12 Colleges And Universities Recruiters Love (PHOTOS)

Want a job after college? Going to a state school may be the best way to get one, at least according to the Wall Street Journal's list of the Top 25 Colleges Ranked by Recruiters -- of the top ten schools, nine are public universities.

Time reports that the appeal of public schools lies in their large student bodies, which contain plenty of well-rounded students who are more willing to work locally.

Check the top 12 schools from the Journal's list below -- and see the full rundown here.

Did your school make the cut? What role did your education have in preparing you for work? Let us know in the comments section.

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[David Michael Wise]

12:20 AM on 10/07/2010

BYU ftw! Now if we could only get the football team to apply the ftw mantra.....

[Bradcorpse]

08:00 AM on 09/28/2010

I went to BYU. I loved some things, hated others...By the end I was absolutely dying to leave. But I got a great education, at least as far as preparing me for employment.

[Jimmy Boy]

12:53 AM on 09/23/2010

If I had to give my top 5 schools O would go to in order to recruit college kids to work for my company, they would be:

1 - University of Hawaii
2 - University Of Miami, FL
3 - University Of New Orleans
4 - University Of Nevada Las Vegas
5 - University Of Colorado (only during ski season though)

Additional School
University Of Key West FL (I know that school does not exist but damn Key West would be a fun trip).

[Wanda717]

12:36 AM on 09/23/2010

YIPPEEE.. The University of Florida ... GO GATORS!!!!

[prosha]

01:08 AM on 09/22/2010

Go Georgia Tech
Go Georgia Tech
Go Georgia Tech
Go Georgia Tech
When you say Budweiser
You've said it all

[garder54]

02:43 PM on 09/17/2010

Six Big Ten schools, love it. Best group of instituations in America next to the Ivy League

[garder54]

02:45 PM on 09/17/2010

Ok I meant five. I guess I just ruined my point. Oh the irony. *sigh*

[threesnapps]

10:35 AM on 09/15/2010

Yay Ga Tech! Quick question though: with all the beautiful buildings on campus, why oh why did they use a picture of one of the dining halls???

[Dan Butt]

03:49 PM on 09/14/2010

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[Ddorsey]

12:09 AM on 10/05/2010

You named this site noodlestorm?

[NoPCZone]

09:51 AM on 09/14/2010

5 of the 12 are Big Ten schools. Only one is an SEC school. Go figure.

[75thRanger]

01:12 PM on 09/14/2010

And?

“Sua Sponte”

1917, 1928, 1952, 1990

[C Smith]

08:45 PM on 09/20/2010

I can't see how they could possibly justify Florida over the academic powerhouse of the SEC, Vanderbilt...

[Scoppertop]

09:20 AM on 09/14/2010

Go Gators.

[Pennsylvanianne]

08:13 AM on 09/14/2010

Glad my alma mater was No. 1 but CMU is NOT a state university. It is PRIVATE, which is why its tuition is so out of sight. But a good education can be had at either Penn State or Carnegie Mellon. Still, this story begs the questions: how well did the Wall Street Journal writers do their research for this story? And where did the writers obtain THEIR educations? -- because I don't want to send my child to those schools!

[Jonathan Duggan]

07:07 AM on 09/14/2010

Worst pic of UM Ann Arbor Campus EVER

[jcabraham]

10:20 AM on 09/14/2010

Reminds me of many a sub-zero January night I was supposed to spend studying.

[thegreyarea]

01:44 AM on 09/14/2010

Penn State is an absolute joke of a school. Especially when it comes to academics.

The only reason that it would appear on this list is because so many of its students and alumni possess a disgusting and ridiculous 'rah-rah', flag-waving, 'we're better than everyone else (because WE say so)' mentality that causes them to give preferential treatment to their fellow Nittany Lions in hiring situations.

I ATTENDED PENN STATE and believe that the education that I received there was not worth 1/1000th of what I paid for it.

300+ person classes

Professors who are no doubt experts in their fields, but are only working at the University for research purposes and have no interest in teaching and absolutely no understanding of how to properly communicate the course material to students.

