<p>^Yeah, because all of your posts about Stanford are overly biased…</p>
<p>Cue–I don’t see why the strong connection to the finance industry is a proper factor. You are certainly right that a school like Hopkins sends proportionately fewer students to Wall Street than say, Penn or Dartmouth. But that’s largely because relatively few students at Hopkins want to go to Wall Street (those that do generally fare pretty well–see Michael Bloomberg for instance). Traditionally, most Hopkins graduates go to medical school, law school, or graduate school. Finance simply has not attracted all that many Hopkins students. So what? Particularly today, I’m not sure that many people would consider “connections to the finance industry” an indicia of prestige, or even a particularly desirable trait.</p>
<p>I definitely agree with Bonanza. The majority of students at schools like Hopkins and WashU don’t LIKE wall street or business. Hence why they chose the schools that they did. The ones who DO want to work on wall street can be found aplenty in UPenn, NYU, Harvard, etc.</p>
<p>Students from Hopkins who do want to work at Wall Street are still placed very very well. However, as Bonanza stated, the majority of Hopkins students are either: a) medical hopefuls b) international relations hopefuls c) law hopefuls d) engineering students e) grad school hopefuls.</p>
<p>Only in 2007 did Johns Hopkins open up a Business School, the new Carey Business School, and I suspect that it will start to do very well within these next couple of years.</p>
<p>Bonanza and hope2getrice, in the past couple years or so, banking has certainly lost its luster. All of the ivies however, enjoy great placement in all the areas you mention AND great placement in finance. Traditionally, finance, or, well, to be crass, just money was a big factor and supposed edge given to ivy leaguers. In the past few decades, Stanford, Duke, Chicago, and Northwestern have certainly caught up to rival their immediate peers in the ivy league. I think Wash U and Hopkins still lag on this front, although they do have very good placement.</p>
<p>For lack of a better way of putting it, finance/money/banking went hand in hand with the ivy league reputation for quite a while. This placement then attracts loads of prospective students, and I don’t think Hopkins and Wash U are quite on par yet (though they may rise in the years ahead).</p>
<p>Cue7, as I can’t speak much for WashU, I will speak for Hopkins. Hopkins has only begun to attract students who are even remotely interested in a career on Wall Street. How can you possibly use banking/finance placement to judge schools that don’t attract students who don’t want finance/banking? It’s like judging the amount of writers that come out of a music school like Julliard vs. Amherst, and choosing that as a means of judging prestige.</p>
<p>We can have this same conversation in 5 years time, after JHU’s Business School has been better established.</p>
<p>It takes more than 5 years to make a business school work. Yale started one 30 years ago and it’s nice, but still not Yale nice…</p>