Which Colleges Have The Best Career/Placement Service ?

sakky
Sat, 26 Jan 2008 14:39:22 +0000

One of the greatest concerns of parents is this — will the degree my child earned in the college of her choice be recognized after graduation ?

In other words, parents do not want to spend top dollars on a 4 year college education only to find their child unemployable/unemployed after 4 years of hard work.

So, here’s a fair question to ask — which colleges in the USA have great career placements ? great internship porograms ? great job recruitment programs where companies go to to get fresh new, graduates ?



I think it should be noted that degree marketability often times depends more on what your major is than what school you got it from. Let’s face it. Some majors are (on average) simply more lucrative than others.

As a case in point, the average chemical engineering graduate (from all ChemE programs) earned a higher starting salary than the average Princeton graduate (from all majors). I don’t have the data for Harvard and Yale graduates, but I believe the data would similarly show that the average Harvard and Yale graduate makes a lower starting salary than does the average chemical engineering graduate nationwide.

http://money.cnn.com/2007/07/11/pf/college/starting_salaries/index.htm
http://web.princeton.edu/sites/career/data/surveys/CareerSurveyReport2007.html

Engineering is not the only highly marketable undergrad major. Others include accounting, nursing, computer science, and finance/economics/management.

Hence, those parents who are worried about future employability should be advising their children to study marketable subjects. I personally think one of the wiser deals around, if you can’t get into one of the top schools, is to just go to an average school and get a degree in engineering/CS/accounting/nursing.