Schools Ranked by Job Placement Rate

Finding gainful employment upon completing a degree program can be difficult, which is why we consider each school’s job placement rate as a measure of its merits. Colleges with a higher job placement rate have more graduates finding jobs, which can indicate that the school has good connections with employers and recruiters, and/or offers other valuable career services like interview tutorials, resume building workshops, and career counselors. We gathered this data from each school’s official website.

Not every school had the job placement rate data available on their websites. We did not, however, want to penalize those colleges without data. To that end, we simply excluded those schools from the rankings in this category.

Rank School FT to PT
Faculty Ratio		 Institution
Fin. Aid Rate		 Acceptance Rate Retention Rate Graduation Rate Accred.
Years		 Default
Rate		 Job Place. Rate  
1 Antonelli College- Cincinnati 0.28 to 1 0% N/A 26% 48% 37 35% 100%  
1 Ashland University-Ohio 0.90 to 1 96% 72% 72% 61% 74 5% 100%  
1 California University of Pennsylvania 2.03 to 1 4% 60% 73% 49% 61 7% 100%  
1 Cayuga County Community College 0.28 to 1 7% N/A N/A 28% 47 14% 100%  
1 Central Washington University 2.64 to 1 59% 78% 78% 56% 94 5% 100%  
1 Chabot College 0.69 to 1 0% N/A 72% 24% 49 27% 100%  
1 City College--Fort Lauderdale 0.10 to 1 0% 100% N/A 58% 26 28% 100%  
1 Clark State Community College 0.15 to 1 8% N/A 47% 9% 38 19% 100%  
1 Clayton State University 1.44 to 1 5% 39% 67% 26% 41 12% 100%  
1 East Carolina University 4.98 to 1 39% 70% 81% 59% 85 3% 100%  
1 Eastern Kentucky University 1.56 to 1 27% 66% 66% 37% 84 12% 100%  
1 Jacksonville State University 1.97 to 1 45% 84% 68% 32% 77 13% 100%  
13 Baker College of Flint 0.12 to 1 65% N/A 48% 11% 35 19% 97%  
13 Kaplan University-Maine Campus 0.22 to 1 42% N/A N/A 18% 14 N/A 97%  
15 Michigan State University 6.69 to 1 39% 73% 91% 77% 97 4% 96%  
15 Springfield College in Illinois to 1 N/A N/A N/A 41% 79 21% 96%  
17 Boise State University 1.23 to 1 25% 85% 69% 31% 71 8% 95%  
17 Bryant and Stratton College-Buffalo Campus 0.30 to 1 30% 100% N/A 13% 10 23% 95%  
17 Clarion University of Pennsylvania 2.63 to 1 7% 79% 70% 49% 64 7% 95%  
17 Vincennes University 0.27 to 1 13% N/A 74% 23% 54 22% 95%  
21 Glendale Community College 0.46 to 1 0% N/A N/A 28% 60 15% 94%  
22 Embry Riddle Aeronautical University-Prescott 2.19 to 1 92% 82% 78% 57% N/A 6% 91%  
23 Alexandria Technical & Community College 0.86 to 1 25% N/A 69% 56% 32 10% 90%  
23 Anamarc College-El Paso 0.32 to 1 0% N/A 84% 84% 9 29% 90%  
23 Miami Dade College 0.19 to 1 29% N/A N/A 25% 47 19% 90%  
23 Seattle Pacific University 1.25 to 1 96% 70% 85% 74% 79 2% 90%  
27 Waldorf College 15.67 to 1 100% 49% 37% 45% 64 7% 87%  
28 Albany State University 1.28 to 1 7% 55% 65% 41% 61 12% 85%  
28 Columbia College 0.08 to 1 21% N/A 57% 40% 94 12% 85%  
30 Champlain College 0.47 to 1 84% 85% 76% 62% 40 3% 83%  
31 DePaul University 1.00 to 1 88% 64% 86% 66% 87 4% 81%  
32 Jackson State University 2.72 to 1 41% 31% 73% 40% 64 16% 70%  
33 Chatham University 0.46 to 1 100% 62% 70% 60% 88 3% 68%  
34 Chamberlain College of Nursing - Missouri 0.24 to 1 19% 89% 69% 75% N/A N/A 65%  
35 Adelphi University 0.48 to 1 90% 69% 81% 66% 91 5% 50%  
36 Central Michigan University 1.92 to 1 64% 68% 76% 54% 97 4% 35%  
37 Abilene Christian University 8.48 to 1 94% 64% 75% 60% 41 10% 18%  
38 Kirtland Community College 0.31 to 1 16% N/A 51% 18% 36 21% 0%  

Methodology

For each college, we gathered data for nine different metrics: the number of full-time faculty per part-time faculty member; institutional financial aid, acceptance, retention, graduation, job placement, and default rates; years accredited; and undergraduate tuition. Learn more