Forget Harvard: Penn State, public schools outscore Ivies in jobs survey

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By Globe Staff

Employment recruiters say that public universities are producing the most prepared and well-rounded prospects for entry-level jobs, with better life skills to fit in to their corporate cultures and prosper, according to a survey of 479 recruiters by the Wall Street Journal.

Is Harvard preparing students for jobs?

A top 25 list developed by the newspaper included 19 public universities and only one New England institution, MIT, which ranked No. 23.

While critical thinking and the intellect of Ivy Leaguers are appreciated, recruiters are looking for practical skills for new product developers, operations managers, engineers, and business analysts, a related Journal article says. The article notes that with recruiting budgets down, companies are visiting fewer and larger schools to be more efficient.

Why not Harvard? Many recent Crimson grads are only dabbling in the job market before achieving higher degrees, Harvard economics professor Claudia Goldin told the newspaper -- a fact job recruiters have noted.

Here are the rankings:

1. Penn State
2. Texas A&M
3. University of Illinois
4. Purdue
5. Arizona State
6. University of Michigan
7. Georgia Tech
8. Maryland
9. Florida
10. Carnegie Mellon
11. Brigham Young
12. Ohio State
13. Virginia Tech
14. Cornell
15. UCal-Berkeley
16. Wisconsin
17. UCLA
18. Texas Tech
19. (tie) NC State, Virginia
21. Rutgers
22. Notre Dame
23. MIT
24. USC
25. (tie) Washington State
25. North Carolina-Chapel Hill

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