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Alexandre:
The LSA career center is not that bad, it is just as aggressive or as effective as the career centers at Ross or at the CoE. </p>
<p>~90% of Ross students are employed within three months of their graduation. Most of those work for sexy tech companies (Google, Cisco, Intel, Sun, Microsoft etc…), Fortune 500 companies, bulge bracket IBanks or private equity firms, a management consulting firm or one of the Big 4 (PwC, D&T, E&Y etc…). The average starting salary for Ross students is $65,000, not including signing bonuses and additional guaranteed compensation. </p>
<p>Placement figures for the CoE are similar. Again, ~90% placement rate into major companies within 3 months graduation, average basic starting salary in the $65,000. </p>
<p>Compared to that, LSA is obviously not going to compete favorably. That is to be expected mind you. Colleges of Arts and Sciences are traditionally designed to educate undergrads in classical, traditional disciplines with the hope that many of those will go on to earn graduate degrees in those discplines, or to medical or law school. Colleges of Arts and Sciences will typical have stronger career offices at universities with no undergraduate business programs and weak/non-existant engineering programs (like Brown, Chicago, Dartmouth, Duke, Vanderbilt to name a few) than at schools with strong Business and/or Engineering programs (Cal, Cornell, MIT, Michigan, NYU and Penn). Even then, CAS recruitment activity will generally not match recruitment activity and placement rates of major undergraduate business and engineering programs with the exception of Harvard.
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<p>Do they have any employment data for LSA students in career center for economics students ? I always thought economics was a very employable major and could place better then Ross also according to payscale economics undergrad degree is up there with engineering degrees as highest paid.</p>