<p>The article states “Under pressure to cut costs and streamline their hiring efforts, recruiting managers find it’s more efficient to focus on fewer large schools and forge deeper relationships with them, according to a Wall Street Journal survey of top corporate recruiters whose companies last year hired 43,000 new graduates. Big state schools Pennsylvania State University, Texas A&M University and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign were the top three picks among recruiters surveyed.”</p>
<p>It does not say that they “prefer” the grads at the state schools over the ivy league grads. (I have one son who is an ivy grad; his friends all did quite well with their job and grad school placements.)</p>