<p>Hey everyone, what is your opinion of schools that are most helpful in finding jobs for their students? Aside from the overrated rankings and lists, and ivy leagues of course. From my personal experience from visiting campus and talking with the departments of the schools I've applied to, these schools seemed to be really aggressive in finding opportunities for their students:</p>
<p>San Francisco State
Boston U
UCSD</p>
<p>What is your own opinion of schools with the best opportunities for their students?</p>
<p>Only a small percentage of schools do career surveys:
<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/internships-careers-employment/1121619-university-graduate-career-surveys.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/internships-careers-employment/1121619-university-graduate-career-surveys.html</a></p>
<p>However, even these won’t answer your question even if the schools you are looking at are among those with surveys, since the survey methodology and reporting differs between schools, and successful post-graduation outcome rates may be due to selection effects (i.e. due to how students are selected for admission) as well as treatment effects (i.e. how well students are educated in school and assisted by the career center).</p>
<p>Yup, UCB is right.
I can say one thing, Eventually all graduates gets to work in their lifetime, good, bad or the ugly. :)</p>
<p>Boston University’s Career Office has gotten some very poor (to at best, mixed) reviews for the past couple years from the student body. A lot of the BU kids that I’ve talked to, particularly those in the Management School, have noted that OCR, job postings, and networking opps are far from abundant, and a lot of them had to do independent networking/cold calls to get summer internships and jobs. </p>
<p>[Sucks</a> to BU: Hey Seniors, why find a job when you can get scammed instead? : Mayh3m: the Misadventures of a BU Undergrad](<a href=“http://mayh3m.com/?p=457]Sucks”>http://mayh3m.com/?p=457)</p>
<p>If were talking about another similarly ranked school in the Boston area, I would tip my hat off to Northeastern, which obviously benefits massively with their excellent co-op.</p>
<p>I would also imagine that a lot of the small, specialized engineering schools, particularly: Olin College, Rose-Hulman, Cooper Union, Cal Poly SLO, Harvey Mudd would do an excellent job since these are very well respected schools in engineering circles (an industry that is always growing) and have such small student bodies that the kids probably get a lot of individualized attention when it comes to career searching. But that’s just conjecture.</p>
<p>Cal Poly SLO is not exactly a “small” school, nor does it only have engineering (architecture, business, and agriculture are other prominent majors there).</p>