I hate pretty much all of Andy's list
Number of applicants
I don't give a toss, this is a function of the marketing ability of the university not the quality of the course.
Number of admits
My tosslessness increases:
I'm one of the billion people who learned the ABC from Sesame Street, doesn't mean it's bad because it's open to many.
Fordham has a small entry, so being small doesn't mean good either.
Student profile
Average GRE, degree breakdown
Mildly interesting maybe one of my interns will be delegated to do the tiny amount of caring necessary.
Placement breakdown
Internship
That's the bit I don't hate
FT job rate for graduation
Surprisingly small spread, not sure there is enough signal to make good decisions.
and 3 months after graduation
Nope ,that's shit to make the alumni office's life easier. What you want is at least 18 months and preferable 2-3 years.
Yes, it's work.
Employer type
Good, but the lazy sods in the alumni offices won't do this. You want to buy serious beers for a serious headhunter and he might explain transition matrices. Do you equate Barclays product control with front office developer at Merrills ?
Location
More work for the intern whose job it is to care.
Harder reasons why this is bollocks.
First up does the school have a rigid and brutal test for grasp of English ?
Next what is the experience profile of people before they joined, far too few share this data making any comparison meaningless
What sort of jobs do people get 1,2,3,4 years after ?
But let's be honest with ourselves here...
You people don't care about any of this do you ?
What you want is an opinion poll on which schools are "liked" by big banks.
You simply don't want to learn, add value to your skills and prove to others you can do smart things.
Go look at the questions here and elsewhere.
Try to find one example of a prospective student asking things like "is the guy that teaches econometrics good at school X".
But you will find hundreds of people asking "has this school got a good reputation".
It's not a rational market, but to pervert a trading cliche "you can stay unemployed for just as long as the employment market remains irrational".
