<p>Being one of the top schools in Chicago, does United Airlines recruit heavily from Econ or other majors from UChicago?</p>
<p>I’ve never once seen an airline at one of Uchicago’s career fairs. I think only starting in my junior year did more “real” companies (as opposed to consulting or financial services) even post opportunities on our career website.</p>
<p>The uchicago brand is definitely very strong these days though and I’d be shocked if we had 0 alums working at United. Feel free to look them up in the alumni directory.</p>
<p>I see. Compared to Northwestern, another top Chicago area college, both American and United attend Career Fairs though. So I would suspect the presence would be around the same if not heavier at UChicago?</p>
<p>They recruited industrial engineers at the UIUC Fall 2013 Expo</p>
<p>According to the UChicago Career fair website, United came to the Fall 2013 fair, but not American, which seems odd considering both of them went to the Northwestern Fall 2013 fair.</p>
<p>In general, you will see more industrial employers at elite colleges with strong engineering / applied sciences programs. Places like GE, Exxon, DuPont etc. have honors type programs that suck up students. However, Chicago along with other top colleges that lack these majors is logically pased over. Also, few undergraduates are willing to entertain jobs at these places vs. banking / consulting / corporate research type roles if they want to go directly to the private sector. So a company like United ends up getting subpar applicant yield for an expensive day of recruiting vs. visiting a Big 10 school where relevant majors (accounting, marketing, info tech) abound and the competition from more glamorous employers on a per capita basis is thin. That said, Students regularly get non-stem, general business jobs with corporate giants like Unilever, Oracle, Chevron and so on by their own initiative.</p>