In find the wsj ranking a bit misleading. It is interesting and informative. More surprising than anything else.
It’s a bit shocking at how few grads are going straight to grad school. On cc it seems the plan of every poster.
Perhaps the survey doesn’t track long enough. Med school law school and especially MBAs all tend to have a few years out of school before going, especially leading b schools . It is nearly mandatory.
The engineering schools are artificially low too.
Lastly and most importantly, is after you go down a few spots everyone is in the single digits. No one should choose a school because 5 or 20 kids or 9% or 3% out of class go to grad school. In absolute terms, the bigger schools have a larger cohort. Maybe it gives them more of the “elite minds” to “hang out” with that lots of posters point to for the smaller schools.