A new survey shows that that elite colleges or schools do not make graduates happy.
Gallup and Purdue University conducted a poll on 30,000 American graduates. They found that person's experience at the university rather than the status of the institute played an important part in shaping their work life and well-being after graduating.
The poll also found that graduate-level workplace involvement was similar irrespective of the type of institution a person attended. Almost two-fifths of those surveyed said they were satisfactorily engaged in their jobs.
Surveyors asked graduate participants questions tailored to understand how 'great their jobs were' bases on involvement in their jobs, or if they were having 'great lives, based on their health and overall income.
Participants who said they had professors who cared about them as an individual and encouraged them to chase their dreams had twice more chances to be engaged at work than those who did not. However, just 14 percent of those surveyed 'strongly agreed' that their teachers met this criterion.
Moreover, a third of graduates said their university groomed them for life outside the college. But, only 3 percent said to have all six of the positive university experiences, from great teaching to extra-curricular activities and internships, while studying there.
Almost 50 per cent said they were not involved completely whereas the rest 12 percent were actively detached. The findings were true for the students who passed out from the Top 100-ranked schools in US News & World Report as graduates from one of the lower 100 institutions, states The Telegraph.
