A recent Wall Street Journal report on "Paths to Professions" ranked Cal Poly business graduates on par with Stanford, Harvard, Penn State and Berkeley, and ranked Poly’s engineering graduates on top of UCLA, Rensselaer and Carnegie Mellon graduates.

In the report's "Rankings by Major" breakout, Cal Poly was named No. 22 of the "Top 25" private and public universities for producing business/economics graduates in the nation. Cal Poly was named No. 18 of the "Top 25" best engineering graduate producers in the nation.

These were rankings of all universities in the nation, not just public ones.