How much does school matter to employers?

College Majors Business Major
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<p>I go to a small public university, IU Southeast, 5 miles from Louisville. We had a job fair last week that I couldn't make since I had a math test at the exact same time. I looked at the list of employers and it wasn't that long. I looked at the University of Louisville's job fair list of employers and I couldn't even keep count, same was true for IU Bloomington's. It seems to me with that pattern, employers mostly just recruit from big schools and think less of the smaller ones. Would you say this is accurate or do they go to the big schools because of the bigger talent pool or combination of both?</p>

<p>I am aware of Bloomington's Kelley School of Business prestige, which IUS's business school doesn't really have, but I've been told the classes are basically the same.</p>

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<p>I think your own investigation clearly answered the question.</p>

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<p>Between schools like:</p>

<p>UCLA, UC Berkeley, Notre Dame, Washington U at St. Louis, Vanderbilt, etc., the difference won’t matter much, barring regional jobs and markets (i.e. Entertainment Industry). You’ll be fine and plenty of great companies recruit from there.</p>

<p>Between schools like:</p>

<p>Louisiana-Monroe, Alabama-Huntsville, Tennessee-Chattanooga VS. UT Austin, Michigan, Southern California…HUGE DIFFERENCE AND VERY IMPORTANT.</p>