Rich alumni may end up funding laboratories for their old departments, rather than libraries for their old colleges.
McDonald's has paid for almost 100 people to get degrees from Manchester Metropolitan University.The company professes to be unfazed by the fact that many alumni will end up working elsewhere.
Ratings are based on the number of alumni who end up in Who's Who in America, the amount of students and professors receiving awards and the number of students who graduate in debt (among other less tangible stats).
The investment bank is not the biggest in the world (that title belongs to JP Morgan Chase based on their respective stock market values) but Goldman consistently tops the global league table for the number of mergers and acquisitions it has worked on, and its alumni have ended up in some of the most powerful jobs in the world.
Myers was famous for running his kitchens like boot camps, but his food was polished, and his alumni have ended up running places as varied as Sotto, Alimento, Hinoki and the Bird, and the butcher shop McCall's, all kitchens noted for their rigor and precision.
There is nothing bigger than what Troy alumni did last season: Defensive end Osi Umenyiora and kicker Lawrence Tynes shined for the Giants.
In the end, alumni and students raised more than half a million dollars and the archdiocese and school contributed $250,000 to keep Hudson Catholic open for at least one more year.
Studies like these ignore the fact that a significant number of students at newer universities come from socially disadvantaged backgrounds, and the very fact of taking part in higher education will reduce these disadvantages, even if their alumni don't end up as professors of philosophy within six months of graduating.
That may be why many PayPal alumni tend to end up working with each other at their new ventures most companies founded by ex-PayPal employees feature at least two high-level PayPal vets.
These informal relationships were typically nurtured through the initiative of US-based principal investigators and highly motivated FIC alumni, who often ended up in senior leadership positions at their home institutions.
