USNews RANKINGS OUT

Thoughts? IMO Hopkins too high, Columbia too low, Cornell too high, Berkeley / UCLA too high

1 - Princeton
2 - MIT
3 - Harvard
4 - Stanford, Yale
6 - UChicago
7 - Duke, Johns Hopkins, Northwestern, UPenn
11 - Caltech
12 - Cornell
13 - Brown, Dartmouth
15 - Columbia, Berkeley
17 - Rice, UCLA, Vanderbilt
20 - Carnegie Mellon, UMichigan, Notre Dame, WUSTL

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One thing to keep in mind that WSO users seem to forget is the world is not all Wall Street type of jobs. Looking at these rankings through the lens of a finance career is shortsighted.

These universities also comprise of engineering departments, theater schools, English classes, chemistry labs, etc. They don't just exist so students can graduate, get two years of IB, and then jump to the buyside.

Lots of people pursue careers outside of finance, like medicine, law, or academia. Comparing schools via this ranking on how much of a target they are is missing a lot of the big picture of why universities exist and who they serve.

 

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