Yale Fails in Economist's School Rankings
College rankings: weāve all seen āem. More specifically, weāve all had to listen to that annoying kid in high school complaining about how school rankings are arbitrary and donāt really mean anything. Heās probably not wrong, but is it so horrible to feel a twinge of school pride when you see the big H sitting up at #1? And doesnāt it feel even better to occasionally see our favorite Connecticut safety school slide down a few places? More room to cushion the blow of our soon-to-be-9th consecutive victory.
Unfortunately for our good friends in New Haven, The Economist recently published a ranking of colleges based on how alumni over or underperformed expectations of earning potential, and Yale did not fare so well.
Harvard clocked in at a solid #4: 10 years after they kiss Cambridge goodbye, alumni earn a median of $87,200, exceeding expectations by just shy of 13 grand. Feel free to tell your friends going into financeā they are doing something good for the world. You know, if by that you mean helping Harvard do well in college rankings.
If youāre looking at the online page of rankings on the Economistās website, you may be confused at first. Sure, Harvardās at #4, but skimming down the first page thereās no sign of Yale anywhere. Thatās right. Youāll have to click through 64 pages of schools before youāll find any mention of the Bulldogs. (Or you could just skip to the last page, but whereās the fun in that?)
Yep, Yale placed an unfortunate 1270th out of 1275 schools that the Economist ranked. Alumni undershot expected earnings by almost $10,000, or the equivalent of about 1/7 of a year at Yale. Oof.