Notre Dame is the 8th Ranked School for Getting Rich
posted by The Rock
Talk about a recruiting advantage. Notre Dame can point to its stellar graduation rate, CFA awards, top 3 business school, successful alumni and team GPA as advantages, but Forbes magazine just came out with cold hard facts to complete the picture. Measured in dollars, Notre Dame was the only major football school (I suppose you could call Stanford a major football school *wink*) in the top 10 in Forbes' list of Top Colleges For Getting Rich with UC Berkeley being the only other major football school in the Top 20.
The Irish finished far ahead of many Ivy Leagues schools and were just two places behind Harvard and one behind UPenn. Sorry Urban, no Florida on the list. That's one tradition you can't steal and these aren't facts you can twist. You have to, literally, earn your way onto the list.
The Irish finished far ahead of many Ivy Leagues schools and were just two places behind Harvard and one behind UPenn. Sorry Urban, no Florida on the list. That's one tradition you can't steal and these aren't facts you can twist. You have to, literally, earn your way onto the list.
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6 Comments:
So can I bring this into my boss and demand a raise?
ND grads are also in the top rankings for donating to their school and to charities.
Stanford beat USC, last year, & they were ND's last game, where ND
with a very young team overall & with the veterans also playing key roles, won ! + Stanford says they're SMARTER than we are...but they still lost ! Thanks, CW, for
making the right calls !
I think it has more to do with the financial make-up of the student body more than anything.
At least in my experience, if you aren't on scholarship, somebody has to pay the $50,000 a year tuition - and while some kids take out $200,000 in student loans, most do not at ND.
As proof, I would encourage someone to walk through the student parking lot and see the miniature BMW, Lexus, and Range Rover car lots =)
Patrick -
ND used to be considerably more blue collar. It has become more elite in terms of socio-economics, but these statistics are probably based on older classes.
Additionally, I would suggest Stanford and Harvard kids come from even greater relative wealth so I think your point is moot.
I think the reason for ND's high rating in this area is due to something the associate dean of the grad school mentioned to me a couple of years ago:
Notre Dame, as compared to other schools that could be considered in the Top 50 or so academic institutions, has a higher percentage of students who go on to post-graduate 'professional' degrees - medical school, law school, MBA. However, they have a lower percentage of students who go on to post-graduate 'academic' degrees (Liberal Arts, Engineering, Research Science, etc.). The salaries of most doctors, lawyers, and successful businessmen are generally a good deal higher than most 'academics', save for a small minority of 'superstar' academics, researchers, and frequent publishers.
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