Then again most five-year-olds seem smarter than most college students.

I dunno.

They're both larval stages, just different ones.

As far as knowing about the workings of a company, I'd definitely bet on the college student. The observation in my other comment applies to general adults as well.

Ok I'll stop taking the joke too seriously now :P .

College students have spent much longer being indoctrinated that corporations are good, and the bigger the better, than have five-year-olds. In that sense the joke actually was -- at least to some small part -- serious.