UMD Received High Marks From Recruiters (and WSJ)

ELY
Tue, 14 Sep 2010 12:33:41 +0000

Although this latest ranking (from 9/13 Wall Street Journal) is getting hashed & re-hashed on other CC treads, I think we’re free to gloat a bit here on the UMD thread!

[College Rankings - WSJ.com](http://online.wsj.com/public/page/rankings-career-college-majors.html?refresh=on)

Here’s a summary of the methodology:

842 firms were contacted and asked to rank–from the pool of schools each actively recruited–the ten that produced graduates most able to succeed when hired. the first place school on each recruiters list received ten points; the tenth place school received one. these numbers were then weighted based on the number of hires that recruiting company made (presumably by multiplying the points awarded by the number of hires, but this isnt explicit). the weighted points for each company were then summed to arrive at the published ranking.