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Questions to Ask a Career Services Office

on February 5, 2013 in Academic quality, Academics, Careers

Today I’m sharing a guest post from Stuart Nachbar, a former executive at a major education software company, who is the creator of a valuable website called EducatedQuest.com. On this website, you’ll find a growing number of in-depth profiles of state universities that Nachbar writes after campus visits that includes lengthy interviews. I have never [...]

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10 Questions to Ask a School about Career Services and Jobs

on November 19, 2012 in Academic majors, Academic quality, Academics, Campus life, Careers, College Life

Parents and teenagers are understandably interested in colleges and universities that prepare students for eventual jobs. What schools, they wonder, will give their grads an advantage in the job world? It’s a tough question to answer because the statistics that schools share about their graduates’ success in finding jobs are often wrong. To learn more [...]

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6 Tips for Selecting a School for Art Majors

on October 1, 2012 in Academic majors, Academic quality, Academics, Admissions, Applying, Careers

I want to major in art. This is the college major that perhaps more than any other strikes fear in the hearts of parents, who worry that an art degree will condemn their children to a life eating Cheerio’s for dinner and driving old subcompacts with bald tires. The truth is there are a myriad [...]

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Tracking What a College’s Grads Really Make

on June 21, 2012 in Academic quality, Academics, Careers

I’ve been devoting this week’s posts to college accountability. Are colleges and universities doing what we are paying them to do:  educating our children and preparing them for the working world? In most cases we don’t know.  If you missed my two previous posts, here they are: Sharing a College’s Return on Investment College + [...]

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Sharing a College’s Return on Investment

on June 19, 2012 in Academic majors, Academic quality, Academics, Careers

In my last post I discussed a serious dilemma facing families searching for colleges. When we send our teenagers off to college, we expect that our children will return to us smarter, wiser and employable. But it’s nearly impossible to determine which schools are in the best position to help make this happen. Here is [...]

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Three Degrees of College Prestige

on June 15, 2012 in Academic quality, Academics, Careers, College rankings, Evaluating Schools, Graduate degrees, Research

Today I am happy to share with you a thoughtful post that David Montesano, one of my favorite independent college college consultants, wrote about college rankings. Montesano is the owner of College Match Educational Consultants, which has offices in the San Francisco Bay area, Seattle and elsewhere. Three Degrees of College Prestige In an era [...]

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