<p>when a company interviews you for an engineering position, are you usually given an option(s) of where you would like to live? i'm considering going to college in the east, but would prefer to return to tx after graduation. i dont know if you are given more flexibility if you are a highly recruited job candidate, or if your skills/prestige of degree/school has any effect on location options</p>
<p>Most positions you would apply directly for will list the location, requirements, etc. Only if a larger company is doing more general interviews will you not know the location, and you could probably request Texas when you apply. A lot of people search for jobs by location, so on many of the search engines out there that will be one of the main choices. You shouldn't have a problem searching for Texas.</p>
<p>I second that. Graduates are increasingly turning to sites such as monster to post resume and wait for offers and/or look for entry level jobs. Where you go to school would not have a direct affect on where your job location would be, you can pretty much find jobs in any area. Texas is pretty big you shouldn't have a problem.</p>
<p>At my son's college career fair he applied to companies that were located (or had offices in) where he would like to live. One big company offered him an interview in a state he was not interested in and he turned that down. But the rest were all in the areas he wanted to be.</p>