Okay, one more list to show you how this looks at Skadden Arps, a law firm ranked very highly in numerous specialties by US News.
Some of you may have been thinking while looking at the previous three lists that most of these employees have been out of college for a decade or more, and that it’s probably gotten more competitive in recent years with all the focus on rankings and such. So let’s go one step further with this list and include only students who finished their undergraduate studies in the year 2020 in order to show that the most recent graduates are also being hired from a wide variety of colleges. Here’s where all of the associates at Skadden Arps (link to Skadden Arps)–one of the most highly ranked law firms in the country on numerous measures by US News–with undergraduate degrees received in 2020 did their undergraduate work. FYI, Skadden starts new associates at $225k/year. Numbers in parentheses are for those colleges that have more than one associate on the list.
Skadden Arps Associates (graduated 2017)
UC Berkeley (3)
U Virginia (2)
Villanova (2)
U Southern California (2)
Knox College
U South Dakota
UC Los Angeles
College of New Jersey
Rhodes College
U Delaware
Hamilton College
Wake Forest
Columbia
U Minnesota
Case Western
Georgia Tech
George Washington
Georgetown (3)
Northwestern (2)
Fordham (2)
Indiana U (2)
Creighton U
Miami U of Ohio
U Miami
Tulane
Emory U
Boston College
New York U
Samford U
Princeton
Vanderbilt
Syracuse
Ohio State
U Chicago
Source: skadden.com
(last updated 4/12/2021)