How Much Do Employers Look at College Name and the "RANKINGS?"

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<p>Here is a review of Rivera’s “Ivies, Extracurriculars, and Exclusion: Elite Employers’ Use of Educational Credentials”. The actual paper is behind pay walls.</p>

<p>[How</a> Elite Firms Hire: The Inside Story, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty](<a href=“http://econlog.econlib.org/archives/2011/11/how_elite_firms.html]How”>How Elite Firms Hire: The Inside Story - Econlib)</p>

<p>Remember that this is for elite investment banks, law firms, and management consulting firms, so it may not necessarily apply to other types of employment.</p>

<p>Perhaps noteworthy is that, even within the firms, resume reviewers’ importance of school prestige tends to be based on whether the reviewer attended a high prestige school.</p>