Surprise Showing by Yale?

LinkedIn has introduced "University Rankings," which supposedly ranks universities by their placement into various professions (I can't post links but if you search "linkedin university rankings," it comes up). I was a little surprised to see Yale placed at #3 for "Investment Bankers," and #2 for "Finance Professionals," as Yale, from what I've seen, is regarded as less than Princeton and Harvard (which were 6 and 11 for investment banking and 4 and 8 for finance professionals, respectively) for finance placement. UPenn, as expected, ranked ahead of Yale in both areas. Thoughts?

 

I wasn't surprised that it ranked highly, just that it was placed over two of the schools that most on WSO seem to wet the bed over—I always got the feeling that HP was over-glorified by many posters on here

 

Top 3 places to be for finance recruiting: Harvard, Wharton, and Yale. If you want a career in finance, undergraduates have superior access at these three institutions above all.

Also Princeton recruiting isn't as strong...for some reason there's not as great of access to top employers and hedge funds. I've been noticing that Princeton kids were fewer than HY and Wharton in entry level finance positions. Don't know much about the higher ups.

 

Thanks for the insight; I didn't know that about Princeton—maybe the hype surrounding it on WSO is more centered on the perceived prestige, instead of actual job placement. Do you know why Harvard might have been ranked lower on the list, if it is indeed in the top 3 for finance (obviously, the list isn't definitive, but I would assume LinkedIn has done some analysis based on their registered users)?

 

Wharton has a separate page on Linkedin and you won't find Wharton students (incl. undergraduates) using Univ. of Pennsylvania as their alma matter.

I think you would find, if you included Wharton, Univ. of Pennsylvania would rank a lot higher for entrepreneurship as well be no. 1 for ibanking.

 

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