Top 25 U.S. Universities for Job Recruitment 2010

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

 

News Hub: State Schools Top Recruiter Rankings

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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.

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• See the complete Paths to Professions report.

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.

1. Pennsylvania State University

Penn State, with its main campus located in University Park, Pa., has undergraduates enrolled in more than 160 different majors. It has 20 undergraduate campuses, 10 of which offer University-owned housing. The school is 54% male and 46% female, representing 50 states and 131 countries. The average student/faculty ratio is 17:1.

How majors match up

• Accounting (5)
• Business/Economics (11)
• Computer Science (7)

• Engineering (9)
• Finance (6)
• MIS (2)

Upcoming Application Deadline: Nov. 30 
Tuition (2010-2011): In-state $15,250; Out-of-state $27,114 
Undergraduate Enrollment: 38,630 
Admissions Phone: 814-865-5471 
Admissions Email: admissions@psu.edu

2. Texas A&M University

This Texas school's main campus is in College Station, about 100 miles northwest of Houston and 100 miles northeast of Austin. The school has 10 individual colleges and boasts more than 800 student organizations ranging from athletics and recreation to professional and community service.

How majors match up

• Finance (5)
• Engineering (16)
• Business/Economics (24)

Upcoming Application Deadline: Jan. 15; Dec. 1 (priority) 
Tuition (2010-2011): In-state $8,387; Out-of-state $22,817 
Undergraduate Enrollment: 38,810 
Admissions Phone: 979-845-3741 
Admissions Email: admissions@tamu.edu

3. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, centrally located between Chicago, Indianapolis and St. Louis, has more than 150 majors and 1,000 student organizations. Students come from all 50 states and 118 countries. The school is 54% male and 46% female.

How majors match up

• Accounting (3)
• Engineering (4)
• Computer Science (9)
• Business/Economics (10)

Upcoming Application Deadline: Jan. 2 
Tuition (2010-2011): In-state $13,658-$18,386; Out-of-state $27,800-$32,528 
Undergraduate Enrollment: 31,209 
Admissions Phone: 217-333-0302 
Admissions Email:ugradadmissions@uiuc.edu

4. Purdue University

More than half of this Indiana university's students are from the state (62%) with 38% coming from elsewhere. Its West Lafayette campus offers more than 200 majors for undergraduates along with 18 intercollegiate sports teams and more than 850 student organizations.

How majors match up

• MIS (1)
• Engineering (2)
• Computer Science (8)

Upcoming Application Deadline: Nov. 15, other programs March 1 
Tuition (2010-2011): In-state $9,070-$10,408; Out-of-state $26,622-$27,960 
Undergraduate Enrollment: 29,851 
Admissions Phone: 765-494-1776 
Admissions Email:admissions@purdue.edu

5. Arizona State University

Arizona State University's four campuses are within the metro Phoenix area. The West campus is known for professional and liberal arts, its Polytechnic campus focuses on technology and innovation, the downtown Phoenix campus hosts the school's professional programs like journalism and public administration, and its Tempe campus is home to the university's research-based programs.

How majors match up

• Business/Economics (19)
• Engineering (24)

Upcoming Application Deadline: Feb.1 
Tuition (2010-2011): In-state $8,132; Out-of-state $20,296 
Undergraduate Enrollment: 54,277 
Admissions Phone: 480-965-7788 
Admissions Email: ugrading@asu.edu

6. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

This Michigan school's campus is in Ann Arbor offers more than 200 undergraduate degree programs and several thousand undergraduate research opportunities. There are more than 150 first-year seminars, with no more than 15-18 students each. The university boasts the most living alumni in the world: more than 400,000.

How majors match up

• Business/Economics (1)
• Finance (1)
• Computer Science (3)
• Accounting (6)
• Engineering (6)
• Marketing/Adv (7)

Upcoming Application Deadline: Nov. 1 (early); Feb. 1 (regular) 
Tuition (2010-2011): In-state: $11,837, Out-of-state: $36,001 
Undergraduate Enrollment: 26,208 
Admissions Phone: 734-764-7433
Admissions Email: n/a

7. Georgia Institute of Technology

Georgia Institute of Technology has nine schools and two outreach campuses -- one in Savannah and the other in Metz, France. The student body is 64% male. More than 60% of the university's students come from Georgia, with roughly 30% coming from out-of-state; another 10% are international students.

