<p>I agree that peer judgement isn’t the best way to look at a school, but I think USofPlutarchy is saying US News mean the most because they’re popular among high school seniors.</p>
<p>Regardless, most academic rankings are practically flawed or biased in its own way. But let’s be realistic here, don’t any of you find the recruiter score to hold some pretty good value. I mean, the point of going to college is getting a great job right? </p>
<p>Let’s look at that article soadquake981 posted. “Why this doesn’t make sense” is because US News has PA scores ranking Texas so highly in almost every engineering and business field. On the other hand, the corporate recruiters per the WSJ think otherwise. Texas didn’t land anywhere in the Top 25 in ANY field. Hmmmm.</p>
<p>Could there be a flaw in the rankings? One flaw that was pointed out in the article was that they didn’t show the number of industries responding. It actually does explain on the WSJ website. I believe there were like 30 different ones. That’s impressive. Furthermore, the response rate of the survey was actually, imo, really good. About 479 recruiters responded which was a 57% response rate. That’s a better response rate that US News(when they do Graduate rankings that is) or BusinessWeek’s which usually ranges between 25%-30%. And then there’s the number of recruiters that show up on campus. soadquake’s article claims Texas has about 150 of them coming to campus this fall. According to the WSJ, the top 3 had around 400 in a year(note: #2 A&M didn’t report how many they had). I personally find job fairs to be pointless considering all they tell you is to apply online. You’re better off waiting in line for a lottery ticket. But hey, showing up is a sign of effort and it does probably cost thousands of dollars. So I don’t think there was too much wrong with what WSJ was doing. Though it is laughable to see ASU at #5.</p>
<p>Perhaps those concerned(including myself) are looking at it the wrong way. Is there a major problem with Texas grads? Seems like they’re living up to Playboy’s #1 Party School ranking. Do these grads have a high opinion of themselves and read too much into what the US News rankings say? What happened? Why don’t these recruiters think highly of Texas?</p>
<p>Just my 2 cents. Discuss.</p>