how accurate is the us.news rankings for engineering schools?

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<p>“Well you can look at the University Graduate Career Surveys . Some, like Berkeley and Cal Poly, list job titles of survey respondents, so you can get some idea of what kinds of jobs they are doing.”</p>

<p><a href=“https://career.berkeley.edu/Major/EECS.stm[/url]”>https://career.berkeley.edu/Major/EECS.stm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>Holy crap.</p>

<p>Only 48 percent of graduates responded. Of that 48 percent, only 55 percent are “employed,” and a whopping 31 percent are pursuing graduate studies. So, only ~75 out of 282 EECS majors from the Class of 2010 had jobs lined up at graduation? Only 26.60 percent?</p>

<p>And, here, I thought engineering was a “legitimate” major that more-or-less guaranteed gainful and meaningful employment!</p>

<p>At least if one were to study engineering at a relatively fourth-rate institution like Harvard College, one would have the safety net of the “H-bomb” to secure careers in finance or banking…</p>