{"id":5309,"date":"2017-01-31T16:03:17","date_gmt":"2017-02-01T00:03:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about-hmc\/?p=5309"},"modified":"2017-01-31T16:44:30","modified_gmt":"2017-02-01T00:44:30","slug":"harvey-mudd-ranks-high-career-placement-roi-princeton-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/2017\/01\/31\/harvey-mudd-ranks-high-career-placement-roi-princeton-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Harvey Mudd Ranks High for Career Placement and ROI in Princeton Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Harvey Mudd College ranked No. 2 for \u201cBest Career Placement\u201d and No. 4 for \u201cTop 50 Colleges That Pay You Back\u201d in The Princeton Review\u2019s 2017 edition of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.princetonreview.com\/college-rankings\/colleges-that-pay-you-back\"><em>Colleges That Pay You Back: The 200 Schools That Give You the Best Bang for Your Tuition Buck.<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Princeton Review made its selections based on return on investment ratings it tallied for 650 schools last year. The ratings weighted 40 data points that covered everything from academics, cost and financial aid to graduation rates, student debt and alumni salaries and job satisfaction. The Princeton Review editors culled data from the company\u2019s surveys of administrators and students in 2015\u20132016 and from PayScale\u2019s surveys of school alumni conducted through April 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Robert Franek, The Princeton Review\u2019s senior vice president\/publisher and lead author of the book,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.princetonreview.com\/press\/colleges-that-pay-you-back\/today-show\">told NBC\u2019s\u00a0<em>The Today Show<\/em><\/a>\u00a0about the five top colleges for ROI, including Harvey Mudd.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese are all exceptional schools,\u201d Franek said. \u201cThey are all exceptionally hard to get into, but once you are in return on these investments are going to be exceptional by way of discounted tuition and great jobs after you graduate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In the previous year\u2019s edition (2016), Harvey Mudd also ranked No. 4 for \u201cTop 50 Colleges That Pay You Back\u201d and No. 1 for \u201cBest Career Placement\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Harvey Mudd\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/career-services\/\">Office of Career Services<\/a>\u00a0(OCS) assists students in every stage of career development, from selecting a major and searching for jobs and internships to exploring careers and researching graduate schools. The office organizes well-attended fall and spring career fairs, which connect students with more than 150 prospective employers per year, allowing them to forge relationships with industry participants and to secure jobs and internships. OCS also offers many programs to help prepare students for life after Harvey Mudd, including networking workshops, mock interview training and a variety of career information sessions featuring both alumni and non-alumni recruiters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Harvey Mudd College ranked No. 2 for \u201cBest Career Placement\u201d and No. 4 for \u201cTop 50 Colleges That Pay You [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":2479,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[967],"class_list":["post-5309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general-feed"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5309\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}