Recruiting Information – why don’t tech schools advertise them?
Check out www.ece.utexas.edu and www.ece.cmu.edu
Also, check out www.mccombs.utexas.edu and www.isb.edu
One glaring difference you can see is that “Placement and Recruiting” is advertised like crazy in b-school websites. The ECE departments have a simple link to their career services website and don’t even have information on which companies usually come on campus to recruit.
Even between b-schools, there’s a lot of difference. ISB and IIMs even go to the extent of naming their top-salaried students. US B-schools do give out numbers but don’t divulge personal information.
Is there a specific reason for all this? I am not sure, but let me come up with some
1) B-Schools have nothing else important to post on their website. Faculty and research info isn’t enough to attract top students.
2) It is assumed that – money and placements shouldn’t be reasons why you should stay tech, if you are interested only in the money, just go to b-school
3) The main reason to go to b-schools is the job and the money as opposed to the “knowledge” you gain at tech/engineering schools :-P
4) Engineering/tech smart asses can figure out where they will get to work themselves as opposed to b-school folks who need to be told what their options are…
Ok…guess it time to cut the crap. The only sane reason I can think of is probably, some b-school started publishing placement information and figured out that this attracted the best-possible set of students, so everybody else followed suit.
On the other hand, maybe tech schools didn’t want to change their winning combination and believed that just information about research and faculty got them the kind of student population they wanted. In general though, I think it’s definitely a good idea for tech schools to start publishing recruiting information, just so that incoming students can plan their careers better.
Also, check out www.mccombs.utexas.edu and www.isb.edu
One glaring difference you can see is that “Placement and Recruiting” is advertised like crazy in b-school websites. The ECE departments have a simple link to their career services website and don’t even have information on which companies usually come on campus to recruit.
Even between b-schools, there’s a lot of difference. ISB and IIMs even go to the extent of naming their top-salaried students. US B-schools do give out numbers but don’t divulge personal information.
Is there a specific reason for all this? I am not sure, but let me come up with some
1) B-Schools have nothing else important to post on their website. Faculty and research info isn’t enough to attract top students.
2) It is assumed that – money and placements shouldn’t be reasons why you should stay tech, if you are interested only in the money, just go to b-school
3) The main reason to go to b-schools is the job and the money as opposed to the “knowledge” you gain at tech/engineering schools :-P
4) Engineering/tech smart asses can figure out where they will get to work themselves as opposed to b-school folks who need to be told what their options are…
Ok…guess it time to cut the crap. The only sane reason I can think of is probably, some b-school started publishing placement information and figured out that this attracted the best-possible set of students, so everybody else followed suit.
On the other hand, maybe tech schools didn’t want to change their winning combination and believed that just information about research and faculty got them the kind of student population they wanted. In general though, I think it’s definitely a good idea for tech schools to start publishing recruiting information, just so that incoming students can plan their careers better.
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posted by Prem at
4/25/2006
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