Why the detest on Coastal? Arguably, Jacksonville is a better lacrosse school but I cannot say they are better academically. It appears some of you are willing to let Jacksonville slide due to their rankings, but pour out your real feelings when the team doesn't have the ranking.
I am the originator of the post on Coastal. Nothing against Coastal. But I don’t want my daughter going to Coastal. But I wouldn’t want her going to Jacksonville either. I could care less what their rankings are. I wish my daughter goes to the best school academically she can make and play lacrosse at. That is not Coastal. I’m sorry. Great location but not a great school.
Education, prestigious, and employment wise, it matters more where your daughter gets her graduate degree (s). An undergraduate B.S. is just a B.S. degree no matter what university she attends.
Lol, kids coming out of top 10 schools get the best jobs and are receiving starting salaries of over $150k. BC and MD grads are not offered the same jobs Princeton and Penn grads. Also is very hard to get into a prestigious graduate school coming out of a mediocre undergraduate program where you major in lacrosse. Not saying it never happens but odds are against.
Plenty of BC and MD grads doing VERY well for themselves!! Check out the alumni networks. News flash, not all companies necessarily love ivy grads. Pretentious
Nice list! Looks like nearly all of these schools have women's lacrosse programs.
1. Massachusetts Institute of Technology MA $98,100 2. Stanford University CA $92,400 3. Harvard University MA $85,300 4. Princeton University NJ $85,200 5. Yale University CT $81,900 6. University of Pennsylvania PA $81,500 7. Columbia University NY $80,900 8. Duke University NC $80,300 9. Dartmouth College NH $80,000 10. Rice University TX $79,800 11. University of California, Berkeley CA $79,200 12. Cornell University NY $79,100 13. Johns Hopkins University MD $77,900 14. Brown University RI $76,800 15. Williams College MA $73,900 16. Georgetown University DC $73,800 17. Vanderbilt University TN $73,800 18. University of Chicago IL $73,300 19. University of Southern California CA $72,600 20. Amherst College MA $72,600 21. University of Michigan MI $72,100 22. University of California, San Diego CA $71,700 23. Northwestern University IL $71, 600 24. University of California, Los Angeles CA $70,000 25. University of California, Davis CA $68,700
in my experience a lot of these schools are NEED based meaning you are not going to get a lot of money from them. It all sounds awesome, but some don't want to come out with all that debt. You can certainly play lax at any of these schools. Whats important to some isn't to others...you can get a good education a fabulous one for that matter at many other schools, play lax and not end up in fool debt
To each their own... See below additional "lists". (taken from previous posts / thread).
While I believe it's great for a kid to go to The Best school it is Best to go to Right (best fit) school.
Every kid is different and every school is different and every program is different. Help your sons and or daughters find the best fit.
-- "Below are some rankings of where some of the Major Players in Investment Banking, Consulting and Big Tech hire from "Target Schools", I'm sure many other industries Target these schools as well. Just want to point out the opportunities Lacrosse can provide for our children. The rankings are primarily in order of "number undergraduate hires" from each school from 2014 - 2019.
Not knocking or touting any schools, just pointing out that Lacrosse can help get our children into many of the feeder schools that many companies recruit from.
Not every kid knows what career path they want to pursue so choosing a school that can open as many doors as possible is very important. In many cases, it will be the school "name recognition and or prestige" that will help get their foot in the door with an interview (lacrosse connections help as well).
Yes, I know there are a lot of great schools that are not on any of the lists....
Investment Banking: at the top firms (2014 - 2019)
1 - Penn 2 - NYU 3 - Michigan 4 - Harvard 5 - Georgetown 6 - Cornell 7 - Yale 8 - Columbia 9 - Notre Dame 10 - Princeton 11 - U of Chicago 12 - Cal - Berkeley 13 - Texas 14 - Duke 15 - Virginia 16 - Dartmouth 17 - BYU 18 - Vanderbilt 19 - Indiana 20 - Uni Southern Cal 21 - Northwestern 22 - Boston College 23 - Brown 25 - North Carolina 26 - Stanford 27 - UCLA 28 - Middlebury 29 - Penn State 30 - Emory
Consulting: at the top firms (2014 - 2020)
1 - Harvard 2 - Penn 3 - Michigan 4 - Yale 5 - Stanford 6 - Duke 7 - Princeton 8 - MIT 9 - Uni Cal Berkeley 10 - Northwestern 11 - Columbia 12 - Texas 13 - Virginia 14 - Dartmouth 15 - Notre Dame 16 - Vanderbilt 16 - Uni Chicago 18 - Brown 19 - Georgetown 20 - Georgia Tech 21 - Western University 22 - Mc Gill University 23 - Washington Uni St. Louis 24 - Queen's University 25 - BYU 26 - Rice 27 - Uni Southern California 28 - Cornell 29 - North Carolina 30 - Uni Illinois
Big Tech
1 University of California, Berkeley 2 Stanford University 3 Carnegie Mellon University 4 University of Southern California 5 The University of Texas at Austin 6 Georgia Institute of Technology 7 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 8 San Jose State University 9 University of California, San Diego 10 Arizona State University 11 University of Michigan 12 University of California, Los Angeles 13 North Carolina State University 14 California Polytechnic State University - San Luis Obispo 15 Cornell University 16 University of Waterloo (Canada) 17 Texas A&M University 18 University of Washington 19 Purdue University 20 Massachusetts Institute of Technology 21 Santa Clara University 22 University of Phoenix 23 University of California, Santa Barbara 24 University of California, Davis 25 Penn State University
Here is some additional food for thought... Link to article at the bottom
These 30 Colleges get students Jobs through great professional partnerships. I think 18 of the these schools have a varsity women's lacrosse program.
1 - Michigan 2 - Penn State 3 - Stanford 4 - Harvard 5 - NYU 6 - Princeton 7 - University of Cal. Berkeley 8 - Penn 9 - MIT 10 - USC (California) 11 - Cornell 12 - Dartmouth 13 - Washington 14 - Texas A&M 15 - Yale 16 - Northeastern 17 - Purdue 18 - Carnegie Mellon University 19 - Georgia Tech 20 - UCLA 21 - Claremont McKenna College 22 - Arizona State 23 - California Institute of Technology 24 - University of Maryland 25 - North Carolina State 26 - University of Cal. San Diego 27 - Florida 28 - University of Cal. Davis 29 - Virginia Tech 30 - Embry Riddle Aeronautical
