College Choice Doesn't Matter Much for Employment

College Search & Selection
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<p>Recent article by Mitchell D. Weiss gives more evidence that obsession with college prestige is misguided:</p>

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According to a recent survey that was conducted by Gallup and the Lumina Foundation, when it comes to finding well-paying employment, 80% of Americans said that school choice is either very (30%) or somewhat (50%) important.</p>

<p>Fortunately, however, those who sign payroll checks don’t share that opinion.</p>

<p>Of the 623 business leaders who were also surveyed, only 9% responded that where a job candidate earns his or her degree is very important, and 37% believe it is somewhat so.

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<p><a href="http://blog.credit.com/2014/03/who-cares-where-you-went-to-college-78056/"&gt;http://blog.credit.com/2014/03/who-cares-where-you-went-to-college-78056/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>Kids should be finding affordable "fit" schools where they will have interesting experiences, learn, and grow. We need to drop the brand name obsession and completely rethink why our kids are going to college. </p>

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<p>So slightly less than half of all surveyed employers think school choice is somewhat important?</p>