<p>Well you use a weird example because OSU is a nationally known tier one university and you aren’t going to have a name recognition issue (for employers who care about name recognition.)</p>
<p>There is also a large study that shows that student who got into elite colleges but couldn’t go, for affordability or whatever reasons, did just as well. </p>
<p>There is no way to tell you ‘how much’ it matters. So some employers it doesn’t matter at all. To some, OSU is impressive. To some they only target a few schools.</p>