Best Colleges for Career Outcomes 2026
Top colleges for job placement, recruiting, and career outcomes ranked by community votes.
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA · Private
1680
88% win
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, MA · Private
1671
84% win
Ohio State University
Columbus, OH · Public
1658
94% win
University of Chicago
Chicago, IL · Private
1655
94% win
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA · Public
1649
93% win
Stanford University
Stanford, CA · Private
1637
82% win
Harvey Mudd College
Claremont, CA · Private
1637
80% win
Georgia Institute of Technology
Atlanta, GA · Public
1631
92% win
California Institute of Technology
Pasadena, CA · Private
1620
77% win
Harvard University
Cambridge, MA · Private
1618
78% win
University of Texas at Austin
Austin, TX · Public
1606
80% win
Washington University in St. Louis
St. Louis, MO · Private
1603
69% win
Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore, MD · Private
1602
74% win
Princeton University
Princeton, NJ · Private
1600
78% win
Dartmouth College
Hanover, NH · Private
1600
79% win
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI · Public
1591
100% win
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA · Private
1590
82% win
Columbia University
New York, NY · Private
1590
71% win
Yale University
New Haven, CT · Private
1581
67% win
University of Washington
Seattle, WA · Public
1580
83% win
Swarthmore College
Swarthmore, PA · Private
1572
72% win
University of Notre Dame
Notre Dame, IN · Private
1571
63% win
Texas A&M University
College Station, TX · Public
1570
67% win
Northwestern University
Evanston, IL · Private
1568
82% win
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Urbana, IL · Public
1563
67% win