Yale Fails in Economist's School Rankings

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College rankings: weā€™ve all seen ā€˜em. More specifically, weā€™ve all had to listen to that annoying kid in high school complaining about how school rankings are arbitrary and donā€™t really mean anything. Heā€™s 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 doesnā€™t 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 youā€™re looking at the online page of rankings on the Economistā€™s website, you may be confused at first. Sure, Harvardā€™s at #4, but skimming down the first page thereā€™s no sign of Yale anywhere. Thatā€™s right. Youā€™ll have to click through 64 pages of schools before youā€™ll find any mention of the Bulldogs. (Or you could just skip to the last page, but whereā€™s 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.

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