<p>“The only statistics that are meaningful to prospective students are graduate representation in elite medical, law, and business programs since this pertains to a vast segments of students and since this metric measures actual outcomes, it can’t be manipulated.”</p>
<p>In the real world (read: not CC), most prospective college students will not end up pursuing graduate work of any kind, much less in the three relatively narrow disciplines you listed. My guess is that the WSJ list they’d find even more interesting is the one in which large employers of recent college graduates list out the schools they find to be the most productive feeders. </p>
<p>Heck, even Duke kids eventually have to get a job, don’t they? (Or, to put it differently, the one in my house had better.)</p>