<p>Nice plug for MIT, but I disagree.</p>
<p>Ranking of Fortune 500 CEOs per capita among undergrad alumni of all American colleges and universities, from S. Caminiti’s “Where the CEOs went to College”, Fortune Magazine.</p>
<ol>
<li>Yale (43 total)</li>
<li>Princeton (32 total)</li>
<li>Washington and Lee</li>
<li>Harvard (25 total)</li>
<li>Dartmouth</li>
<li>Northwestern</li>
<li>Amherst
MIT: Not in top ten</li>
</ol>
<p>Let me clarify, by “undergrad degrees” I meant the first job after college.</p>
<p>Rising to be a Fourtune 500 CEO? The correlation is way more complicated. You could have a UMass alum to head GE.</p>
<p>Respectfully, first job crunching Excel spreadsheets in a windowless cube for 100 hours per week is different than career success.</p>
<p>Well, one has to start somewhere. The first job by an MBA from a top program at Goldman Sachs probably fits exactly the same scene.</p>
<p>Anyway, again to the OP, go to Princeton by all means.</p>
<p>MIT2011Dad and posterX both make good points. The problem with the CEO statistic is that there is a time lag. Even if MITDad’s objections are completely unfounded, the statistic is more a measure of how good the business programs of these schools were 20 years ago.</p>