The Top 25 Recruiter Picks

From the Wall Street Journal | Sept 13, 2010

Below are the Top 25 schools whose graduates were the top-rated by recruiters.

Under each school you'll see any individual majors where companies also ranked the school, along with other general information about the school's location, application deadlines and student body. Click on each school name to go to the university's website.

Where possible, we've pulled school-related data on number of students, tuition, application deadline, undergraduate enrollment and admissions contact information directly from each institution's website.

In some cases, data was collected via school profiles on collegeboard.com. Logos were requested from the schools.

Penn State, with its main campus located in University Park, Pa., has undergraduates enrolled in more than 160 different majors. It has 20 undergraduate campuses, 10 of which offer University-owned housing. The school is 54% male and 46% female, representing 50 states and 131 countries. The average student/faculty ratio is 17:1.

Upcoming Application Deadline: Nov. 30 
Tuition (2010-2011): In-state $15,250; Out-of-state $27,114 
Undergraduate Enrollment: 38,630 
Admissions Phone: 814-865-5471 
Admissions Email: admissions@psu.edu

This Texas school's main campus is in College Station, about 100 miles northwest of Houston and 100 miles northeast of Austin. The school has 10 individual colleges and boasts more than 800 student organizations ranging from athletics and recreation to professional and community service.

Upcoming Application Deadline: Jan. 15; Dec. 1 (priority) 
Tuition (2010-2011): In-state $8,387; Out-of-state $22,817 
Undergraduate Enrollment: 38,810 
Admissions Phone: 979-845-3741 
Admissions Email:admissions@tamu.edu

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, centrally located between Chicago, Indianapolis and St. Louis, has more than 150 majors and 1,000 student organizations. Students come from all 50 states and 118 countries. The school is 54% male and 46% female.

Upcoming Application Deadline: Jan. 2 
Tuition (2010-2011): In-state $13,658-$18,386; Out-of-state $27,800-$32,528 
Undergraduate Enrollment: 31,209 
Admissions Phone: 217-333-0302 
Admissions Email:ugradadmissions@uiuc.edu

More than half of this Indiana university's students are from the state (62%) with 38% coming from elsewhere. Its West Lafayette campus offers more than 200 majors for undergraduates along with 18 intercollegiate sports teams and more than 850 student organizations.

Upcoming Application Deadline: Nov. 15, other programs March 1 
Tuition (2010-2011): In-state $9,070-$10,408; Out-of-state $26,622-$27,960 
Undergraduate Enrollment: 29,851 
Admissions Phone: 765-494-1776 
Admissions Email:admissions@purdue.edu

Arizona State University is situated less than 15 miles from Phoenix, with four campuses in the metro Phoenix area, including an Arizona State air field for aviation students. The university offers 250 majors to its undergraduates -- who are 71% in-state. There are 52% women compared to 48% men, and more than 30% of freshmen graduate in the top 10% of their high school class.

Upcoming Application Deadline: Feb.1 
Tuition (2010-2011): In-state $8,132; Out-of-state $20,296 
Undergraduate Enrollment: 54,277 
Admissions Phone: 480-965-7788 
Admissions Email: ugrading@asu.edu

This Michigan school's campus is in Ann Arbor offers more than 200 undergraduate degree programs and several thousand undergraduate research opportunities. There are more than 150 first-year seminars, with no more than 15-18 students each. The university boasts the most living alumni in the world: more than 400,000.

Upcoming Application Deadline: Nov. 1 (early); Feb. 1 (regular)

Tuition (2010-2011): In-state: $11,837, Out-of-state: $36,001

Undergraduate Enrollment: 26,208

Admissions Phone: 734-764-7433

Admissions Email: n/a

Georgia Institute of Technology has nine schools and two outreach campuses -- one in Savannah and the other in Metz, France. The student body is 64% male. More than 60% of the university's students come from Georgia, with roughly 30% coming from out-of-state; another 10% are international students.

Upcoming Application Deadline: Oct. 1 (early); Jan. 15 (regular) 
Tuition (2010-2011): In-state $8,716; Out-of-state $26,926 
Undergraduate Enrollment: 13,515 
Admissions Phone: 404-894-4154 
Admissions Email:admission@gatech.edu

This Maryland school's campus, stretching 1,250 acres, is about 10 miles from Washington D.C. It enrolls 67% in-state students; the student body is made up of 47% women. There are 13 colleges and schools within the university, which offers 127 undergraduate majors.