Poll: Following unchecked campus controversy, Ivy League grads will have a harder time finding jobs
April 29, 2024
The Ivy League colleges are going bankrupt. They’re not going financially bankrupt – they have far too much money for that. They are, though, going intellectually bankrupt, and for a college, that also means educationally bankrupt.
“33% of those making hiring decisions said they are less likely to hire Ivy League graduates today than five years ago. Only 7% said they were more likely to hire them.”
We could think that’s about all colleges, of course, but no:
Forbes also surveyed the hirers about public university graduates and the grads of good non-Ivy private colleges, and the numbers are almost precisely the opposite of the Ivy results, with 42% saying they are more likely to hire public university grads and 37% saying they are more likely to hire grads of non-Ivy League private colleges than five years ago. Only about 5% say they are less likely to hire from either group.
What this tells us is that Ivies are regarded as less good than they used to be, while publics and other private colleges are regarded as better than they used to be – we can take that as relative to each other only if we like.
So the Ivies are doing something wrong as compared to those other colleges. What is it that employers think that is?
“The perception of what those graduates bring has changed. And I think it’s more related to what they’re actually teaching and what they walk away with.”
The teaching is getting worse – they’ve gone woke and are thus going broke. For that’s what is does mean for a very expensive private college. The students go there and pay the costs because they know that, on leaving, they’re the elite that can walk into any job. But if that being part of the elite doesn’t happen, nor will the students arrive, nor will they pay those fees.
The only thing we don’t know here is whether the Ivy League colleges will realize this and reverse course or whether they will lose their position as that elite wholly and totally.