<p>Ok so the title says it all, what fields/professions place emphasis on prestige of undergraduate schools. For example I heard that investment banking, and consulting care a lot about undergraduate prestige while as Law Schools/Medical Schools don't care as much. What fields in general care more about undergraduate prestige?</p>
<p>You are more likely to see company recruiters in your school’s career center if (a) your school is local to the employers, or (b) your school is highly regarded in the subject that the company is recruiting for.</p>
<p>My spouse has hired Engineers for many years. When it comes down to actually deciding on a new hire around a conference table, where that person went to college never influences their decision. The applicants’ skills, experience, personality, etc, are what truly matter. Prestige of one’s college/university is just not considered. </p>
<p>This has always been the case, no matter where my husband has worked. So he does laugh at the “prestige” which so many people seem to be so gung ho about!</p>
<p>Finance for sure.</p>
<p>Silicon Valley firms are fairly prestige-obsessed from what I’ve read.</p>
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<p>Besides the obvious Berkeley and Stanford, their university recruiting trips may go for visits to places like MIT, CMU, UIUC, SJSU, and UCSC.</p>
<p>But for experienced people seeking new jobs, it matters much less where one graduated from.</p>
<p>Seems like finance is pretty prestige driven and unfortunately for me I am headed off to a non-target this fall.</p>
<p>Fortunately for you, people do find jobs on their own sometimes, by being hard-working, competent, personable, creative and relentless in their pursuit of their dreams–as opposed to waiting for someone to come to their dorm and recruit them.</p>
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<p>Or, they just have had good luck at your school and they continue recruiting there. One of the big myths on CC is that if a company recruits at (say) 6 schools, they believe those schools to be “better” than the schools they didn’t recruit at. Nothing could be further from the truth. It may be that this school is where the CEO went, that school is in an easy-to-get-to location so it’s easy to get managers to travel there, that school had some particularly loyal alums who pushed it. It’s not because corporate HR people are making value judgments. They just have to simplify somehow, so they find 6 schools that work for them and continue there year after year for simplicity’s sake. Not because they have decreed these schools and these schools alone produce quality candidates.</p>
<p>Touche Ghostt and that’s what I plan on doing, just going to be relentless, hopefully not aggravating too many people along the way.</p>