How majors match up

• Engineering (1)
• MIS (3)
• Computer Science (4)

Upcoming Application Deadline: Oct. 1 (early); Jan. 15 (regular) 
Tuition (2010-2011): In-state $8,716; Out-of-state $26,926 
Undergraduate Enrollment: 13,515 
Admissions Phone: 404-894-4154 
Admissions Email:admission@gatech.edu

8. University of Maryland, College Park

This Maryland school's campus, stretching 1,250 acres, is about 10 miles from Washington D.C. It enrolls 67% in-state students; the student body is made up of 47% women. There are 13 colleges and schools within the university, which offers 127 undergraduate majors.

How majors match up

• Engineering (3)
• Accounting (7)
• Computer Science (10)
• Business/Economics (21)

Upcoming Application Deadline: Nov. 1 (priority); Jan. 20 (regular) 
Tuition (2010-2011): In-state $8,415.44; Out-of-state $24,830.44 
Undergraduate Enrollment: 26,542 
Admissions Phone: 301-314-8385 
Admissions Email: um-admit@uga.umd.edu

9. University of Florida

University of Florida, located in Gainesville, is home to 16 colleges and more than 150 research centers and institutes. Its freshman retention rate hits 94%, with almost all students attending from in-state (97%). There are 60% women in the student body. Alumni, topping 330,000, live in all 50 states and 135 countries.

How majors match up

• Finance (12)
• Business/Economics (23)

Upcoming Application Deadline: Nov. 1 
Tuition (2010-2011): In-state $5,045; Out-of-state $27,322 
Undergraduate Enrollment: 36,386 
Admissions Phone: 352-392-1365 
Admissions Email: n/a

10. Carnegie Mellon University

Carnegie Mellon, located in Pittsburgh, Penn., sits on 143 acres in its urban campus. The university boasts a student/faculty ratio of 10:1. It consists of seven schools and colleges with just 17% of students coming from in-state. The school's motto "My heart is in the work," comes straight from Andrew Carnegie.

How majors match up

• Computer Science (1)
• Finance (4)
• Business/Economics (7)
• Engineering (21)

Upcoming Application Deadline: Nov. 1 (Early I); Dec. 1 (Early II); Jan. 1 (Regular) 
Tuition (2010-2011): $42,136 
Undergraduate Enrollment: 6,023 
Admissions Phone: 412-268-2082 
Admissions Email: 
undergraduate-admissions@andrew.cmu.edu

11. Brigham Young University

This Utah school's campus is situated in Provo, about 50 miles south of Salt Lake City. The most popular majors are exercise science, management and psychology. Students come from 110 countries and are almost evenly split between male and female. Almost one-quarter of students are married.

How majors match up

• Accounting (1)

Upcoming Application Deadline: Dec. 1 (Priority); Feb. 1 (Final) 
Tuition (2010-2011): Latter Day Saints $4,420; Non-Latter Day Saints $8,840 
Undergraduate Enrollment: 30,745 
Admissions Phone: 801-422-2507 
Admissions Email: admissions@byu.edu

12. Ohio State University

Ohio State, located in Columbus, was founded in 1870 as a land-grant university. It's the second-largest university campus in the United States, offering 14 colleges, 175 undergraduate majors and about 12,000 courses. Almost 80% of first-year classes have fewer than 40 students. The campus stretches across 1,700 acres and 457 buildings.

How majors match up

• Business/Economics (2)
• Accounting (10)
• Engineering (13)

Upcoming Application Deadline: Feb.1 
*Tuition (2009-2010): In-state $8,706; Out-of-state $22,278 
Undergraduate Enrollment: 41,348 
Admissions Phone: 614-292-3980 
Admissions Email: askabuckeye@osu.edu

13. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

This school offers nine colleges and 65 bachelor's degree programs. The main campus, located in Blacksburg, includes more than 125 buildings and 2,600 acres, which includes an airport. There's an average of 16 students to every faculty member.

