<p>If I'm googling for different colleges, how do I find percentages or numbers of students who found jobs their senior year? Or went on to grad school. Possibly what companies they went to work for. </p>
<p>I know another great tool has been looking at student loan default rates</p>
<p><a href="http://qz.com/276801/here-are-the-us-colleges-whose-students-have-the-toughest-time-paying-back-loans/">http://qz.com/276801/here-are-the-us-colleges-whose-students-have-the-toughest-time-paying-back-loans/</a></p>
<p>Any other tips in pulling back the curtain and looking beyond the glossy brochures to find out is that school's education really worth something and the ability or opportunity to get a solid job afterwards. </p>
<p>For example, one of the schools we looked at (top engineering school) had a waiting list of companies trying to get in their job fair and a high percentage of graduates working at these companies. </p>
<p>No single place. The collective wisdom of CC may help if you give names.</p>
<p>LinkdedIn has rankings for different occupations.</p>
<p>Beware that placement percentages may be based on incomplete data.</p>
<p>Many schools have surveys available online of what recent grads have done after college.</p>
<p>That said, I think there is a methodological flaw in the way you intend to use this information. Students are not randomly assigned to colleges so that the observed outcome differences can plausibly be attributed to the college. Colleges select their students, and students have a choice of where to apply. You say you want “to find out is that school’s education really worth something” but I don’t see how you are going to separate out the effect of what the colleges do from the differences in the student body.</p>
<p>I realize there is not one across the board straight answer…look at me looking for shortcuts. Shame on me! I know someone recommended you can check top companies and find our where they get many of their graduates from digging in their stats…that’s one way…also to check…and darned if I can’t remember what the stat is called, but you can check loan repayments for different universities and see percentages of students who have deferred and who defaulted…I did find an article on line that listed universities and colleges with high default rates…that would tend to have me believe that students are riddled with high loans and can’t find a job that will support paying off those loans OR maybe they are moving on to graduate school and don’t have the funds just yet.</p>
<p>I don’t know…let’s say a student a Colorado School of Mines in Mechanical Engineering vs someone who graduates from MIT with the same degree.Or perhaps some school that is ranked dead last for their engineering department and someone there who has a mechanical engineering degree…I often wonder how easy or difficult in certain careers it is to get a job.</p>
<p>For example my small LAC, all women college did a HORRIBLE job with it…so glad I had a commission from the US Army and didn’t have to worry about it but other than the socialites who attended my college whose parents and connections got them jobs, I don’t think my compatriots fared too well.</p>
<p>Here is a collection of university career surveys which are stratified by major (which often has a much stronger effect on post-graduation outcomes than the school does):</p>
<p><a href=“University Graduate Career Surveys - #69 by ucbalumnus - Career Opportunities & Internships - College Confidential Forums”>University Graduate Career Surveys - #69 by ucbalumnus - Career Opportunities & Internships - College Confidential Forums;
<p>Be careful about comparing across different schools, due to differences in survey and reporting methodology.</p>
<p>Are you just looking at ME majors? Or are you looking at how a college does across all majors. Are you saying your women’s college didn’t do well placing ME majors? I don’t understand. I think that your major being in demand will be a large part of having an offer waiting. Although I must say my daughter had some classmates that majored in humanities and placed well in business jobs from name brand Ivy and LACs.</p>
<p>You might like to browse this employment survey, though it is not by college
<a href=“Unemployment For Recent College Graduates By Major | HuffPost College”>https://cew.georgetown.edu/unemployment</a></p>
<p>Yeah my small LAC had mostly little rich daddy’s girls unfortunately…and if I had to do it over I would’ve gotten a degrees other than german and international affairs. But the Army and the ROTC scholarship saved me graduating with virtually no debt from an expensive school and a guaranteed job.</p>