Top 25 Universities Ranked by Recruiters

YEAH!!! My alma mater made the list. Go Cougs!

Below are the Top 25 schools whose graduates were the top-rated by recruiters.

Jennifer Merritt discusses a new Wall Street Journal survey, which reveals recruiters are shifting their attention away from elite private schools to focus instead on state universities.

See a sortable chart of the industries and the number of companies in each that answered the survey. Under each school you'll see any individual majors where companies also ranked the school, along with other general information about the school's location, application deadlines and student body. Click on each school name to go to the university's website.

Where possible, we've pulled school-related data on number of students, tuition, application deadline, undergraduate enrollment and admissions contact information directly from each institution's website.

In some cases, data was collected via school profiles on collegeboard.com. Logos were requested from the schools.

The Top 25 Recruiter Picks

1. Pennsylvania State University

2. Texas A&M University

3. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

4. Purdue University

5. Arizona State University

6. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

7. Georgia Institute of Technology

8. University of Maryland, College Park

9. University of Florida

10. Carnegie Mellon University

11. Brigham Young University

12. Ohio State University

13. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

14. Cornell University

15. University of California - Berkeley

16. University of Wisconsin, Madison

17. University of California, Los Angeles

18. Texas Tech

19 (tie). North Carolina State University, Raleigh

19 (tie). University of Virginia

21. Rutgers University, New Brunswick

22. University of Notre Dame

23. Massachusetts Institute of Technology

24. University of Southern California

25. (tie) Washington State University

25. (tie) University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill