Michigan vs Boston College

GoBlue81
Fri, 23 Feb 2007 20:24:47 +0000

Let’s play a game for a second. Think about the following cities and tell me if you really think that business people in those locales think of Michigan as an elite university comparable to the lower level of the Ivies and other top privates:

A.T.Kearney, Citigroup, Boston Consulting, Microsoft, McKinsey, Amazon, Intel, Johnson & Johnson, Bain & Company, B.A. Hamilton, UBS, Bank of America, DiamonCluster Int’l, General Mills, Kraft Foods, Lehman Brothers, Proctor & Gamble, American Express, Cisco, General Electric, JPMorganChase, Samsung, United Airlines, 3M, Deloitte…

AMD, General Motors, General Electric, Capital One, Lockheed Martin, Microsoft, Bank of America, Boeing, Raytheon, Dow Corning, Exxon, Chevron, Shell, BP…

These are some of the top hiring companies for Michigan grads. I can go on and on, but I think you see my point. Most, if not all, of the Fortune 500 companies recruit at Michigan. If they don’t think highly of Michigan grads, why would they come to recruit year after year? Now may be some of the local businesses at those cities have not heard of Michigan, so what? Michigan certainly gets the attention at their corporate HQs and nation-wide recruiting. Can you make the same claim about BC (afterall, this is the Michigan vs. BC thread)? Btw, you may find a lot of Michigan grads working in those cities.

I used to work in Houston and my Michigan diploma certainly got the respect in the professional circle. I’m not sure BC has the same reputation down south. Michigan is well know in Asia whereas few has heard of BC. Alexandre will probably tell you the same in Europe.