How A For-Profit College Created Fake Jobs To Get Taxpayer Money

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9. My daughter is going off to college next year

We are very informed consumers who have only visited two campuses so far (two of our three state universities - the third - our local one - is off the table because it does not offer engineering). Two things the engineering departments constantly emphasized - placement rates (along with those services) and semesters to graduation. When I went off to college I was the first generation and, while I made mistakes along the way, I was fortunate enough to end up at a great university (Purdue). Your major and your university (both by reputation and what they teach you) are the two largest drivers for assessing employment opportunities. It is about probabilities not certainties as you characterize it. It is ironic that you cite Harvard University - my brother in law received his Doctorate in Biochemistry from there and he did have some employment difficulties early in his career (as did I with a B.S. and M.S. in Engineering and an MBA). My brother in law actually received the highest award for his dissertation, and he still could not find placement at a larger tenure track university (he is a researcher in private industry but he went through two employers before that and two post-docs).