<p>No, it’s just that UChicago doesn’t BS its statistics. The Penn graphs only indicate about 80% of students (those who have indicated career plans), meaning that the other 20% unlisted likely don’t have career plans. Penn has chosen to pretend that these students don’t exist and therefore exclude them from the graph.</p>
<p>Penn also puts in additional categories to pretend like there’s student employment when there’s not, such as “part-time employment,” “additional coursework,” “short-term employment,” “self-employed,” etc. With Chicago’s data, there’s just full-time work, graduate school, or other.</p>
<p>Recently released data in other threads suggest that Chicago has 88% of its grads in full-time employment or graduate school within X months of graduation, which is 3rd in the country tied with Stanford and well ahead of Penn.</p>
<p>I might also note that this is Chicago’s data as of pre-graduation, meaning June 2011. Penn’s data is up to December 2011.</p>
<p>After a quick analysis, it actually looks like Chicago is significantly outperforming Penn. I wish Chicago would have waited to put out this data, though, until it actually updates student employment statistics to post-graduation levels like Penn has done. At first sight (and with a non-mathematical eye), the two data sets make it APPEAR that Penn is outperforming Chicago, even if the opposite is true. Chicago needs to be smarter about these kinds of things.</p>