So many people don't check those things before going to college that it effectively doesn't matter. The best colleges will get more applicants than they can handle, and everyone who is rejected will go to other colleges. You'd have to be really, really bad to get a reputation for failing your students.
And the institution doesn't care, but many of the teachers do care, so they do what they can to help the students.
Also, they cook the books. I went to a college that supposedly had a high 90% placement rate. But what they actually counted is if the person had a job soon after they graduated, no matter what field it was in. Because most people who had to pay those tuition prices needed to be earning money to pay them back already, they took whatever job they could.
I called them on it and they claimed that I was refusing to follow their advice and that's why I couldn't get a job in the industry. In reality, they were just horrifically bad at job searches. The interviews they sent me to were for horrible companies, and even then I didn't even get a second interview.
They claimed it was because I refused to follow their advice of hand-writing a note to give to the secretary to give to give to the interviewer. I informed them that seeing my handwriting was a massive turn-off, but that continued to be the career counselor's excuse as to why I couldn't get a job.
My dad ended up going in and yelling at both the counselor and the head of the head of the school, which changed their attitude considerably. They were still completely ineffectual, though.
And the institution doesn't care, but many of the teachers do care, so they do what they can to help the students.
Also, they cook the books. I went to a college that supposedly had a high 90% placement rate. But what they actually counted is if the person had a job soon after they graduated, no matter what field it was in. Because most people who had to pay those tuition prices needed to be earning money to pay them back already, they took whatever job they could.
I called them on it and they claimed that I was refusing to follow their advice and that's why I couldn't get a job in the industry. In reality, they were just horrifically bad at job searches. The interviews they sent me to were for horrible companies, and even then I didn't even get a second interview.
They claimed it was because I refused to follow their advice of hand-writing a note to give to the secretary to give to give to the interviewer. I informed them that seeing my handwriting was a massive turn-off, but that continued to be the career counselor's excuse as to why I couldn't get a job.
My dad ended up going in and yelling at both the counselor and the head of the head of the school, which changed their attitude considerably. They were still completely ineffectual, though.