{"id":260371,"date":"2026-08-06T14:44:07","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T14:44:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/260371\/"},"modified":"2026-08-06T14:44:07","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T14:44:07","slug":"penn-places-sixth-in-linkedin-college-rankings-based-on-graduate-career-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/260371\/","title":{"rendered":"Penn Places Sixth in LinkedIn College Rankings Based on Graduate Career Success"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/957benfm.com\/tag\/university of penn\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">University of Pennsylvania<\/a> has been ranked sixth nationally in LinkedIn&#8217;s Top Colleges 2026 list. This annual ranking of undergraduate institutions is based on graduates&#8217; long-term career outcomes.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Released on Tuesday, Aug. 4, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/pulse\/linkedin-top-colleges-2026-50-best-long-term-career-success-6gyze\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">LinkedIn ranking<\/a> selects the 50 colleges in the United States that LinkedIn believes best prepare students for postgraduate success based on data from millions of LinkedIn users.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMost college rankings value prestige, whereas LinkedIn&#8217;s Top Colleges list is 100% backed by LinkedIn data looking at career outcomes,\u201d said LinkedIn News senior editor Gianna Prudente in a statement shared with The Daily Pennsylvanian.\u00a0\u201cThe rankings are really a starting point. It&#8217;s an opportunity for high school students and recent grads to identify what matters most for them and find the school that matches that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Notable skills identified on Penn graduates&#8217; LinkedIn profiles include development tools, scientific computing, and computer-aided design, according to the rankings.<\/p>\n<p>Penn has been a consistent top-10 presence since the 2025 rankings. This year, Penn ranked just behind Princeton University, Duke University, Harvard University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Dartmouth College.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The University of Pennsylvania has been ranked sixth nationally in LinkedIn&#8217;s Top Colleges 2026 list. This annual ranking&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":260372,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[28,69,71,70,62230],"class_list":["post-260371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-pennsylvania","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-university-of-penn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=260371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260371\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/260372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=260371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=260371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=260371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}