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<p>frugaldoctor, what are good, usable metrics for the other outcomes you mentioned?</p>
<p>For example, how would a HS student measure and compare how far away a school’s alumni are finding jobs? </p>
<p>Where is a good source for comparing admission application and acceptance rates for a wide variety of graduate and professional schools? Some years ago, the Wall Street Journal did a ranking of “feeder schools” for a collection of ~15 law, medical, and business schools. I’ve never seen this repeated on a larger scale. A HS student could poke around on individual college web sites for statistics on the number of alumni who go to grad school … but the site won’t necessarily tell you much about the competitiveness of those graduate school programs (aside from mentioning a few schools where graduates have been admitted). The data may not be expressed in numbers that are easily compared from college to college. </p>
<p>Ditto for the size/competitiveness of alumni employers. Some business schools do publish detailed stats on the number of recent graduates hired by certain sought-after employers. I’m not familiar with any sites that make it easy to compare colleges, systematically, for employment in a wide variety of sectors. How would I find out, for example, which colleges are the best “feeders” into top advertising firms, publishing firms, or biomedical research companies? </p>
<p>Payscale.com does have data comparing compensation for some majors, for some schools.
It is self-reported data. It deliberately excludes alumni who have earned graduate degrees. For each covered major, it only shows about 20 schools.
<a href=“http://www.payscale.com/college-salary-report-2014/best-schools-by-major”>http://www.payscale.com/college-salary-report-2014/best-schools-by-major</a></p>