Okay, one more list to show you how this looks at 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 farther with this list and include only students who finished their undergraduate studies in the year 2015–which is the most recent year to have a significant number due to also having had to complete law school–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 with undergraduate degrees received in 2015 at Skadden Arps (link to Skadden Arps)–one of the most highly ranked law firms in the country on numerous measures by US News–did their undergraduate work. Numbers in parentheses are for those colleges that have more than one associate on the list.
Skadden Arps Associates (graduated 2015)
Amherst College
Boston College
UC Irvine
Catholic U
Columbia U (2)
Dartmouth
DePaul U
Florida State
Georgetown U
The King’s College
U Maryland College Park
U Miami
U New Haven
U North Carolina Wilmington
Ohio State
Purdue
St. Francis U
Texas A+M
U Utah
U Virginia
U Arizona
Brigham Young U
UC Los Angeles (2)
U Colorado
Cornell (4)
U Denver
East Carolina U
Franklin and Marshall College
U Georgia
Lehigh U
U Massachusetts
U Michigan (2)
New York U
Notre Dame (2)
U Pennsylvania
U Rochester
Spring Arbor U
Tulane U (2)
Vanderbilt (2)
Washington and Lee U
Yale
Source: skadden.com