<p>when going into business? computer science? engineering?</p>
<p>I'm just curious, I can go to a really cheap but awesome state school UT Austin or a really expensive one like USC/NYU/Harvard and I'm pretty sure I'm going into business. (I still have a year in high school to decide so no rush).</p>
<p>Mainly for business/finance, is there a significant advantage for choosing the more expensive schools like USC over UT?</p>
<p>UT IS a name college. if ur in, ur good.</p>
<p>UT is a great school! You won't have problems with name recognition going there. If it was between UT, NYU, and USC, I'd say go with whatever's cheapest/you like the most. Harvard is...Harvard. But you already know that.</p>
<p>For business yes, for engineering and CS no. While school matters a lot for business, USC would not give you a big advantage over UT except in Southern California. Harvard and the ivies and other top schools would. NYU Stern yes, but not like an ivy.</p>
<p>So... the overall consensus is that USC biz is not that much better than UT, or that it isn't worth it to go there?</p>
<p>Unless you want to live in southern California where the USC network reigns supreme, go to UT.</p>
<p>UT-Austin is a big name school in its own right. It is an excellent, top 10 Public university. It is on par with other top-ranked public universities such as Illinois, UCLA, UNC and Wisconsin and only slightly weaker than the likes of Cal, Michigan and UVa. </p>
<p>As far as I am concerned, and this is my personal opinion, UT-Austin also compares nicely to top private schools such as Boston College, Emory, NYU, Tufts, USC, Vanderbilt etc.... It is not quite on par with the Ivies and their peers (Chicago, Duke, Georgetown, Johns Hopkins, Northwestern, Notre Dame and Rice), but it is certainly not far behind.</p>
<p>The most important thing is how much you learn, and you can learn a lot at every college. But name does matter somewhat. You become a reflection of the prestige of your school. Prestige generally stems from quality.</p>
<p>However, there is not a huge difference in prestige between UT Austin and USC or NYU. There is a big difference at Harvard. If you get into Harvard for business, go there.</p>
<p>^^^ More specifically, I think you tend to become a reflection of the peer group at your school, which is a large part of what we perceive as quality.</p>