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 |
