<p>Someone posted about this ranking in another forum, and I think it's interesting. Yale does well. Its rankings accord with certain stereotypes I've seen: Yalies are happier, more intellectual and social than students at almost all of Yale's peer schools, and Yale alumni don't flock to Wall Street in droves.</p>
<p>Two hundred alumni from each of 1500 schools were surveyed about their college experiences. The top 277 schools were ranked. Yale ranks #4, second to Princeton among national universities. Princeton beats Yale only in Job Opportunities, Financial Success and Alumni Giving, but the gap is large enough in those areas to pull Princeton to #1 overall.</p>
<p>Attribute l National Universities rank l Medium Schools rank l Overall</p>
<ol>
<li><p>COLLEGE EXPERIENCE: 1 l 5 l 14
Intellectual Development: 3 l 2 l 17
Social development: 1 l 1 l 9
Spiritual Development: 16 l 22 l 52
Friendship Development: 4 l 8 l 30
Preparation for Career Success: 5 l 5 l 20
Immediate Job Opportunities: 24 l 12 l 36</p></li>
<li><p>OVERALL ASSESSMENT: 2 l 1 l 4
Would personally choose again: 1 l 1 l 1
Would recommend to student: 2 l 1 l 3
Value for money: 16 l 6 l 29</p></li>
<li><p>FINANCIAL SUCCESS: 6 l 7 l 15
(I will not post the breakdown, because I assume that no one cares.)</p></li>
<li><p>OVERALL HAPPINESS: 6 l 6 l 17</p></li>
<li><p>ALUMNI GIVING: 12 l 8 l 58</p></li>
<li><p>GRADUATION RATE: 1 l 1 l 1</p></li>
</ol>
<p>Is there a survey or research about how well the families of the students at each school are connected, and the relation to the students’ summer intern job opportunity and their job opportunity after graduation?</p>
<p>I once read from Yale Daily News that the connection is very important for those who are eager to work at the Wall Street. I would imagine family connection would trump the alumni connection. So it is hard to say how much of job opportunity is due to the school and how much is due to the individual family. </p>
<p>@mcat2 - Wall Street companies (and consulting firms) like to recruit smart kids from a few select colleges. It isn’t that those opportunities are a function off family connections or alumni connections; they’re a function of being a smart kid at one of these select colleges.</p>
<p>While googling this topic, I found this Yale Daily News article, in which the author wrote that about 25% of Yalies would likely work for finance and business in that year.</p>
<p>No matter whether the author has a point or not, I think there is no more opportunity to read an article from this author. This makes this article (and several others by her) particularly special.</p>
<p>Job Opportunities and Financial Success are suspect to begin with, because those categories don’t take into account the wealth and connections that students have before they go to college.</p>