subject: Studying in the best college opens up more job avenues [print this page] Studying in the best college opens up more job avenues
It is in the nature of man that he wants best of everything in life. Then why not the best college when it comes to studying for a graduate degree. After all degree from a reputed college can open up innumerable job avenues for you which is not the case with studying in just any other college. But how will you find out what you are looking for. And even if a few colleges did meet your expectations in regard to college infrastructure etc how will you determine which one is the best. These are some dilemmas that every student like you face initially after the high school exams gets over. When facing difficulty in making a decision rely on these two.
Firstly it is college rankings which you must use as a gauging tool to find out what is the rank-wise standing of your prospective college. It may happen that the college you are interested in have all the physical infrastructures like a magnificent building etc, but it may still lack on other fronts. Rankings help you to find out the truth. As these are prepared by experts chosen from diverse fields like academics, statistics, education planners, government officials and social luminaries; rankings goes a long way in informing aspiring students on the exact status of a college. You will come across rankings in different sources, right from the website guides dedicated on profiling various colleges to newspapers and college magazines.
Secondly it is college ratings, though the two terms are incidentally used to measure the same aspects. Ratings and rankings are accredited to various colleges based on some specific parameters. How well a college fares on these scales determines its respective status. For example, a college is judged on the basis of its infrastructures, the faculty, college library, the majors offered, sports culture, co-curricular history and the social behavior of the students on the campus. The academic brilliance of the college is also taken note of. Besides whether it is free from drug and other kind of abuses is a major factor in reckoning. The surveys carried out are on year to year basis making the grading up-to-date.