How majors match up

• Engineering (5)
• Computer Science (5)

Upcoming Application Deadline: Nov. 1 (Early); Jan. 15 (Regular) 
Tuition (2010-2011): In-state $9,458; Out-of-state $23,217 
Undergraduate Enrollment: 23,558 
Admissions Phone: 540-231-6267 
Admissions Email: vtadmiss@vt.edu

14. Cornell University

This Ivy League school is located in the Finger Lakes region of central New York, about 225 miles to New York City. There are more than 500 student organizations, with attendees coming from all 50 states and more than 100 nations. Undergraduates pursue studies in more than 80 academic programs in the university's seven undergraduate colleges.

How majors match up

• Engineering (7)

Upcoming Application Deadline: Nov. 1 (Early); Jan. 3 (Regular) 
Tuition (2010-2011): $39,450 
Undergraduate Enrollment: 13,931 
Admissions Phone: 607-255-5241 
Admissions Email:admissions@cornell.edu

15. University of California - Berkeley

This Northern California school's Berkeley campus is just 15 miles from San Francisco. Almost three-quarters of undergraduate classes have fewer than 30 students. There are 14 colleges and schools with 130 academic departments and more than 80 interdisciplinary research units.

How majors match up

• Computer Science (2)
• Marketing/Adv (3)
• Finance (3)
• Business/Economics (6)
• Accounting (8)
• Engineering (12)

Upcoming Application Deadline: Nov. 30 
Tuition (2010-2011): In-state $12,462; Out-of-state $35,341 
Undergraduate Enrollment: 25,530 
Admissions Phone: 510-642-3175 
Admissions Email:ouars@uclink4.berkeley.edu

16. University of Wisconsin, Madison

This Wisconsin school's campus in Madison sits on almost 1,000 acres. The university also has an arboretum and experimental farms. About 65% of students are Wisconsin residents, 24% out-of-state and 11% come from Minnesota; the school offers discounted tuition to Minnesotans.

How majors match up

• Accounting (2)
• Marketing/Adv (5)
• Finance (8)
• Engineering (20)

Upcoming Application Deadline: Nov. 1 (First Notification Period); Feb. 1 (Second Notification Period) 
Tuition (2010-2011): In-state $9,050; Minnesota resident: $10,820 Out-of-state $24,300 
Undergraduate Enrollment: 30,343 
Admissions Phone: 608-262-3961 
Admissions Email:onwisconsin@admissions.wisc.edu

17. University of California, Los Angeles

This California school is situated in Westwood Village in Los Angeles, about five miles from the Pacific Ocean. There are 174 buildings on 419 acres. It has 12 professional schools with 118 undergraduate degree programs. There are more than 4,000 teaching faculty.

How majors match up

• Finance (7)
• Accounting (9)
• Business/Economics (17)
• Engineering (19)

Upcoming Application Deadline: Nov. 30 
Tuition (2010-2011): In-state $10,781; Out-of-state $33,660 
Undergraduate Enrollment: 26,687 
Admissions Phone: 310-825-3101 
Admissions Email:ugadm@saonet.ucla.edu

18. Texas Tech

Texas Tech is located in Lubbock in the South Plains of West Texas. It boasts students from every county in Texas -- about 95% of students are in-state. The school offers 150 undergraduate degree programs within 11 academic colleges. The school, founded in 1923, is in the Big 12 conference.

How majors match up

• Engineering (25)

Upcoming Application Deadline: May 1 
Tuition (2010-2011): In-state $8,260; Out-of-state $17,560 
Undergraduate Enrollment: 24,236 
Admissions Phone: 806-742-1480 
Admissions Email: admissions@ttu.edu

19 (tie). North Carolina State University, Raleigh

North Carolina State, an NCAA Division I university, has 10 undergraduate colleges serving students from all North Carolina counties. The majority of students -- 91% -- comes from in-state, and just more than half --56% -- are male.

