Brown University makes list of 50 most powerful alumni networks

BEST COLLEGE Values has named the 50 most powerful alumni networks and Brown University made the list.  / COURTESY BROWN UNIVERSITY
BEST COLLEGE Values has named the 50 most powerful alumni networks and Brown University made the list. / COURTESY BROWN UNIVERSITY

PROVIDENCE – Best College Values has named the 50 most powerful alumni networks, and Brown University made the list.
Best College Values, which bills itself as a college resource, looked at factors including alumni giving, the proportion of employment arranged through career services and employment rate three months after graduation, as well as student usefulness of the alumni network.
Brown University ranked 23rd on the list. Founded in 1764, Ivy League Brown was noted as one of the oldest colleges in the country, featuring 70 different undergraduate programs, 28 master’s programs and 51 doctoral programs, “all of the highest caliber.”
“Brown’s Alumni Association offers an array of career and social services, including college advice for the children of Brown alumni. All alumni are automatically members, connecting graduates throughout their lives and careers,” Best College Values stated.
The website said that 31.1 percent of alumni are in management positions and alumni giving is 37 percent.
Kevin Shull, the article’s author, had this to say regarding the ranking: “Having the support of a powerful alumni network behind you, can help generate countless opportunities for your post-college life. This ranking was a way to provide a unique perspective on the impact that alumni networks can have. We reviewed hundreds of universities and carefully reviewed and weighed their presence.”
Brown was the lowest-ranked Ivy League school on the list. The other seven schools and their rankings:

  • Harvard University, No. 2
  • Columbia University, No. 3
  • Dartmouth College, No. 4
  • Cornell University, No. 7
  • Yale University, No. 8
  • Princeton University, No. 12
  • University of Pennsylvania, No. 13

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