Five Boston schools that will help you prepare for the future
From publishing test prep tomes that will help students ace standardized tests to releasing rankings of colleges with the best gyms, dining hall food, and, of course, parties, many of The Princeton Review’s 150 print and digital books focus on preparing students for college.
On Tuesday, the organization added another title to its collection. It released a new book called Colleges that Create Futures: 50 Schools That Launch Careers By Going Beyond the Classroom, the title of which is pretty self-explanatory. Unlike many of the other Princeton Review books, this one focuses on what schools do to help students prepare the enter the “real world,’’ or their future careers.
Five Boston area schools—Babson College, Northeastern University, MIT, Smith College and the Worcester Polytechnic Institute—made the list, which features colleges in alphabetical, as opposed to ranked order.
The book was developed in part due to a survey question asked of more than 50,000 college applicants and their parents. The most common answer to the question “What do you consider the biggest benefit of earning a college degree?,’’ was “a potentially better job and higher income.’’
And, with so much attention on crippling student loan debt and a job market that leaves students unemployed (or underemployed), the company said many students want to make sure the college that they attend will set them up for future success in their careers.
The 50 colleges in the new book all have outstanding academics, but, as the book’s author Robert Franek said, they put the “hire’’ in higher education. The Princeton Review pointed out that many of the schools, like Northeastern, have co-op, internship or study abroad programs that lead to jobs for their students. At Northeastern, for example, 95 percent of students participate in a co-op program, and 90 percent of students graduate with full-time jobs or plans to go to grad school.
It’s just an added bonus that Northeastern is also on the Princeton Review’s “College City Gets High Marks’’ list.
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