<p>When looking into the graduate outcome for college, I personally feel the most important data from those survey is the percentage of placement. Then the position of these placement and the employers. I don’t pay much attention in the median salary. For any certain position from the similar size/industry of employer, the salary difference from college A and college B is mainly due to the living cost of different area.</p>
<p>“Lower ranked schools are a bunch of slackers who think hard work is actually hard when its a joke. Not to mention they are dumb as hell. Take it from me I’ve transferred 3 times from progressively better schools.”</p>
<p>I tend to agree. I’ve transferred from a prestigious state school to a not-prestigious one(but still producing a lot of Big Four hires) and the caliber of students is much lower in terms of intellect and scholastic ability. Were I a recruiter for the Big Four or another job that demands a good traditional work ethic and not too much intelligence I’d give my peers a little extra consideration because most of them also have jobs. Plus some prestige schools produce characters that are way too impressed by the color of their hats and think others should care about their football teams and whatnot. </p>
<p>If I were the gatekeeper for the Big Four collecting auditors with the intent of burning them out and showing 90% of them the door in 5 years I’d be more inclined to go with Podunk U than I would be if I was the gatekeeper for Harvard Business School.</p>
<p>Ok. My situation has changed. It’s now 60-65k in debt after Michigan, or no debt and 10-15k in my pocket coming out of Texas A&M. Does this change things up a little bit? Obviously A&M is much better than Alabama, but I guess it’s still not a top 10 bschool either.</p>
<p>A&M, huge network.</p>
<p>A&M is pretty good, but I’d still go with Michigan.</p>
<p>are boston college, villanova, and william and mary considered “prestigious”?</p>
<p>Not compared to UMich.</p>
<p>Nova, Bc are very prestigious i know off. </p>
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<p>That site helps me looking at schools, tells teaching grade and etc.</p>
<p>Due to athletics, BC and Villanova tend to be household names, however, W&M is an excellent school. It is also on Businessweek’s best undergrad B programs.</p>