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

[Johann]

The professors with As are living the cushy life. They are some of the highest paid professors making around 6 figures....

I know it's off-topic, but the real cushy life belongs to the College football and basketball coaches, not the professors. Some of them make $5 million or $6 million a year!
I've long thought that something is very, very wrong with that picture. I'm glad we don't have this syndrome in Canadian universities.

Back to law school. I've heard that job prospects in the legal profession are extremely bleak for many newly-graduated lawyers.

Q: What do you call 2/3 of recent law-school grads?
A: Waiter.

Johann

[soliloquy]

I know it's off-topic, but the real cushy life belongs to the College football and basketball coaches, not the professors. Some of them make $5 million or $6 million a year!
I've long thought that something is very, very wrong with that picture. I'm glad we don't have this syndrome in Canadian universities.

Johann

No crap. They need to take about 75% of that and disburse that money to the young men who are sacrificing their gray matter every time they take a hit - especially with a 3% chance of making it pro.

[sanantone]

I know it's off-topic, but the real cushy life belongs to the College football and basketball coaches, not the professors. Some of them make $5 million or $6 million a year!
I've long thought that something is very, very wrong with that picture. I'm glad we don't have this syndrome in Canadian universities.

I agree, but I doubt many people with law degrees go on to coach. :p

[LaterBloomer]

When I went to check out the highest state salaries a year or so ago, I saw how many of them went to coaches. What does it say about our colleges and universities, who one hopes have the goal of educating people, if the highest paid staff memebers are coaches? Heck, what does it say about my state that that's the case?

[UptonSinclair]

If you have nothing to offer in a quality education, sports are the only way to build name recognition. Who knows the MIT football mascot?

[Johann]

...Who knows the MIT football mascot?

Tim the Beaver - for the past 100 years. Tim the Beaver Mascot History - Campus Activities Complex - MIT Division of Student Life

My turn to ask questions now -- OK, who here can prove the Riemann hypothesis? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riemann_hypothesis

Johann

[indivinefavor]

I think that article may be looking on the extreme side of things. I think experience plus education is the best possible combination for a successful career. With that being, I am one of the youngest people in my field and I have no degree to show it. However, I put it a lot of long, hard hours to get here where I'm at. I'm grateful, but I've also hit a glass ceiling and I know that I can't proceed any further in my career with a formal degree. I'd be hard pressed to find someone like my boss who doesn't have a degree...good luck with that search lol.

Both are important!!

[AkaiOkami]

Had a hiring manager point out a few things to me on what he looks for when going through resumes. First off, academics, military, boy/girl scouts and others are separated into different piles. I'll stick to academics solely for this discussion of this post. Resumes in the academic pile is weighted on schools but only in highly skilled areas that are needed. Lawyers, ivy league or popular big name universities that specialize in this subject, a degree from anywhere else and your resume is tossed out, period! IT, a degree from MIT or a big name school that specializes in the field needed, anywhere else, then you better prove you know your stuff or your resume will be tossed. Engineering, popular big name tech school or your resume is tossed. See a pattern? The hiring manager will weigh your resume more—, academically, if he knows your school; and the company prefers to hire from certain schools in certain highly skilled fields because they know from previous hires the quality of student turnout from the desired school. If you are not applying for a highly skilled job position then a degree from a known school will weigh more than an unknown school. Why, risk! A company does not want to risk a bad investment on a school that is not known because they do not know what the quality of student output is. But, putting on your resume that you tested out of 90 - 100% of courses shows that you are very smart, creative and think out of the box; and you do not owe $100,00+ of student loan debt. These will earn big brownie points in the eyes of the hiring manager.

[EI2HCB]

Had a hiring manager point out a few things to me on what he looks for when going through resumes. First off, academics, military, boy/girl scouts and others are separated into different piles. I'll stick to academics solely for this discussion of this post. Resumes in the academic pile is weighted on schools but only in highly skilled areas that are needed. Lawyers, ivy league or popular big name universities that specialize in this subject, a degree from anywhere else and your resume is tossed out, period! IT, a degree from MIT or a big name school that specializes in the field needed, anywhere else, then you better prove you know your stuff or your resume will be tossed. Engineering, popular big name tech school or your resume is tossed. See a pattern? The hiring manager will weigh your resume more—, academically, if he knows your school; and the company prefers to hire from certain schools in certain highly skilled fields because they know from previous hires the quality of student turnout from the desired school. If you are not applying for a highly skilled job position then a degree from a known school will weigh more than an unknown school. Why, risk! A company does not want to risk a bad investment on a school that is not known because they do not know what the quality of student output is. But, putting on your resume that you tested out of 90 - 100% of courses shows that you are very smart, creative and think out of the box; and you do not owe $100,00+ of student loan debt. These will earn big brownie points in the eyes of the hiring manager.

Any comments Mrs B?

[videogamesrock]

I think big name goes for anything. If it is easily recognizable people give it more clout. Such as name brand versus generic. For example Head of Finance at Berkshire Hathaway would command more interest than Head of Finance at Morgan Business Ventures.