We recently released our seventh annual list of the 50 best colleges in America.
To create this list, we asked more than 1,000 BI readers to weigh in on which schools best prepare students for success after graduation.
Overall, 11% of survey respondents said they work in the media/marketing/PR industry and their choices for top colleges reflected that.
The top school according to people who work in media, marketing, or PR is Harvard University, which received a little over 61% of the vote. Columbia University came in second, with a 50% vote, and Stanford University took third place with a 48.3% vote.On our main list of the best colleges, Columbia University ranked No. 8, and here it jumped six spots to No. 2.
It seems that media professionals ranked schools with an engineering, mathematics, or computer science focus lower than those with strong social sciences programs, as MIT (the No. 1 school on our main list) dropped to No. 6 here.
Here are the top 25 colleges in the US, according to people who work in media:
1. Harvard University
2. Columbia University
3. Stanford University
4. Yale University
5. Duke University
6. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
7. Princeton University
8. New York University
9. (TIE) Dartmouth College
9. (TIE) Brown University
11. (TIE) Cornell University
11. (TIE) Georgetown University
13. University of California at Berkeley
14. (TIE) University of Pennsylvania
14. (TIE) Boston College
16. Carnegie Mellon University
17. University of Notre Dame
18. Boston University
19. (TIE) University of Chicago
19. (TIE) University of Virginia
19. (TIE) Northwestern University
22. University of Michigan at Ann Arbor
23. Johns Hopkins University
24. United States Navel Academy
25. Tufts University
