Which colleges get you the farthest/ richest?

College Search & Selection
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<p>No matter what the question is, Holy Cross is always the answer. @par72, HC’s ranking is only 34 (dropping?) in the new USNWR report. Why does it warrant inclusion in a list with all top-ranked schools?</p>

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<p>Go to Wharton or Harvard if you want to make bank</p>

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<p>Might add Columbia and UChicago. Holy Cross produces many CEO’s and is usually ranked 25-35 by US News and has outperformed partly as a result of fantastic alumni network. Great school for business and pre-med.</p>

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<p>Actually read an article just yesterday that states that the Ivies aren’t clear winners…in all reality Science and Technology schools have higher salaries on average for obvious reasons…MIT, Cal-Tech…you get the idea.</p>

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<p>It’s not the ivies:</p>

<p><a href=“To Make the Highest Salary Out of College, Don't Go to an Ivy League School”>http://m.mic.com/articles/98734/if-you-want-a-great-starting-salary-here-s-where-to-go-to-college&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>^ The take-away message from the news.mic list is not that some colleges offer better undergraduate educations than the Ivies, or even that some colleges necessarily represent better returns on investment. It’s about the majors.
Technical institutes and service academies have high concentrations of high-return engineering (or other STEM) majors. </p>

<p>As for “alumni networks”, I’d want to know exactly what we mean by that, and how we measure its effects, before concluding that some colleges are out-performing due to better alumni networks. </p>

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<p>tk, some posters are not interested in facts but rather spew the same talking points on every single thread (and have for over a decade). </p>

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<p>DrGoogle, “empty” leadership positions? From the service academies? Shame on you.</p>

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<p>Schools that provide good job opportunities and consistently yield wealthy alumni:</p>

<p>Army, Navy, Air Force, Coast Guard, Citadel (Service academies)
Harvey Mudd, MIT, Cal Tech, Georgia Tech (technical institutes)
Princeton, Harvard, Yale, Penn, and Stanford (top-ranked universities)
Texas A &M, MSU, Appalachian State, etc. (Some state universities)</p>

<p>No particular order.</p>

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<p>Pizzagirl, I have relatives that work in those fields. </p>

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<p>Let’s not start throwing invectives at each other.</p>

<p>DrGoogle, you may have relatives that work “in those fields” (a very odd way to phrase it) but I suspect very few people would agree with you that being an officer in the military is an “empty” leadership position. You are certainly entitled to your opinion. Now let’s stick to the topic raised by the thread.</p>

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<p>bump</p>

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<p>Whether you want to work on Wall Street in IB… or as a production supervisor (or worker) in Birmingham… or a Chi-style (the best) pizza-maker in Chicagoland… or a researcher, moviemaker, teacher, lawyer, etc.:</p>

<p>Life is work.</p>

<p>Maybe one in a million of us gets to go through life without real effort or risk. If you are not among those 7000 or so people – who deal with their own kind of stress – you will have to work.</p>

<p>Schools provide networks, but no hirer wants a lazy person. So work hard at whatever you do, take nothing for granted, and don’t spend like a fool.</p>