<p>Who has a better value for their degree in terms of number and quality of jobs offers- UIUC, Wiconsin, UT-Austin, Purdue, Rice or Berkeley????</p>
<p>I think a lot of that depends on your field and the individual. If you don’t fit well with a school’s atmosphere, odds are you won’t get nearly as much out of it as someone that fits.</p>
<p>If you were accepted at each of those schools and could afford to go to each of those schools, I would say: Berkeley</p>
<p>I don’t think there is a single answer. Depends on lots of stuff, including where you want to live.</p>
<p>If you want to be an engineer, Berkeley or Purdue. If you want to be an accountant, UT Austin. Comp Sci- UIUC. How are we supposed to answer your question???</p>
<p>Probably whichever one you can get in-state tuition, if any, will be the better deal.</p>
<p>After that. it just comes down to the job you get upon graduation. You can’t peg one as better than the other for the job marketplace if that’s what you’re trying to do.</p>
<p>Well my quenstion is for any field. In other words, which degree would an employer gives more waitage to??? Who would an employer prefer more a UIUC grad or Wisconsin grad or UT grad etc..</p>
<p>I think it depends both on what part of the country and what field you’re in. I imagine in most cases there will be a bit of a home field advantage as employers know what they’re getting with a local employee and have to worry a bit less about relocation problems.</p>
<p>hotshot:</p>
<p>Again, I doubt there’ll be a huge difference in employer demand between the schools you state. If you’re interested in working in a particular part of the country afterwards, there’s sometimes an advantage to the more local/regional school since employers in that area may be more familiar with the programs at that college. Employers hire from lots of different schools.</p>
<p>What major are you interested in? If it’s CS/CSE, I doubt you’ll see much difference.</p>
<p>There is no such particular state i want to work in. i am looking for com engg jobs</p>
<p>HS101,</p>
<p>Your question shows a sad degree of naivety regarding job markets, degrees and prestige. Indeed, it is obviously the latter you are asking about, in an indirect way.</p>
<p>While there are many nuances to this issue, the short answer is that the school you go to has far less (perhaps nothing) to do with your prospects than your own efforts do. No one is hiring a Baylor grad. They are hiring a human being that happened to go to Baylor.</p>
<p>You would be better off focusing on the fit between you and a particular college than on the name you will attend. </p>
<p>JMHO.</p>
<p>“No one is hiring a Baylor grad. They are hiring a human being that happened to go to Baylor.”</p>
<p>This statement now rises above my previous favorite of “love the kid on the couch”</p>
<p>Well, well, said.</p>
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UIUC = Wisconsin = Texas = Purdue = Rice = Berkeley
All these schools are very well respected in the engineering fields. You will have plenty of job opportunities no matter which you decide to attend.</p>
<p>Some thing to keep in mind: Employers aren’t likely to pay a premium for a more prestigious school/program…especially in engineering. Therefore, go to the option that gives you the best value for your money. What others have said about regional employment opportunities are also true. However, if you wanted to work on the west coast with a degree from Purdue, you can get in the door, you just have to do more leg work.</p>
<p>Your engineering gpa will make more of a difference than any of the schools you mentioned, with Berkeley possibly having a slight edge, and MIT/Caltech/Mudd also. Engineering recruiters are <em>very</em> focused on four gpa bands (which is why Cornell sorta sucks in that regard): 3.5+, 3.3-3.5, 3.0 - 3.2, and under 3.0.</p>
<p>Berkeley has the best CPE program of the bunch. It’s internationally reknowned as being top 3 with Stanford & MIT. Of course, it’s also amazingly hard to get into. It’s probably also the biggest grade deflator of any school on your list.</p>
<p>It highly depends what is your major/degree and where you plan to live. </p>
<p>For example, I live in the Midwest and attended Midwestern schools. The employers have a stronger idea of the alumni base of a particular school in their region than if you graduated elsewhere like the West Coast or the South.</p>
<p>I don’t think the question is so silly. In all honesty, at the firms I’ve worked at for 25 plus years, a Berkeley degree would have been most accepted in this group and I never hired for jobs in CA. I don’t think there’s any question degrees have different values. The quality of the school itself and the departments your work was in both apply towards assessing the value.</p>
<p>^^ But for a BS in CS or CSE all of the schools mentioned are highly respected. I doubt most employers would give the nod to someone who happened to attend Cal vs. UIUC, UT-Austin, etc. It’s not like comparing Cal with a small unknown college.</p>
<p>One advantage to Cal though is that it’s located in the Silicon Valley where there are lots of employment opportunities in the CS/CSE (or, for Cal, EECS) field.</p>
<p>UCSD, I was thinking in terms of if you were hiring globally. When I interview I have several locations around the world the candidate could end up at. </p>
<p>I agree with you that if a CS major is seeking a typical industry job, location of school is the key and each of these schools is strongest in it’s region. More than anything because of on campus recruitment being where so many connect with their jobs.</p>
<p>However, many CS grads, especially from top programs, seek jobs in things like management consulting and ibanking. My commercial banker is a CS grad of a good program too! And many tech companies have elite jobs they only recruit from a few schools for. For those heading for the less traditional school would still be an important consideration for a CS major according to my very ambitious CS major who looked hard at all of these schools for grad work.</p>