<p>when employers see what college u attended in job applications, do they consider the ACADEMIC strength of the school or the school overall (by using the us news and world report rankings)?</p>
<p>because the school rank overall may include stuff like how big sports are in the school and stuff.</p>
<p>Employers take into consideration their previous experiences with alumni from each college.</p>
<p>any one with other inputs?</p>
<p>btw ken285 i dont rely think ur rite :p</p>
<p>I can only speak for my experiences and companies I am familiar with. They tended to hire people from the same few colleges because they have had good experiences with them and those alumni were the ones who were making it up the ladder. These colleges varied immensely in overall prestige. </p>
<p>Another way of looking at it is that they were hiring people from their alma mater. At smaller companies, they may look to their current employees to recommend people. I was asked to find 2 interns and I looked to my alma mater for them. “It’s not what you know, it’s who you know.”</p>
<p>With all that being said, the schools that are generally more prestigious generally get the better jobs. I believe this is due to the alumni just being better employees and not because of their US News ranking.</p>
<p>I agree with ken. The biggest factor is the employer’s experience with other alumni from the school. Employers do not typically look at college rankings. Truthfully, the best that a name-brand college is going to get you is an interview. Not saying that is a small thing, but the person who gives the best interview regardless of their alma mater is going to get the job.</p>
<p>Why the hell are people working so hard to get into good colleges, if it doesn’t help you that much in the long run?</p>
<p>Because it does help you in the long run, of course. Not for such crass things as getting a job through cronyism. There are some exposure and advantages to luxury schools, but they are not necessary if you are a reasonably good scholar at a reasonably good school.</p>
<p>Most employers will regard your Graduate school reputation in your field as much more important than your undergraduate school. but you need a good undergrad school, or a great record to even get into grad school.</p>
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<p>Well the better employees tend to come from the better schools, and companies will go to these schools to recruit if they have a good history with them. However, if in the past, they’ve had numerous employees who didn’t work out and they came from the same school, it raises a red flag.</p>
<p>Graduate program reputation does supersede undergraduate program reputation, but that’s if you actually make it into grad school. A mediocre record from a great school is obviously better than a mediocre record from a mediocre school if you just do undergrad.</p>
<p>Basically, going to a top school (I’d rather not say top ranking school) will have its advantages when it comes to the job search, but that alone won’t make or break your application.</p>