We know there's a lot of cachet attached to an Ivy League degree. So Princeton and Yale must be where the company scouts pick their freshly minted grads, right?
Actually, many state universities earn the top grades, including the
University of Maryland, College Park , according to a
report in the Wall Street Journal. The school came in No. 8 in its list of 25 top schools that recruiters prefer.
The newspaper teamed up with Seattle's PayScale.com and Boston's Cambria Consulting to survey recruiting executives in nearly 30 industries.
You can see the rankings
here.