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September 13, 2010 4:30 PM
Recruiters Prefer State Schools, Really?
That out-of-state education may not be worth it. It turns out state school graduates do pretty well in the job market. According to an article by Jennifer Merritt:
U.S. companies largely favor graduates of big state universities over Ivy League and other elite liberal-arts schools when hiring to fill entry-level jobs, a Wall Street Journal study found.
In the study—which surveyed 479 of the largest public and private companies, nonprofits and government agencies—Pennsylvania State University, Texas A&M University and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign ranked as top picks for graduates best prepared and most able to succeed.
While this is an interesting discovery, it’s perhaps a little early to conclude that human resource managers are really commonly thinking “the hell with Yale, let’s go with that UMass applicant.”
All this may be just a matter of scale. The top schools from which companies hire are also just very large schools. There’s a reason large corporations hire from these colleges; they simply have more students who apply. [Image via]
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Pat Regnier on September 13, 2010 6:21 PM:
Besides size, those top schools have something else in common: Huge technology, engineering, and undergraduate business programs. I suspect that's helping drive the results, too.
I went to Illinois. While a liberal arts major from U of I is at a disadvantage in the job market next to an Ivy grad, I don't think that's as true of computer engineering major.