BU Today: BU Makes LinkedIn’s First “Top Colleges” List for Preparing Students for Career Success
Excerpt from BU Today | By: Rich Barlow | August 12, 2025 | Photo: Cydney Scott
The professional networking social media platform LinkedIn knows something about launching careers. Now, in its Top Colleges in the US, the platform’s inaugural compilation of the 50 undergraduate institutions that best prepare students for successful careers, the site is listing Boston University as 43rd on its list.
For its rankings, LinkedIn looked at almost 1,000 regionally accredited four-year undergrad programs “with the goal of identifying the undergraduate programs that best set their alumni up for long-term career success,” according to the platform. Among the top fields with BU alumni, the rankings identified technology and internet companies, higher education, and advertising.
The recognition comes as BU is putting more resources into its University-wide, career-focused programs and tools available to students, including through its Center for Career Development. The center offers coaching, digital tools, employer connections, and signature programs such as the Career Ambassador Program, Yawkey Nonprofit Internship Program, and Professional Clothing Closet, all aimed at helping students not only seek out and find career opportunities, but then enter the interview process brimming with confidence.