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First of all, the Ivy league is not the place to see characteristic engineering education - most people attending Penn for engineering do not have a career as an engineer in mind.</p>
<p>Second, I assume you got 17% by adding “engineering/consulting” to “technology”, ommitting “manufacturing” (11%), “energy/natural resources” (5%), “communications” (3%), etc. Yes, 51% of the 55% empluyed full-time are in either consulting or financial services, but while 28% of the class is the significant, it is not necessarily the average, especially when you consider that this is the same percentage as those involved in further studies (either grad school or “post-bac”).</p>
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Do you even realize that the report you posted was for ALL of MIT, not just the engineering school, and that MIT includes one of the top business schools in the world? Big surprise that they would be heavily recruited by a consulting firm. 8 of the top 1o companies hiring at MIT are tech companies.</p>
<p>Did you also notice that only 5% of undergrads got their jobs through advertised listings like Monster, et al? I ask because you keep bringing that up as a major hiring tool.</p>