<p>Just a note: Be very skeptical of the employment statistics (such as rankings of schools) that often get thrown around on this site, because they suffer from a few bits of fairly intractable bits of selection bias.</p>
<p>First, on an oddly frequent basis, these statistics are expressed as the percentage of graduates going into a particular field or fields (e.g., management consulting and finance). The implication is that everyone should want to go into those fields, so that the excess is people who “couldn’t get a job” in the field. This is obviously ridiculous, and statistics of this type should be completely ignored, unless you want to go to school with a bunch of people who all want to follow the same path after graduation.</p>
<p>Second, there are much better statistics for job paths where candidates apply to a specific set of large firms – that is, where the application process looks a lot like applying to college does. Again, management consulting and finance are common. For those considering other fields, these statistics don’t prove very useful.</p>
<p>Finally, median and average salary numbers should be ignored altogether, because selection bias renders them completely meaningless. People for whom that is not immediately obvious are called Wharton students.</p>