
What's interesting about this chart is we can look at not just the average placement, but factor in how much schools suffered during the recession by looking at minimum placement over that time. The theory is that when firms had to cut hiring, they retrenched to their core recruiting schools.
The data shows quite convincingly that Penn should be grouped together with HYSC because of it's high average and tight spread between min/max. Chicago/NYU also have a strong average, but got pounded during the recession. The T8-12 are grouped pretty tightly, though MV had higher spreads than Duke/Northwestern. Cornell has a stronger average than the T8-12, but got absolutely destroyed during the recession. Georgetown never really placed at the same level as the other T14.
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2010 2011 2012 2013 Mean StDev Min Max Ratio
Yale 59.4 66.3 66.7 65.5 64.5 3.4 59.4 66.7 0.11
Harvard 72.8 65.0 71.4 71.4 70.2 3.5 65.0 72.8 0.11
Stanford 81.6 72.9 75.1 77.8 76.9 3.8 72.9 81.6 0.11
Columbia 79.0 69.5 72.0 78.0 74.6 4.6 69.5 79.0 0.12
Chicago 72.3 54.2 70.7 72.6 67.5 8.9 54.2 72.6 0.25
NYU 66.8 54.0 65.1 67.0 63.2 6.2 54.0 67.0 0.19
Penn 69.2 67.1 77.0 69.1 70.6 4.4 67.1 77.0 0.13
Berkeley 58.5 51.3 60.6 55.8 56.5 4.0 51.3 60.6 0.15
Michigan 55.6 44.6 51.8 57.1 52.3 5.6 44.6 57.1 0.22
Virginia 61.2 47.7 62.1 62.9 58.5 7.2 47.7 62.9 0.24
Duke 57.7 56.0 64.0 60.1 59.5 3.5 56.0 64.0 0.13
Northwestern 60.4 61.3 55.6 63.4 60.2 3.3 55.6 63.4 0.12
Cornell 80.7 46.8 64.2 68.4 65.0 14.0 46.8 80.7 0.42
Georgetown 46.4 37.4 42.8 46.5 43.3 4.3 37.4 46.5 0.20