Looking For ROI? These ‘Best Value’ Colleges Score Highest For Internships & Career Placement

CAREER PROSPECTS AT BEST VALUE COLLEGES

Princeton Review bases its career placement ranking on students’ rating of their career services at their schools through its survey as well as median starting and mid-career alumni salaries data from PayScale.com.

For prospective business students looking for a cross-reference of career data, see Poets&Quants’ first-year compensation data for all 104 business schools we ranked in 2025. We also have school-reported internship and employment rates for 2024 graduates.

Eight of the 20 Princeton Review ranked universities for career placement have P&Q ranked business programs for 2025, while five private universities do. You can see them in the tables below.

Top 20 Public Schools for Career Placements
Career Placement Rank	University	Location (City/State)	Full-Time Enrollment	P&Q Ranked B-School	2025 P&Q Rank
1	Georgia Institute of Technology	Atlanta, GA	20592	Scheller College of Business	15
2	University of California—Berkeley	Berkeley, CA	33104
3	Missouri University of Science and Technology	Rolla, MO	5510
4	University of Michigan—Ann Arbor	Ann Arbor, MI	34454	Ross School of Business	11
5	University of Virginia	Charlottesville, VA	17901	McIntire School of Commerce	4
6	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	Champaign, IL	35564	Gies College of Business	19
7	University of California—San Diego	La Jolla, CA	34955
8	Virginia Tech	Blacksburg, VA	31035		39
9	University of California—Los Angeles	Los Angeles, CA	33471
10	New Jersey Institute of Technology	Newark, NJ	10200
11	University of Washington	Seattle, WA	40754	Foster School of Business	32
12	University of California—Santa Barbara	Santa Barbara, CA	23181
13	Michigan Technological University	Houghton, MI	6022
14	University of California—Davis	Davis, CA	31162
15	Texas A&M University—College Station	College Station, TX	60710	Mays Business School	50
16	University of California—Irvine	Irvine, CA	30204
17	University of Texas at Austin	Austin, TX	43165
18	William & Mary	Williamsburg, VA	7055	Mason School of Business	20
19	Purdue University—West Lafayette	West Lafayette, IN	39170	Daniels School of Business	36
20	City University of New York—Baruch College	New York, NY	16496

Top 20 Private Schools for Career Placements
Career Placement Rank	University	Location (City/State)	Full-Time Enrollment	P&Q Ranked B-School	2025 P&Q Rank
1	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	Cambridge, MA	4535
2	Harvey Mudd College	Claremont, CA	921
3	California Institute of Technology	Pasadena, CA	987
4	Stanford University	Stanford, CA	8054
5	Princeton University	Princeton, NJ	5813
6	Harvard College	Cambridge, MA	7038
7	Carnegie Mellon University	Pittsburgh, PA	7824	Tepper School of Business	10
8	University of Pennsylvania	Philadelphia, PA	10013	The Wharton School	1
9	Claremont McKenna College	Claremont, CA	1390
10	Dartmouth College	Hanover, NH	4570
11	Yale University	New Haven, CT	6818
12	Stevens Institute of Technology	Hoboken, NJ	4236
13	Santa Clara University	Santa Clara, CA	6577
14	Babson College	Babson Park, MA	2793
15	Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Worcester, MA	5558	The Business School at WPI	42
16	Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology	Terre Haute, IN	2315
17	Lehigh University	Bethlehem, PA	5911	College of Business	26
18	Cornell University	Ithaca, NY	16128	Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management	2
19	Colgate University	Hamilton, NY	3193
20	Columbia University	New York, NY	9134

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