Employers don't care where you went to school, nor about your GPA...Atlantic article.

[dfrecore]

I think this is also mostly applicable to students with little to no work experience just graduating from college. For the rest of us (going back to school years later), we may already have many years of experience in our field and our degrees make little to no difference.

I know that in the Silicon Valley where I worked for many years, even a degree was of no importance. What mattered was who you knew (so you could get your foot in the door, and it didn't matter if it was the receptionist), and that you could do the job. Almost nothing else mattered. A degree is a checkbox for many employers there, just something to weed out the first batch of applicants.

I worked in HR for many years, and we looked at experience, experience, experience. IF a degree was required for the job (think software engineer or accountant), the fact that they had a degree was enough. We NEVER looked at a person's degree, where they went to school, what their GPA was, or any of that. No one cared.

Just my experience.

[ryoder]

I interview people all the time and their university and courses taken are the least of my concerns. Most of them are from India anyway so I don't even know which university is which so I am forced to judge them by their accomplishments and knowledge not the school they attended.

[ryoder]

My company and its a massive one, recruits from the big state schools like FSU and UF here in Florida and we pay interns one thousand per week. If you go to tesc you won't be offered that opportunity. That doesn't mean you can't get. Job but you won't get overpaid for an internship like you would as a sophomore at a big school.