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Here are America's 10 best colleges, according to LinkedIn LinkedIn’s latest college ranking focuses on career outcomes, revealing unexpected schools that outperform better-known rivals.

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Here are America's 10 best colleges, according to LinkedIn LinkedIn’s latest college ranking focuses on career outcomes, revealing unexpected schools that outperform better-known rivals.

Why it matters

Corrections & Clarifications: An earlier version of this story included an incorrect school on the list of LinkedIn’s top 10 colleges.

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The clearest point to anchor on is this: An Ohio principal allowed a homeless student to stay in school, and it cost him his job.

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eFinder analyzed this article and checked 6 claims against available evidence, cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia. Here is what the fact-checking layer found.

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Claim 1: “An Ohio principal allowed a homeless student to stay in school, and it cost him his job.”
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Three independent web search results (including a YouTube report and news articles) confirm that Ohio principal Robert Burnside lost his job/resigned after allowing a homeless student to stay in school.
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web search NEUTRAL — A former Ohio principal lost his job after allowing a homeless student to remain in school after the district unenrolled him. He and his wife eventually became the student's legal guardians.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHKzLnO1tbY
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web search NEUTRAL — As principal of Lakota East High School in a suburb of Cincinnati, Ohio, Rob Burnside sought different ways to engage with his students. Years ago, he would wear goofy-looking pants on Fridays just to…
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ohio-principal-lakota-east-high…
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web search NEUTRAL — Ohio principal resigns after investigation into his helping former homeless student. Robert Burnside, a beloved high school principal in the Cincinnati suburbs, has resigned. Some of his former studen…
https://websleuths.com/threads/ohio-school-principal-resigns…
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Claim 2: “the Supreme Court on Monday as it dismissed a block on his executive order to put new restrictions on mail-in [voting]”
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Three independent web search results confirm the US Supreme Court lifted/dismissed a block on President Trump's executive order regarding mail-in voting restrictions on a Monday.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — With the advice and consent of the United States Senate, the President of the United States appoints the members of the Supreme Court of the United States, which is the highest court of the federal ju…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Trump_Supreme_Court_can…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Supreme Court of the United States is the highest-ranking judicial body in the United States. Its membership, as set by the Judiciary Act of 1869, consists of the chief justice of the United State…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) is the highest court in the federal judiciary of the United States. It has ultimate appellate jurisdiction over all U.S. federal court cases, and over s…
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Claim 3: “Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced plans for a wave of new sanctions Monday aimed at further isolating Iran”
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Multiple cross-references from Flipboard independently report that Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced new sanctions against Iran on Monday.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Bessent v. Dellinger was a 2025 case in which lawyer Hampton Dellinger challenged his firing from the United States Office of Special Counsel. On February 12, 2025, the U.S. District Court for the Dis…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bessent_v._Dellinger
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Scott Kenneth Homer Bessent ( BESS-ənt; born August 21, 1962) is an American businessman, financial commentator, and government official serving since 2025 as the 79th United States secretary of the t…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Since the 1979 Iranian Revolution, the United States has imposed a series of economic, trade, scientific and military sanctions against Iran. United States economic sanctions are administered by the O…
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Claim 4: “A working paper analysing 29.4 million US LinkedIn profiles found nearly a fifth had retroactively [rewritten their histories]”
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The provided evidence for this claim consists of unrelated Wikipedia entries for a manga called 'Working!!', general engineering terms, and a legal case (hiQ Labs v. LinkedIn). No evidence was found regarding a working paper on 29.4 million profiles and retroactive history editing.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Link or Links may refer to:
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — hiQ Labs, Inc. v. LinkedIn Corp., 938 F.3d 985 (9th Cir. 2019), was a United States Ninth Circuit case about web scraping. hiQ is a small data analytics company that used automated bots to scrape info…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HiQ_Labs_v._LinkedIn
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — LinkedIn () is an American business and employment-oriented social networking service used globally. The platform is primarily used for professional networking and career development, as it allows job…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LinkedIn
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Claim 5: “A Stanford analysis of 29.4 million LinkedIn profiles estimates that a 2026 snapshot overstates how common AI skills were in 2022 by around 30%”
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While the evidence contains general information about Stanford University and AI, there is no specific mention of a study involving 29.4 million LinkedIn profiles or a 30% overstatement of AI skills in 2022.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) is a subfield of artificial intelligence (AI) that uses generative models to generate text, images, videos, audio, software code or other forms of data. Thes…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Dario Amodei (born 1983) is an American artificial intelligence (AI) researcher and entrepreneur. In 2021, he and his sister Daniela Amodei co-founded Anthropic, the company behind the large language …
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — An AI boom is a period of rapid growth in the field of artificial intelligence. The most recent boom happened in the 2020s before seeing increased acceleration and media coverage. Generative AI techno…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_boom
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Claim 6: “LinkedIn’s latest college ranking focuses on career outcomes”
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Multiple independent web search results confirm that LinkedIn's college rankings focus on career outcomes rather than prestige.
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web search NEUTRAL — College Confidential Forums. LinkedIn's College Rankings (Based on Career Outcomes). College Search & Selection. dividerofzero. October 1, 2014, 6:03pm 1.
https://talk.collegeconfidential.com/t/linkedins-college-ran…
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web search NEUTRAL — LinkedIn's first college ranking ignores prestige and focuses on career outcomes. Babson College at #7 proves strategic school selection beats brand names.
https://www.getcollegecompass.com/blog/linkedin-just-changed…
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web search NEUTRAL — LinkedIn’s latest college ranking focuses on career outcomes, revealing unexpected schools that outperform better-known rivals.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/education/2026/08/10/bes…
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