LinkedIn 2025: The top 50 US colleges for career success

LinkedIn’s first-ever Top Colleges ranking identifies the 50 U.S. schools that best set graduates up for long-term success. The ranking is built on exclusive LinkedIn data looking at career outcomes of alumni, such as job placement rates and advancement into senior-level positions, or how many alumni held an internship during their degree or started their own company post-grad.

LinkedIn Top Colleges 2025: The 50 best colleges for long-term career success in the U.S.

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The full list of LinkedIn's Top 50 Colleges for Career Success in 2025 — ranked based on job placement, alumni network strength, internship experience, and long-term career outcomes:

Top 50 U.S. Colleges for Long-Term Career Success

Rank	College Name
1	Princeton University
2	Duke University
3	University of Pennsylvania
4	Massachusetts Institute of Technology
5	Cornell University
6	Harvard University
7	Babson College
8	University of Notre Dame
9	Dartmouth College
10	Stanford University
11	Northwestern University
12	University of Virginia
13	Vanderbilt University
14	Brown University
15	Bentley University
16	Tufts University
17	Lehigh University
18	Columbia University
19	Yale University
20	Carnegie Mellon University
21	Bucknell University
22	Boston College
23	Villanova University
24	University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
25	Wake Forest University
26	University of Chicago
27	University of Southern California
28	Fairfield University
29	Washington and Lee University
30	University of California, Berkeley
31	Rice University
32	Georgetown University
33	Purdue University
34	University of Michigan
35	Miami University
36	Colgate University
37	Southern Methodist University
38	Bryant University
39	Worcester Polytechnic Institute
40	Pennsylvania State University
41	California Institute of Technology
42	Trinity College (Hartford)
43	Boston University
44	University of Richmond
45	Stevens Institute of Technology
46	University of Texas at Austin
47	Indiana University Bloomington
48	Lafayette College
49	Providence College
50	University of Wisconsin–Madison