its students with a true liberal arts college environment is...a vocational school. Taking a few writing courses doesn't make you a liberal arts college, and I wish it would shed that distinction. It's a trade school.

And what is wrong with a trade school? My number one goal with my kids' college education is to them off the my payroll. They can get a masters in medieval literature on their own dime and their business and engineering trade education will make this happen. And I hope that your model T starts this morning!

My number one goal is that my kids become educated people. Different strokes, I guess.

Anonymous wrote:Linkedin has better data than the department of defense - this ranking should become the bible for outcomes - although the elitist ivy or bust DCUM-area private school parents shelling out six figures on college prep / advisors for that holy grail of college admission - the ivy acceptance - will disagree and never give a babaon or bucknell any props for outcomes

Linked in is overrun with bot accounts with entirely fake information.

Anonymous wrote:bentley and lehigh are NOT peers in any universe

Well…they are in the universe of this thread and the LinkedIn ranking (as well as the WSJ rankings).

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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.

A college that solely has a degree in business and doesn't enhance its students with a true liberal arts college environment is...a vocational school. Taking a few writing courses doesn't make you a liberal arts college, and I wish it would shed that distinction. It's a trade school.

And what is wrong with a trade school? My number one goal with my kids' college education is to them off the my payroll. They can get a masters in medieval literature on their own dime and their business and engineering trade education will make this happen. And I hope that your model T starts this morning!

Nothing. Hope your kids get that opportunity. I don't see why you thought I'd disagree at all.

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Anonymous wrote:Doesnt pass the sniff test. UCLA and NYU aren’t ranked? But Babson and University of Fairfield are? Please

Babson is an outstanding business school with very strong placement & Fairfield U. is a solid Jesuit school with a large business program. Babson definitely deserves to be on this list; however, I am less knowledgeable about Fairfield U.

Worst student at DD’s private is at Fairfield. Please. Stupid and provocative ranking.

bentley and lehigh are NOT peers in any universe

Anonymous wrote:feel crazy calling Bentley Bucknell and Fairfield hidden gems, but these are great schools - especially if ur kid wants pre professional path. I get it Bucknell likely not going to beat Wesleyan for an ethno-music major, but it will likely provide a better path to a job in finance.

I guess I am struggling with this list and then the strange takeaways people have.

My takeaways are:

- Ivy league is super powerful when it comes to pre-professional. 5 of the top 10 are Ivy and all 8 are in the top 20. It reinforces the prestige snob factor everyone rails against;
- If you can't get accepted to the Ivy league or the other very selective schools in the top 20 (even Babson is only 19%)...then Bentley and Lehigh should be your focus, with UVA high on your target list if in-state (but UVA is also very selective)

If anything, Bentley is the completely undiscovered gem and it has the added advantage of not being in the middle of nowhere like Bucknell.

feel crazy calling Bentley Bucknell and Fairfield hidden gems, but these are great schools - especially if ur kid wants pre professional path. I get it Bucknell likely not going to beat Wesleyan for an ethno-music major, but it will likely provide a better path to a job in finance.