Each time we have an open requisition and receive candidate resumes, there is an argument about school reputation versus experience. Our CEO is the ultimate school snob. His philosophy is to hire the smartest students from the best schools and let them do their thing. Me, I really want to hire people with some experience, so I am not telling my analysts to not hit reply all and send email to 10,000 coworkers.
I have a new analyst starting tomorrow. He graduated from University of Illinios Urbana-Champaign (#41) and has about four and a half years of experience. I scanned through the US News & World Report National University Rankings and most of the finance team comes from the top 50 schools, while the accounting team comes from more local schools like Cal State Los Angeles/Long Beach/Fullerton/Dominguez Hills. There is nothing wrong with those schools, but our company discriminates against non-ranked schools when recruiting candidates.
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I graduated from university many years ago. Hopefully no one is judging my work based on ancient educational history, but my schools are still ranked #20 and #25.
Since I attended USC for graduate school, I am unsure if the #25 ranking for undergraduate program applies. I will need to find specific rankings for my two master’s degree programs.
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Heh, there are rankings for everything.
Engineering Schools: USC Viterbi #15, UCLA Samueli #16
Business Schools: USC Marshall #19
It has been ~30 years since I attended university, so the current rankings have no relation to what the schools were like back then.
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