WSJ Best Colleges According to Employers

It shows that the most popular are huge state schools.

1. Penn State (#47 in U.S. News)
2. Texas A&M (#63)
3. Illinois (#47)
4. Purdue (#56)
5. Arizona State (#143)
6. Michigan (#29)
7. Georgia Tech (#35)
8. Maryland (#56)
9. Florida (#53)
10. Carnegie Mellon (#23)
11. BYU (#75)
12. Ohio State (#56)
13. Virginia Tech (#69)
14. Cornell (#15)
15. UC-Berkeley (#22)
16. Wisconsin (#45)
17. UCLA (#25)
18. Texas Tech (#159)
19. North Carolina State (#111)
20. [Tie 19]  Virginia (#25)
21. Rutgers (#64)
22. Notre Dame (#19)
23. MIT (#7)
24. USC (#23)
25. North Carolina (#30)
26. [Tie 25]  Washington State (#111)

A few observations:
1. 19 of the WSJ top 26 are among the biggest schools in the nation indeed, fully half of the flagship state universities in the top 60 (16/32) are ranked - more graduates mean more employers, means more votes.
2. Engineering specialists or heavies compose 5 of the remaining 7 (GT, MIT, VT, Cornell, CMU).
3. Whose left:  the Catholics (Notre Dame) and Washington State (engineering, wheat?)
4. The two biggest corporate hiring majors are engineering and accounting.  This list simply tells you which schools churn out a lot of good ones in those two majors.  A&M and Illinois stand out in particular as being good at both.
5.  Schools that churn out lots of engineers and accountants probably have fewer than average difficult, challenging, aggressive, creative types.
6.  Corporations don't want kids that are too smart or too creative.  They want foot soldiers who know their place and rise up the ranks by doing well at what they're told.

All in all not surprising and not particularly useful if you want to find the most talented person.

Personally I don't understand why we are so focused on college grads anyway.  Give me a bright high school grad any day:  cheaper and minus four years of brain dead indoctrination by pseudo intellectual frauds.

But that's just me.