Is what you study more important than where you study? (Link to Higher Ed article)

[Mindfully]

<p>Might we spend too much time worrying about where our offspring go to college?</p>

<p>This article suggests that 54% of business leaders don't think it's important:</p>

<p><a href="http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2014/02/26/provosts-business-leaders-disagree-graduates-career-readiness"&gt;http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2014/02/26/provosts-business-leaders-disagree-graduates-career-readiness&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

[ucbalumnus]

<p>College major obviously does matter more than which school (assuming decent school for the major) if one is aiming for jobs and careers where specific skills and knowledge associated with a college major are expected.</p>

<p>But the reverse may be more true for jobs where specific skills and knowledge are not so important (or where they are associated with a very common major), but there is an elitist attitude surrounding the job, and school prestige is used as a differentiator to find the “elite” among the applicants and aspirants to the job.</p>

[Erin_s_Dad]

<p>I found this to be interesting:

When provosts are asked how they’re doing, they think of all the great things they’re doing with individual students on campus. But when you ask businesses and members of the public, they think about everyone who hasn’t had the chance to go to college.

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