<p>Among hundreds of the world's top CEOs, Northwestern ranked #6 worldwide among the schools where they recruit most heavily. Not too shabby!</p>
<p>MIT #7, U Chicago #10, Duke #13, Princeton #15, Cornell #38, Boston U #51, UMich #52, NYU #66… </p>
<p>Interesting list.</p>
<p>Woo Hoo!!!</p>
<p>I just hope all these business leaders are looking for D when she graduates. ;-D</p>
<p>If it’s ok with you, can one or two of them look for my D when she graduates :-D</p>
<p>Yes, and I am fine with D having lots of smart Wildcat co-workers, so they can even work for the same company!</p>
<p>My son graduates in June from McCormick and was heavily recruited this fall. Besides being recruited, he sent out many resumes. From what he told me, he went on many, many interviews. As of today he has had 3 offers for employment after graduation and accepted the one he felt was best for him. We have friends with kids in other schools with nowhere near the activity that NU has.</p>
<p>@mabrandt - I love hearing stories like your S’s! Thanks for sharing, and best of luck to him!!</p>
<p>@mabrandt, that’s wonderful to hear! Congratulations!</p>
<p>Could you tell us what his major was? I am guessing his gpa and so on were all very good…</p>
<p>Double major. Industrial Engineering and Economics. I am surprised that companies commit to employment 6 months or more in advance, but that seems to be the standard at NU from what I have been told.</p>
<p>i wonder how much this list means…UCLA #11, Princeton #15, Brown #16, UPenn #24?</p>
<p>@shootastar - Among hundreds of business leaders surveyed in 10 countries, this is a ranking of the schools where they most actively recruit. I’m sure it varies somewhat according to degree (e.g. it wasn’t a survey of theatrical casting directors, where Northwestern would probably rank even higher), but in any case it’s interesting and clearly demonstrates NU’s worldwide prestige.</p>
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<p>"Even though business leaders say that the choice of school is not the only criterion for selecting one job candidate over another, a new survey has found patterns among hundreds of leaders who were asked to weigh in on the schools they looked to first when hiring.</p>
<p>Emerging, a French consulting firm, surveyed employers on which schools they tended to rely on, and on what qualities made job candidates most employable.</p>
<p>Carried out in collaboration with Trendence, a German consulting firm, the survey included hundreds of employers from 10 countries.</p>
<p>… The study is meant to give “universities, recruiters and students the most valuable of tools: a road-tested blueprint of where it’s best to study in order to get a job,” Emerging said as it released its findings. "</p>
<p>what they don’t tell you is that you’ll be laid off in 2 years…</p>
<p>… but that’s probably a function of something other than where one matriculated. ;-)</p>
<p>Actually it might help protect you against layoffs to have lots of others from your alma mater at your employer. I have seen senior people at my employer go out of their way to protect some junior people.</p>
<p>I think the survey above may be for graduate school? I agree with mabrandt that on campus recruiting at Northwestern this fall was robust.</p>
<p>Having held high level management positions, I can assure you that at least in companies I’ve worked for the “NU Mafia” could have been a great protective resource during layoffs!</p>
<p>The NY Times article was about choosing an MBA program, but it’s not clear that the research was specifically asking about MBA programs rather than just asking about which universities companies most heavily recruit. In either case, it speaks well of NU’s worldwide prestige, and it’s great to hear another report that on-campus recruiting was strong this fall!</p>
<p>Just saw this related info on other threads and thought it might add to this discussion as well…</p>
<p>Vital Signs; Top IPO Schools
Wall Street Journal
December 1, 2011 (pasted as requires a subscription to view):
By JIM CARLTON
<a href=“Vital Signs: Top IPO Schools - WSJ”>Vital Signs: Top IPO Schools - WSJ;
<p>Stanford University leads the nation in a new measure of success: the U.S. college with the highest number of graduates who are top officers in companies that recently filed for public stock offerings.</p>
<p>Stanford grads accounted for 32 of the 802 executives whose companies filed for IPOs in the first half of 2011, followed by Harvard University with 24, according to a new analysis by research firm Equilar Inc.</p>
<p>Another prominent Bay Area institution, the University of California at Berkeley, came in third with 23 graduates, the Equilar report found.</p>
<p>Equilar officials said the executives attended a total of 379 schools, and speculated that Stanford and Berkeley ranked so high because of their proximity to Silicon Valley, the nation’s capital of start-ups.</p>
<p>“There is definitely a bias towards California,” said Andrew Comstock, an Equilar senior product manager. </p>
<p>… snip</p>
<p>Universities associated with the greatest # of graduates running companies that filed to go public in first half of 2011;</p>
<p>1) Stanford - 32
2) Harvard - 24
3) UC Berkeley - 23
4) Northwestern U - 19
5) UCLA - 18
6) U Penn - 16
7) U of Texas 13
8) Indiana U - 12
9) U Chicago - 12
10) Duke - 11</p>
<p>Go Cats!!</p>