Job recruiters find University of Michigan grads more valuable than Ivy Leaguers
University of Michigan graduates are more employable than alumni of Ivy League schools.
That's the conclusion of a Wall Street Journal survey of 479 professional recruiters, who ranked U-M as No. 6 on a list of "schools that produce the best graduates overall."
"Recruiters say graduates of top public universities are often among the most prepared and well-rounded academically, and companies have found they fit well into their corporate cultures and over time have the best track record in their firms," WSJ wrote.
U-M ranked behind Penn State, Texas A&M, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Purdue and Arizona State.
Others on the top 25 list include Carnegie Mellon (No. 10), Ohio State (No. 12), Cornell (No. 14), University of California-Berkeley (No. 15), University of Wisconsin-Madison (No. 16), Notre Dame (No. 22) and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (No. 23).
Harvard, Stanford, Princeton? Nowhere to be found on the list.
The WSJ said "corporate budget restraints" are prompting recruiters to focus their resources on state schools that have larger pools of graduates to draw upon. But the recruiters didn't mince words.
"Recruiters made clear they preferred big state schools over elite liberal arts schools, such as the Ivies," WSJ reported.
The story suggests that Google's 2006 decision to open an AdWords office in downtown Ann Arbor, where the Internet giant has easy access to U-M grads, was an example of corporations favoring state schools.
The survey also found that, to recruiters, U-M ranks No. 1 for business grads, No. 1 for finance, No. 3 for computer science, No. 6 for accounting, No. 6 for engineering and No. 7 for marketing and advertising.
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Comments
braggslaw
Tue, Sep 14, 2010 : 9:17 a.m.
If you majored in Nursing Engineering Accounting Computer Science Finance Etc. you will have a job. If you majored in general liberal arts English psychology political science fine art good luck
ElZ
Tue, Sep 14, 2010 : 8:42 a.m.
Would be interested to know if it's graduates of UM overall (including undergrad and grad schools and Dearborn) or if it's just UM undergrads. I know quite a few people with UM degrees who aren't seeing results in their job searches...
braggslaw
Mon, Sep 13, 2010 : 8:29 p.m.
The ivied have gone so far left.....who wants to deal with lazy intellectual liberal arts majors who want the govt. To take care of them?
natron3030
Mon, Sep 13, 2010 : 1:18 p.m.
Nobody pimps themselves as much as UofM does :) Not a bad thing though.. pride is good... though not toooo much pride. Anyhow MSU is the number one school for nuclear physics passing MIT this year. Thought I would share that and see how people respond :) Congrats on the rankings.