Re: 41% of MIT grads go into finance and consulting

Straydog <asd@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:



On Tue, 5 Jun 2007, alexy wrote:

rick++ <rick303@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

http://web.mit.edu/facts/graduation.html

Of the 42% percent of MIT grads who dont attend grad school
41% go into finance or consulting. (17% if you include grad school).

I was surprised by the high number, but not when I read the
MIT newspapers in the autumn. There are large numbers of
ads from consulting companies. I presume they like the
analytical mind.

Exactly. And that is happening at other top-tier schools as well.
These kinds of employers care much more about the analytical abilities
developed than any specific subject matter learned.

In other words, if you can make money, then you can have a job.
Exactly. These are not eleemosynary organizations.

Sounds like MIT is accomplishing their objective. When I was looking
at schools with my son ten years ago, MIT said they were putting more
emphasis on rounding out their students' education in the humanities
and social sciences, since they were sick and tired of their
graduates, ten years after graduation, working for graduates from Ivy
League schools.

And, how does humanities and social sciences keep them from working for
grads of Ivies?

Well, it doesn't prevent it, of course. But the idea was that offering
a better-rounded curriculum would give their graduates who wanted to a
better chance of stepping out of purely technical roles.
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