Is this useful for determining potential colleges (notable alumni)?

Alumnae? only meaningful in terms of employment stats

I'd be all over what their placement rates are and what services are available to grads in the decade+ post graduation.

It was actually a bit of a joke/not me making one but is this really that important - just shocking to see the picture especially as it was a not flattering one but one from the news. I wouldn't have expected to see the negative alumni.

I know some people think it's really important but it just seems so weird to me.

I went to three places for higher level schooling - one near our house, a small catholic college, which was fine, pretty good educators, no one famous that I ever learned about. That was for one year. I transferred to a major university, also near our house (do you see a pattern?), and was and still am knocked out by all the possibilities of what I could learn there. Probably the later famous people who went or taught there are too many to count. The third one was a community college where I took trigonometry and california government in the summer, to get them over with - also close to our house, also cheap, as was the university back in those years. There are probably famous people who got their AAs from that community college. Of the three places, the university had, and still does, rather famous athletes.

As is obvious, I liked the university for the education, but also the range of people, so amazing to a sheltered girl. I didn't dislike cities as I lived in one, and I've ended up interested in urban design in my working life. I never wanted nor was imposed on with counselling, possibly a mistake, but also a continuing clue to who I am. I had too much damned counselling in high school, thus my experience of being told I had a vocation to join their order of nuns, which I bought for a few months back them. I've been more independent in decision making since all that.

I did sometime later get a good job from looking at the university's job bulletin board, back when I had gone back to school there almost two decades later - being coordinator for an exhibit at a local museum. I've no doubt there has long been some advisory process like what ehBeth talked about, in place there; I never explored that, but having that department be a smart one is important.

So, your daughter is not interested in studying in a big city? along with other things you mentioned about academics and athletics, these are much more important than a list of alums.

No she likes the feel of a smaller school not within a city, but in its own campus. Not a city type - she likes the feel of a small community.

And she wants to be out of state.

No joke this is the picture that came up - what shows up is a box with some basic data about the school (student population, acceptance rate, mascot, and a map of the location and below that is a list of notable alumni with small thumb sized pictures there were several pictures most of which looked like athletes and then this one. Thi pix is the same just cut off more near the neck.



and this is not a school we are considering - not because of this in particular, just doing a search of schools that fit certain things then looking a bit deeper to see if it meets the other stuff we would want.

That's a good match, wanting the community comfort but also wanting to explore.

I wonder if the school realizes this comes up on a search and yes Bill Cosby comes up on Umass Amherst (had to check).

This is near to funny to me, a quick 100, some of whom I've never heard of, but there are some goodies in the list. I didn't check out the other 700.

http://www.ranker.com/list/roger_s-top-800-and-alumni-of-ucla/roger-royce



I'll add this as of interest in this election year, re some education arguments going on. My first year there, the fees were $19., no tuition. Books were expensive even then. By the time I got my BA, the fee was $76.00, no tuition.

What kills me is you do these estimates of what a school will actually cost you. So say you are interested in a school with all tuition and fees totaling 50k with your current financial situation you pay 20k due to financial aid coverage, pretty much what you would pay out of pocket with a public svhool.

Yep placement rates are big. I once scrolled through a site rating major schools that included earnings a year after graduation, but would never find it again.