5 Advantages of Attending Brand-Name College
Attending a name-brand college or university will give you the following professional advantages over those who attended schools which are less well known:
- It will be easier for you to get interviews and job offers at prestigious big companies.
- Big companies will offer you more favorable starting positions and higher salaries.
- People at big companies will have a more positive initial impression of you even if they haven't yet seen your work.
- It will be easier for you to get involved in a more promising start-up company.
- It will be easier for you to get admitted into name-brand graduate schools.
Source: Philip Guo, Ph.D. student studying computer science at Stanford University and previously an undergraduate and master's student at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Leave a comment