Composite Ranking of Computer Science schools

MWolf
Sat, 26 Dec 2020 19:09:52 +0000

UIUC’s data is pretty good, and, even more importantly, it gives the percent of graduates who have responded, meaning that a reader knows how good the data is.

So for engineering, they have a 77% response rate, and about 96% of those are either employed or in grad school. That means that the between 74% and 97% are either employed or in grad school.

The majority of colleges, especially those which trumpet the successes of their graduates, do not actually include the response rate, but post the results of those who responded as though they were results from the entire cohort, or, at very least, a representative sample.