How majors match up

• Engineering (15)

Upcoming Application Deadline: Oct. 15 (Early Action 1); Nov. 1 (Early Action 2); Feb. 1 (Regular) 
Tuition (2010-2011): In-state $5,829; Out-of-state $18,314 
Undergraduate Enrollment: 25,255 
Admissions Phone: 919-515-2434 
Admissions Email: undergrad—admissions@ncsu.edu

19 (tie). University of Virginia

Thomas Jefferson founded this school, located in Charlottesville, in 1819. It offers more than 60 majors in six undergraduate schools. Almost three-quarters are Virginian, with 54% women and 46% men. The university offers more than 480 public service and outreach programs.

How majors match up

• Business/Economics (9)

Upcoming Application Deadline: Jan. 1 
Tuition (2010-2011): In-state $10,836; Out-of-state $33,782 
Undergraduate Enrollment: 17,981 
Admissions Phone: 434-982-3200 
Admissions Email:undergradadmission@virginia.edu

21. Rutgers University, New Brunswick

This New Jersey school's main campus is in New Brunswick, about 35 miles from New York City. There are 27 schools and colleges offering more than 100 major undergraduate programs. Almost all -- 96% -- students are in-state, with 45% of the student body comprised of women.

How majors match up

• Business/Economics (3)

Upcoming Application Deadline: Nov. 1 (Early); Dec. 1 (Regular) 
Tuition (2010-2011): In-state $12,560; Out-of-state $24,316 
Undergraduate Enrollment: 29,095 
Admissions Phone: 732-932-4636 
Admissions Email:admissions@ugadm.rutgers.edu

22. University of Notre Dame

Notre Dame, founded in 1842, is an independent, national Catholic university adjacent to South Bend, Ind. and 90 miles east of Chicago. It stretches across 1,250 acres containing two lakes with 138 buildings in its four colleges and six major research institutes. The school also offers more than 40 centers and special programs. Just 7% of students come from Indiana.

Upcoming Application Deadline: Nov. 1 (Early); Dec. 31 (Regular) 
Tuition (2010-2011): $39,919 
Undergraduate Enrollment: 8,372 
Admissions Phone: 574-631-7505 
Admissions Email: admissions@nd.edu

23. Massachusetts Institute of Technology

This main campus of The Massachusetts Institue of Technology is located in Cambridge, extending 168 acres, some of which are across the Charles River Basin. The school accepted 10.7% of applicants in 2009, with just 10% in-state.

How majors match up

• Engineering (8)
• Computer Science (6)

Upcoming Application Deadline: Nov. 1 (Early); Jan. 1 (Regular) 
Tuition (2010-2011): $39,212 
Undergraduate Enrollment: 4,232 
Admissions Phone: 617-253-3400 
Admissions Email: admissions@mit.edu

24. University of Southern California

This California school's campus is in University Park, the heart of Los Angeles' downtown arts and education corridor. A little more than half of the students are Californians, and the school enrolls more international students than any other U.S. university. Out of almost 36,000 applicants, 24% were admitted. The student body is made up of 53% women.

Upcoming Application Deadline: Oct. 15 (Part 1); Dec. 1 (Scholarship Consideration); Jan. 10 (Regular) 
Tuition (2010-2011): $41,172 
Undergraduate Enrollment: 16,751 
Admissions Phone: 213-740-1111 
Admissions Email: admitusc@usc.edu

25. (tie) Washington State University

Four campuses with 12 colleges make up this Washington school, which is across the state -- or about 300 miles -- east of Seattle. There are four campuses with 12 colleges offering more than 200 fields of study and more than 100 majors. The student/faculty ratio is 15:1.

Upcoming Application Deadline: Jan. 31 (Priority) 
Tuition (2010-2011): In-state $9,488; Out-of-state $20,530 
Undergraduate Enrollment: 21,726 
Admissions Phone: 509-335-5586 
Admissions Email: admiss2@wsu.edu

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

UNC-Chapel Hill

Set in the town of Chapel Hill, this flagship state university has a diverse student body and offers 77 majors for undergraduates. Nearly 80% of the school's freshman are typically in the top 10% of their high school class.

Upcoming Application Deadline: 
Tuition (2010-2011): In-state ; Out-of-state
Undergraduate Enrollment: 17,981
Admissions Phone: 919-966-3621
Admissions Email: unchelp@admissions.unc.edu

WSJ 13 September 2010


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