Top Colleges for Finance, Tech and Consulting WSJ Article

BKSquared
Mon, 01 Apr 2024 14:27:21 +0000

Agree there is the usual question of causation vs correlation. Some of this may also relate to the subsets within each sector that graduates of each college gravitate to which may be disproportionate relative to other colleges. Let’s use MIT which is number 1 for Finance, but with only a relatively low percent of grads. It’s likely that a relatively high percent of MIT grads in finance get very high paying jobs with quant type funds vs run of the mill finance jobs. The opposite is true for MIT in terms of the Tech sector where it falls to 11 and where a larger percent of grads seek jobs, so it is likely the types of jobs are more varied in type and in compensation.

It was a bit surprising that Claremont out performed Williams and Amherst in Finance, which have a reputation as being “Wall Street” feeders.