College's reputation from employer's point of view

[Sam_Lee]

<p>barrons,</p>

<p>What I said aren’t all that different from what you wrote. The main difference is I take this survey with a huge grain of salt and offer the caveats while you want to promote it much more than I do.

Now if the employers were all NYC Ibanks you would get another result.

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But if you survey only the top investment banks, think tanks, management consulting firms, or companies like Google, you’ll get very different results.

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Now if they do not recruit at a place it won’t be ranked

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I forgot to point out most privates don’t have things like accounting, nursing, insurance, personal finance, textile, retailing, “exercise & wellness”…etc. Accounting and nursing recruiters are not going to mention Harvard even once [and therefore Harvard won’t be ranked].

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<p>According to the article:

Ms. Goldin said, at Harvard, more than 55% of graduates went on to a doctorate degree, according to a recent survey, so they tend to stay in a first job for a short period of time—often a year or less. It’s an observation recruiters in the Journal’s study also made.

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it’s more difficult to retain grads from elite schools cos they get bored faster

I doubt pursuing PhDs was the reason they change jobs so quickly and that 55% is way higher than PhD production data we’d seen elsewhere (LACs are usually the top producers with rates of 15-20% for the top ones). As I mentioned, I suspect that they got bored faster. But regardless of the reason, at least some, if not many, of them have a harder time to retain Harvard grads.</p>