Engineer tracked 100k careers PageRank-style to rank universities — Stanford, MIT, Harvard dominate
deedydas · x · 2026-11-08
deedydas ranked universities purely by where 100,000 engineers' careers went over 10 years, PageRank-style: schools rise when graduates keep landing at companies engineers compete hardest to join. Stanford, MIT and Harvard took the top 3 by a surprisingly wide margin (+21.3/+20.9/+19.3 percentile points), with Brown at #6 and Waterloo at #7 — based on 74,304 graduates, 1.89M career-months and 132 schools.
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