<p>Colgate actually ranked #1 in a similar list of liberal arts colleges a few years ago. </p>
<p>'m not quite sure it makes much sense to combine large universities like Stanford, science and technology universities like MIT, trade or job training oriented schools like Babson (no offense but it’s mostly a business school), with Williams, Colgate, etc. which are liberal arts colleges. In fact, that there are ANY liberal arts colleges in this list is somewhat impressive. What I mean is most people who choose a LAC over a school like Babson or Stevens Institute (and there is no comparison normally between such schools) are very much NOT doing it for career prep. They’re choosing a Colgate or a Williams College for a broad / deep liberal arts education without any specific job training in mind. </p>
<p>It is a highly strange combination of colleges with Princeton and Harvard along with Babson and West Point (to prepare you for the military) and the others, kind of like comparing U. Nebraska and N.Y. Maritime Academy with Skidmore on “happiest marriages”. </p>
<p>The job satisfaction ratings are disappointing, to say the least, and I wonder why. Is it possible that opening minds through liberal arts leads to disappointment at the drudgery of many jobs? That may be one alternative explanation to the other one which would be that graduates of some of these schools do not find satisfying jobs. A third choice, the one I prefer, is that the type of students who graduate from some schools are all just terribly gloomy people with unbelievably high standards who are not easy to please in whatever job they take. Uh, sure. Hoo hah!</p>