LinkedIn has announced its own college ranking system, choosing the top 25 universities across eight categories of study.
Using patterns of employment to identify in-demand career fields, LinkedIn then looked at the number of graduates that got “desirable” jobs in that field.
“For example, we define desirable finance jobs as finance jobs at companies desirable for finance professionals,” LinkedIn said in a blog post.
LinkedIn started their rankings by identifying companies where people from the various rankings categories choose to work. Then they examined their more than 300 million people on LinkedIn to see where people working in the various rankings categories went to school.
Last, they figure out what percent of alumni from these schools were hired at the identified top companies. Comparing those percentages is how the LinkedIn rankings were ultimately determined.
Four of the eight rankings categories are business-related, with rankings for accounting, finance, marketing and investment banking.
Here are LinkedIn’s top ten best schools for accounting professionals:
1. Villanova University
2. University of Notre Dame
3. Boston College
4. Lehigh University
4. Emory University
6. University of Southern California
7. Fairfield University
8. Santa Clara University
9. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
10. Wake Forest University
Here are LinkedIn’s top ten best schools for finance professionals:
1. University of Pennsylvania
2. Yale University
3. Georgetown University
4. Princeton University
5. Columbia University
6. New York University
7. Duke University
8. Harvard University
9. Cornell University
10. Dartmouth College
Here are LinkedIn’s top ten best schools for marketing professionals:
1. University of Pennsylvania
2. University of Michigan
3. Harvard University
4. New York University
5. Cornell University
6. Georgetown University
7. Stanford University
8. University of California, Berkeley
9. Northwestern University
10. University of Texas at Austin
Here are LinkedIn’s top ten best schools for investment bankers:
1. Georgetown University
2. University of Pennsylvania
3. Yale University
4. Duke University
4. Columbia University
6. Princeton University
7. New York University
8. Wellesley College
9. Cornell University
10. Dartmouth College
The rankings also covered the best colleges for designers, media professionals, software developers and software developers at startups.
