BANGALORE: Think of the five most important things that you look for in a college, and the most common answers are good infrastructure, qualified faculty, campus location, and class size. Most of us often ignore an important factor of what that college can offer you after the graduation—like valuable connections that are useful in the long run.
Networking is the most important tool to any student after graduation, and this must be built during the college days itself. Having strong connections with alumni can make all the difference in landing jobs in top companies.
The college you opt for makes a lot of difference. However, there are many who argue that talent matters more; but it is unlikely that you can get things done just through knowledge you possess in today’s world.
The peers, faculty, and alumni support are assets, which are earned in college. GraduatePrograms.com, a website where the students can review graduate programs, pulled out a list of colleges, which scored highest in the ‘Values Of Network.’
Here are the ten schools that come out on top:
University of Pennsylvania:
Interdisciplinary joint degrees are what the University of Pennsylvania is known for. Penn, as they call it, is the most prolific of all Ivy schools. According to the U.S News and world report, Penn is ranked 8^th overall in the U.S. Its student diversity is an added advantage where the students have the opportunity to open themselves to wider scope of knowledge and fields of interests.
University of California, Berkeley:
The private college of California is one of the oldest institutions in the University of California system and offers approximately 350 undergraduate and graduate degree programs in a wide range of disciplines. So when it comes to competitiveness, just 18 percent of applicants gain entry to Berkeley, the lowest admission rate on the list. But among the incoming grads, 36 percent score more than 700 on the verbal SATs; 56 percent beat that score in mathematics.
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