<p>The rankings are very limited- only focusing on 8 professions (two of which are the same thing in different contexts) in the United States, the UK, and Canada.</p>
<p>But they provide a metric that's pretty useful- instead of the general rankings that USNWR and Forbes churn out, you can get more personally relevant information based on where you want to end up.</p>
<p>Methodology/blog post: <a href=“Ranking Universities Based on Career Outcomes | Official LinkedIn Blog”>http://blog.linkedin.com/2014/10/01/ranking-universities-based-on-career-outcomes/</a></p>
<p>TL;DR: LinkedIn looks as the success rate for desirable companies. Again, a very limited metric- but also very useful.</p>
<p>I can see the flaw already - Hofstra beats every school in the country except NYU for Media Professionals? Gee, New York-centric much?</p>
<p>Did not read the methodology. Does simply putting something on your linkedin profile improve the schools rankings? So if a kid says he is in some profession because he does it in his dorm-room is he considered being employed in the industry? If it is tied to companies, do internships count as much as being employed? If so, then obviously the schools that churn out a lot of interns at these places will perform high even though the number employed in the industry may not be significant. </p>
<p>I like the concept but am wary of the execution…</p>
<p>Top 25 For Investment Banking:</p>
<p>1.) Georgetown
2.) UPenn
3.) Yale
4.) Duke
5.) Columbia
6.) Princeton
7.) NYU
8.) Wellesley
9.) Cornell
10.) Dartmouth
11.) Harvard
12.) Amherst
13.) Brown
14.) Boston College
15.) Emory
16.) Notre Dame
17.) UChicago
18.) Middlebury
19.) Rice
20.) Michigan
21.) Vanderbilt
22.) UVA
23.) Berkeley
24.) Northwestern
25.) SMU</p>
<p>Anyone care to post the full 25 for software development? Thanks!</p>
<p>Great stats :)</p>
<p>could you post them for financial professions </p>
<p>Software Developers</p>
<ol>
<li> Carnegie Mellon University</li>
<li> Caltech</li>
<li> Cornell University</li>
<li> Massachusetts Institute of Technology</li>
<li> Princeton University</li>
<li> University of California, Berkeley</li>
<li> University of Washington</li>
<li> Duke University</li>
<li> University of Michigan</li>
<li>Stanford University</li>
<li>University of California, Los Angeles</li>
<li>University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign</li>
<li>The University of Texas at Austin</li>
<li>Brown University</li>
<li>University of California, San Diego</li>
<li>Harvard University</li>
<li>Rice University</li>
<li>University of Pennsylvania</li>
<li>University of Arizona</li>
<li>Harvey Mudd College</li>
<li>The University of Texas at Dallas</li>
<li>San Jose State University</li>
<li>University of Southern California</li>
<li>Washington University in St. Louis</li>
<li>Rochester Institute of Technology</li>
</ol>
<p>Software Developers at Startups</p>
<ol>
<li> Stanford University</li>
<li> Massachusetts Institute of Technology</li>
<li> Brown University</li>
<li> Princeton University</li>
<li> University of California, Berkeley</li>
<li> Carnegie Mellon University</li>
<li> Harvard University</li>
<li> Cornell University</li>
<li> Columbia University in the City of New York</li>
<li>University of Virginia</li>
<li>University of Maryland College Park</li>
<li>University of California, Los Angeles</li>
<li>Rochester Institute of Technology</li>
<li>University of California, San Diego</li>
<li>University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign</li>
</ol>
<p>Finance Professionals</p>
<ol>
<li> University of Pennsylvania</li>
<li> Yale University</li>
<li> Georgetown University</li>
<li> Princeton University</li>
<li> Columbia University in the City of New York</li>
<li> New York University</li>
<li> Duke University</li>
<li> Harvard University</li>
<li> Cornell University</li>
<li>Dartmouth College</li>
<li>University of Notre Dame</li>
<li>Wake Forest University</li>
<li>Villanova University</li>
<li>Boston College</li>
<li>Wellesley College</li>
<li>Amherst College</li>
<li>Brown University</li>
<li>Lehigh University</li>
<li>Rice University</li>
<li>Carnegie Mellon University</li>
<li>Massachusetts Institute of Technology</li>
<li>Rutgers University-New Brunswick</li>
<li>Emory University</li>
<li>University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill</li>
<li>University of Michigan</li>
</ol>
<p>I might have a few quibbles towards the bottom, but the software and IB lists look pretty based in what I see in the real world (keeping in mind that the top 20-25 schools in those fields will all offer opportunities).</p>
<p>What’s the difference between finance professionals vs IB?</p>
<p>I’d like to see a ranking comparing LACs and research universities, without involving research papers and professors, etc.</p>
<p>@Woandering:
Uh, you just saw one. Also look at my tiers (at the top): <a href=“Ivy-equivalents - College Search & Selection - College Confidential Forums”>Ivy-equivalents - College Search & Selection - College Confidential Forums;
<p>@DrGoogle: It’s the difference between “Technology professional” and “Software”. Audit and IB are both finance, but the top companies in those fields are very different, no there’s virtually no crossover between the professions (kind of like how a chip designer and IT consultant are unlikely to take each other’s jobs even though they both work in technology).</p>
<p>Fun with their tool:</p>
<p>The schools with the most CS grads at Google+Apple+Facebook:
<p>Compare with the USNews CS rankings:
<a href=“http://grad-schools.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-graduate-schools/top-science-schools/computer-science-rankings”>http://grad-schools.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-graduate-schools/top-science-schools/computer-science-rankings</a></p>
<p>Very close when considering just American schools. Top 6 are exactly the same.</p>
<p>Also quite close to the “Software Developers” and “Software Developers at Startups” rankings.</p>
<p>I have no idea why or how Georgetown is ranked so highly, but I’ll take it </p>
<p>McDonough is a Street target (all of the first 13 in IB, in fact) and is known to have a strong alumni network.</p>
<p>Another ranking of colleges as votech. </p>
<p>What the heck is votech?</p>
<p>Just another underemployed liberal arts hater.</p>