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Employment Prospects Survey |
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A top 10 program in every sense. Despite its location 2 hours northwest of
Boston, all the important, major, prestigious recruiters go there. The school
doesn't attract as many smaller, non-traditional recruiters, however, as the
larger programs in major metro centers. This is compensated for by an agressive
correspondence opportunity program.
Recruiters highly value Tuck grads - this is the primary driver of the WSJ
rankings, in which Tuck has ranked #1, #1 and #2 in the first three years of
those rankings. It's a prestigious, Ivy League brand. The campus and
infrastructure exude history, prestige and success.
The differentiated parts of Tuck's career planning machine are the career
planning office/staff and the alumni network.
The career planning office is incredibly student-centric (picking up on a theme
here?). Again, career planning staff who don't get it done for students don't
survive. They work incredibly hard, student by student. The directors of career
planning typically are Tuck grads themselves (not the case at most schools and a
big reason why the office gets such points with students). The office also makes
sure recruiters are treated well. As a longtime recruiter of MBAs, I know this
is differentiating. Many other programs treat recruiters as if they were doing
THEM the favor when it's the other way around. This in turn drives much loyalty
of recruiting companies to Tuck - something much appreciated by students,
especially in economic downturns.
And last, any reviewer of Tuck would be incredibly remiss in not calling out the
alumni network. This is absolutely unrivaled. Tuck alums return phone calls of
Tuck students - near every time (I won a bet with an HBS intern on this my summer
between 1st and 2nd year - we each called 10 alums to see who'd get more return
calls. I got 10/10. She scored 4/10.) More importantly, Tuck alums go to bat in
a big way for tuck students and fellow alums. The network is one of the best
things about Tuck - and for beyond Tuck. Intense loyalty and willingness to
help. This is why there are often disproportionately large 'clusters' of Tuck
grads within some companies.
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Dartmouth University (Tuck) Admission & Application Surveys
