State schools better for finding jobs than Ivy League: WSJ

The Wall Street Journal recently surveyed 479 recruiters who hired 43,000 business grads last year, and learned that the state universities strongly outranked the Ivy League in recruiter preference: which schools produced graduates who were "the best-trained and educated, and best able to succeed once hired."

Here are the top ten, along with the USNews 2011 ranking for each:
Penn State (#47 in U.S. News)
Texas A&M (#63)
Illinois (#47)
Purdue (#56)
Arizona State (#143)
Michigan (#29)
Georgia Tech (#35)
Maryland (#56)
Florida (#53)
Carnegie Mellon (#23)

Only one Ivy League school [Cornell] made the top 25.

Fascinating, eh?

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