<p>USC and UCLA are very strong in Southern California</p>
<p>very strong</p>
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<p>As well, some alumni clubs have more of a social mission, others more of a networking mission, and yet others more of a philanthropic mission.</p>
<p>Networking is also highly individual – that is, there are some people who will jump at any chance to help someone who went to the same U, even if there is no other personal connection, and those who won’t. That’s not a reflection of the school, that’s a reflection of that individual.</p>
<p>Personally I think the networking that you do while you are a student with other students is more important than the networking that comes from simply being an alumn of X school. Maybe not immediately, but in the long term.</p>
<p>It would be interesting to know if any particular college has a particularly strong alumni movement on LinkedIn. That, to me, might be some attempt to measure it. What % of LI members bother to join an alumni network? How active is the network in terms of postings for jobs, etc.?</p>
<p>Wellesley <10 char></p>
<p>Haas should be in the list.</p>
<p>Frankly I think that the level of networking is so dependent upon the individual’s ability to schmooze that it’s difficult to say a particular college has a better networking system than others. Don’t forget, plenty of people with unfancy degrees are able to network into bigger and better things just on sheer personality and winning ways.</p>
<p>Here is another vote for Univ. of Southern California. The “Trojan Family” is worldwide. There are now 19 alumni groups in Asia. One in China contributed $160,000 to the new student center which will open in August. The Asian Pacific Alumni group in California contributed $400,000 to SC in 2009 as well as sponsoring 27 scholarships.</p>
<p>The Atlanta Alumni Club, far from the USC campus, contributed five scholarships last year, offers internships for SC students and hosts a SCendoff party for new students before they leave for Los Angeles.</p>
<p>In 2009 USC was 7th in fundraising according to the list by the Council for Aid to Education.</p>
<p>I don’t networking can be based on a college as a whole. Networking is based on departments rather than college. A top networking school in Engineering may have few networking for Business, for an example.</p>
<p>agreed, like Purdue for example, great engineering connections but not a top networking school overall.</p>
<p>University of Phoenix has to be good. It puts the rest of these schools’ pathetic alumni networks to shame with its size!</p>
<p>I second Georgia Girl’s comments. USC and the “Trojan Family” are the best I have ever seen.</p>
<p>Hm. I think I have jumbled together a network’s strength and …strength per density?. I was not talking about loyalty–I’m sure the Texas A&M grads where I live (not Texas) are very supportive of each other. However, I don’t think that there are enough of them about that I would say their alumni network is strong in comparison to State Flagship U, which (while its network is less cohesive) has lots and lots and lots more people around here (a small but fairly affluent urban center). Would that be correct?</p>
<p>In California, USC has an extremely strong alumni network. Alumni love to hire students who have graduated from USC as well as provide them with internships. Univ. of Michigan has one of the biggest networks in the country and it carries throughout the country. It is strong on both coasts.</p>
<p>Duke, Notre Dame, Princeton, Dartmouth, Holy Cross, Colgate and USC</p>
<p>Dartmouth, USC</p>
<p>Lirazel- It’s not so much about how MANY there are (although numbers help) but how “tight” the alums are and how they feel about their school. The most rabid alums are the ones usually most willing to help another grad in some way.</p>
<p>Holy Cross, Dartmouth, Princeton have strong annual alumni programs that foster high alumni giving rates.</p>