<p>Lucky 13 Colgate!
Colgate tied #13 with Harvard, Dartmouth and Notre Dame
Check it out:
Colleges</a> with the highest-paid graduates - Princeton University (1) - CNNMoney</p>
<p>The thing I found interesting about this was the percent who found their jobs meaningful. Sigh, are we all about the money?</p>
<p>Colgate actually ranked #1 in a similar list of liberal arts colleges a few years ago. </p>
<p>'m not quite sure it makes much sense to combine large universities like Stanford, science and technology universities like MIT, trade or job training oriented schools like Babson (no offense but it’s mostly a business school), with Williams, Colgate, etc. which are liberal arts colleges. In fact, that there are ANY liberal arts colleges in this list is somewhat impressive. What I mean is most people who choose a LAC over a school like Babson or Stevens Institute (and there is no comparison normally between such schools) are very much NOT doing it for career prep. They’re choosing a Colgate or a Williams College for a broad / deep liberal arts education without any specific job training in mind. </p>
<p>It is a highly strange combination of colleges with Princeton and Harvard along with Babson and West Point (to prepare you for the military) and the others, kind of like comparing U. Nebraska and N.Y. Maritime Academy with Skidmore on “happiest marriages”. </p>
<p>The job satisfaction ratings are disappointing, to say the least, and I wonder why. Is it possible that opening minds through liberal arts leads to disappointment at the drudgery of many jobs? That may be one alternative explanation to the other one which would be that graduates of some of these schools do not find satisfying jobs. A third choice, the one I prefer, is that the type of students who graduate from some schools are all just terribly gloomy people with unbelievably high standards who are not easy to please in whatever job they take. Uh, sure. Hoo hah!</p>
<p>I wonder who they surveyed regarding job satisfaction? I have never received a survey nor heard of any surveys to friends who graduated in the 80s and 90s.</p>
<p>Another apparent surprise among LACs on this list is Lafayette, but when you drill down you understand that many L grads command decent $ because of Lafayette’s engineering school (is Swarthmore the only other top LAC with an actual engineering school (albeit small)?) So, in that regard, Colgate’s performance is even more impressive, lacking as it does the easy path to high salary $ rankings from a significant portion of each class being engineers (ditto for Williams). One can reasonably assume, therefore, that the Colgate/Williams performance comes from business and most probably finance ie IBanking. Still, it also speaks highly of what employers may be looking for in graduates. Bravo Zulu!</p>
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