Oct 06, 2014 03:47 PM EDT By Russell Westerholm, UniversityHerald Reporter

LinkedIn was designed to help people find jobs and the professional networking site has now released college rankings based on which institutions' graduates find work.

According to the Hechinger Report, LinkedIn's college rankings go beyond finding employed graduates, but rather those who have found "desirable" jobs. The website had to rely on surveys rather than job data, since it is hard to quantify what makes a "quality" job.

For their rankings, LinkedIn also factored in graduates with jobs at reputable companies with low turnover rates.

"What we're doing is we're giving them access to information that they haven't had from other places before," Crystal Braswell, a company spokeswoman, told the Hechinger Report.

LinkedIn's rankings are divided into various professional fields. They are as follows: accounting, design, finance, investment bankers, marketing, media, software developers and software developers at startups.

"These are really the best schools at launching graduates into not just any jobs, but desirable jobs," Itamar Orgad, the LinkedIn college rankings chief, told the Hechinger Report. "You can assume that this correlates to things like salaries and not just being a better professional, but how to have a better life. We know we're literally the only destination that has this information."

The report does not take salary into account, as Orgad implied, but rather let the quality of the job and the employer speak for itself. In other words, desirable jobs are desirable in part because they pay well.

LinkedIn designed an algorithm to help generate the rankings and one method tracked which companies were retaining their entry-level employees, promoting from within. Another method tracked post-grads that left his or her position at one company in a certain field for another company; the latter was assumed to be of better "quality."

"The amount of insight they have about what their graduates do post-graduation is really limited," Orgad said. "I'll be happy if this makes everyone much more motivated to make sure that more students find jobs they're happy with."

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