<p>Firebird74t, that's another anomaly of the rnaking. It's not actually "job placement", rather, it's called "placement success rank", which FT defines as the percentage of students who get a job through the help of the school's career office. Unfortunately, that just serves to punish those schools that have lots of students who never use the career office and obtain jobs through their own means. This is particularly prevalent for schools whose students like to join startup companies or to found their own companies. Obviously if you start your own company, you're not going to use the career office. If you're looking to join a startup company (but not start your own), you will probably also not use the career office, because startups rarely recruit through the career office. In fact, startups rarely recruit at all, because they don't have the HR resources, which means that you have to go out to find them if you want to work for them. They won't come to you. There are also those highly exclusive private equity firms and hedge funds that also won't recruit. Many people who have done their analyst stint in investment banking get their MBA's from Wharton or Harvard for the express purpose of finding a position in PE or hedge funds. Again, you have to go to them. They won't come to you. Hence, any 'help' from the career office is largely irrelevant.</p>