And I'm not even going to get into how ridiculously easy the actual coursework is. Anyone who manages to fail a class at Penn State has a serious learning deficiency.

If I were reviewing the resume of a prospective employee, and I saw that he/she attended Penn State, that person would have the same chance of being hired as an applicant who was fired from his last 5 jobs for stealing company property and freebasing meth in his cubicle.

[glockman]

07:45 AM on 09/14/2010

"300+ person classes"

"Professors who are no doubt experts in their fields, but are only working at the University for research purposes and have no interest in teaching and absolutely no understanding of how to properly communicate the course material to students."

"And I'm not even going to get into how ridiculously easy the actual coursework is."

You think it's any different at other state schools? And if ti was so bad, why didn't you transfer out? I did, my sophomore year. And judging the entire school based on your singular experience is foolish.

By the way, you just announced to the world that you don't deserve to be hired.

[thegreyarea]

02:32 PM on 09/14/2010

"You think it's any different at other state schools?"

I think other state schools probably have many of the same problems to varying degrees, though I doubt that many of them are as bad as PSU.

"And if ti was so bad, why didn't you transfer out? I did, my sophomore year."

Congratulations. I envy you and I wish that I had done the same. I foolishly thought that it would get better once I entered my major and began taking smaller, more intensive classes. But unfortunately, as the classes got smaller, the professors got exponentially worse. I was so disgusted by the end of Junior year that I attempted to transfer despite being less than 30 credits away from graduation. Unfortunately, by that point I would have lost a ton of credits in the transfer process, which would have been very expensive for me.

"And judging the entire school based on your singular experience is foolish"

When I spend 4 years of my life somewhere, and spend well in excess of $100k to be there, I will judge that place as much as I please.

"By the way, you just announced to the world that you don't deserve to be hired."

Well, you got me there. Maybe I should stop including my Huffington Post username at the top of my resume.

[alyosha]

05:30 PM on 09/14/2010

It sounds like you never really got past the large, lower level undergrad classes (300+ students). Either that or PSU wasn't that great of a place for your particular major (not all majors or departments are created equal, at any school).

BIg schools such as PSU are largely what you make of them. If you want a fine education, you can get it - there are lots of outstanding teachers and departments. If you want to take dumbed down classes and party all the time, you can do that too.

I had many peers who could not cut it at PSU, and who dropped out - these were bright people who by no means had serious learning deficiencies - just tough majors and tough course loads.

Now if they could lose the Joe Paterno fetish, this alum (1978) wouldn't be quite so embarassed by my alma mater, which I thought was a fine school for the majority of people there.

[thegreyarea]

01:09 PM on 09/15/2010

I actually completed all 4 years at PSU, and my major was in accounting, which is not exactly a soft major.

Though the classes got smaller once I began taking classes within my major, the professors only got worse.

I can't tell you how often I had to watch professors click through endless Powerpoint slides that simply regurgitate word-for-word passages from the textbook, never once stopping to ask if anyone has questions or needs clarification. I've even had professors in 400-level accounting classes roll their eyes at students who ask questions (as if shaming students in front of their classmates when they ask for clarification or elaboration is a good policy in the classroom).

In many cases I stopped attending class and simply taught myself the course material directly from the textbook, and then when the exams rolled around I generally scored +20 points above the class average. When a student who is teaching himself using only the textbook does +20 points better than the average student who attends class, that means that either the professor is not properly communicating the material or that the other students in the class are unintelligent.

When the only two explanations of a recurring phenomena are: A) The professors are incompetent; or B) The fellow students are simpletons, what does that say about the quality of the school?

I don't mean to belittle your education, perhaps things have changed significantly for the worse since 1978.

[InformedVoice]

01:09 AM on 09/14/2010

Too bad my school, Purdue, doesn't have too many career fairs for Political Science majors like me! =P

[jbarilla]

12:24 AM on 09/14/2010

I had a job waiting for me to begin a week after graduating from Penn State University and so did every one of my friends there. WE ARE!