The Wall Street Journal today announces the results of a survey of recruiting executives “to identify the majors and schools that best prepare students to land jobs that are satisfying, well-paid, and have growth potential.”
The list is surprising:
1 Penn State
2 Texas A & M
3 University of Illinois
4 Purdue
5 Arizona State
6 Michigan
7 Georgia Tech
8 Maryland
9 Florida
10 Carnegie Mellon
11 Brigham Young
12 Ohio State
13 Virginia Tech
14 Cornell
15 Berkeley
16 Wisconsin
17 UCLA
18 Texas Tech
19 (tie) NC State and Virginia
2 Responses to New Rankings, by Hiring
goxewu - September 13, 2010 at 9:51 am
Why is it surprising? Big state schools with a plethora of occupation-specific majors (as opposed to SLACs and Ivies). And three of the twenty have “Tech” as part of their names. That ought to tell us something.
_perplexed_ - September 13, 2010 at 12:53 pm
Is there some reason that the WSJ thinks recruiting executives know what counts as a “satisfying” job?