<p>Found this while I was on Yahoo. Shocking Top 5 if you ask me.</p>
<p>Not that surprising to me.</p>
<p>The important thing to note is that all of these schools have top business (or accounting or finance) programs and top engineering programs (including computer science programs).</p>
<p>Recruiters are looking for these majors–and go to the schools that offer students that took these majors.</p>
<p>It hurts me to see MIT sitting at 23.</p>
<p>Well, I didn’t read the recruiters that were ranking them, but it makes sense–most recruiters aren’t from companies based in NY anymore after so many companies fled the city in the 1970s. And just because some high-profile east coast companies go to the elite schools doesn’t mean most companies do–I noticed previously that GE doesn’t even have a campus recruiting program for Penn (my current school), but does for Ohio State (the school I transferred from).</p>
<p>This is the typical “man bites dog” article spin that is calculated to capture readers but doesn’t actually mean much. The article is based upon the number of recruiters and career fair participants that each school receives. On-campus visits and fairs are basically PR efforts - they’re not how companies actually manage their human resources needs. Obviously, there’s an economy of scale in sending a representative of your company to a school with 40,000 students over a school with 5,000. And the large state Us are the ones turning out the most candidates who are looking for entry-level jobs after their baccalaureate degrees - their counterparts at more selective colleges are going on in greater proportions to graduate and professional schools. The latter are likely to be better positioned for career success ten to twenty years later than the student with a bachelor’s degree who took an entry-level job after learning about a company from an on-campus recruiter. It’s like ranking the financial value of a college degree by the average income of graduates a year or two out of of college. Those who took entry-level jobs will have some income while those who are in med school, law school, and pursuing Ph.D.s will not. The resulting numbers may be accurate, but they’re very misleading when used to calculate long-term career prospects.</p>