Jeff Selingo’s 'Dream Schools'

[Bill_Marsh]

@DadTwoGirls

At the risk of stating the obvious, or stating what some of us might be thinking: I like this list. I like the list because there is often too much attention paid to the overall highest ranked schools. There are a LOT of universities in the US where a student can get a very good education, and it really is not necessary to attend a “top 50” university to do very well in life.

I know a bunch of people who have attended one of the schools on this list and done very, very well in life.

Case in point. I was at dinner recently at our boat club and one of the guys mentioned that he had gone to Manhattan College (now “University”). A newcomer who commutes down to NYC piped up, “Half the guys I work with are from Manhattan College.” He works at Con Ed and he was talking about the other engineers he works with. Manhattan has a good engineering school with about 900 students in a small “university” of about 3000. It also has a business school with a big NYC network. As reported by Payscale and other similar salary sources, their graduate do quite well.