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<p>There are over 500 engineering schools. Where do you start looking?</p>
<p>I’ve been involved in recruiting, as well. Depending on the number of new hires you normally target, you develop a list of schools to recruit. That list comes from the local flagships, the top USNews schools, and any schools with which you already have a relationship (such as the CEO’s alma mater). You recruit those schools for a number of years and monitor metrics (the average tenure of a student coming from that school in your company, the average conversion rates of interview to offer and from offer to acceptance, the performance evaluations of students from those schools, etc.) If a school starts to drop off in a metric, you leave and start recruiting another. How do you pick that new school? Probably from the USNews top 15 list.</p>