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High Marks The results from several national surveys are out, and Harvey Mudd College ranks high
Princeton Review– Top 20 College For the 14th consecutive year, Harvey Mudd College was named by The Princeton Review as one of the nation’s best institutions for undergraduate education. HMC is featured in the 2011 edition of its annual guidebook, “The Best 373 Col- leges.”
When compared to the other 373 colleges in this year’s guidebook, HMC was the only college of math, science and engineering to make the Top 20 lists in two of the key academic categories: “Professors Get High Marks” (ranking 10th), and “Most Accessible Professors” (ranking 14th). HMC also made the Top 20 list in the category of “Students Study the Most” (ranking 3rd). According to a current student quoted in the profile,
HMC’s curriculum “teaches way more math and science than you knew existed, then adds one-third humanities on top of if it” and “prepares undergraduates for both industry and grad school.” Reflecting on the student body, yet another student noted that there has been a “strong effort to recruit talented under-represented groups.” HMC has been extremely successful in recruiting more women, who make up 51% of the class of 2014. On a scale of 60-99, HMC received an overall academic
rating of 99, the highest possible score. Admission received an overall rating of 98, with Financial Aid receiving an overall rating of 97. Other overall ratings were high in the categories of “Quality of Life” (88) and “Green” (80).
PayScale– Highest earners in the nation The highest earning college graduates in the U.S. come from Harvey Mudd College, according to data released in July by PayScale, an online salary information company, in its 2010- 11 College Salary Report. HMC graduates earn on average $126,000 mid-career, beating out MIT, Caltech, Harvard and Princeton. HMC had the highest median salary of all colleges in the
study, as well as the No. 1 ranking in the two categories in which it falls, liberal arts colleges and engineering colleges. Analysts collected data from 999 bachelor’s degree institutions in the last year and tracked median salaries of employees who graduated in the last five years as well as median mid-career salaries of graduates with more than 10 years of experience in a given field. While mid-career salaries
fell 1.5% overall between 2009 and 2010, engineers, scientists and mathematicians continued to earn top salaries.
Forbes–Top 25 In its list of America’s best colleges, Forbes ranked HMC No. 22 out of a list of 610 schools. Forbes’ rankings are based on the quality of the education colleges provide, the experiences of the students and how much they achieve.
New to the HMC Board
The HMC Board of Trustees, made up of 33 individuals who direct the policies and funds of the institution, added several new members recently.
Nabeel Gareeb ’86/87 (engineering) is a dynamic leader who has transformed companies with his expertise. From 2002 to 2008, Gareeb steered the St. Peters, Mo.-based silicon wafer manufacturer MEMC from a modest concern to a $2-billion-per- year semiconductor industry powerhouse. He is the former chief operating officer of International Rectifier Corp.
Jonathan Mersel ’75 (physics) is the outgoing past president of the Alumni Association Board of Governors (AABoG). He is a former chair of the Alumni Fundd Committee and has been a member of AABoG since the 1980s, having held the positions of secretary, treasurer, vice president and president. He is a principal engineer at Northrop Grumman Corporation.
Peter Muller is a senior advisor of Morgan Stanley and head of Process Driven Trading, a proprietary trading group which he founded in 1992. He is also co-founder and chairman of the Investment Committee of Chalkstream Capital Group, an investment firm. He serves on the Leadership Council of the Robin Hood Foundation and on the board of Math for America. He graduated with honors with a B.A. in mathematics from Princeton University.
Christopher Seib ’00 (engineering) is the chief technology officer and founder of InstaMed, the industry-leading healthcare payments network and platform. He was previously an executive in Accenture’s Health and Life Sciences practice. He joins the board as one of HMC’s young alumni trustees, a position that carries a three-year term.
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