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Re:Which degrees give the best financial returns? by brianwawok on Friday December 25, 2015 @11:37PM (#10793275)
It may make your first offer harder. Some companies are way more likely to put a booth at the career fair of MIT compared to Foo State. After that meh.. some people care about schools, many do not.
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Re:Which degrees give the best financial returns? by santaclaus on Saturday December 26, 2015 @12:47AM (#10793417)
I would imagine that the social network one builds in college can help later on, too, if only for internal referrals. I would be interested to see what percentage of Google employees attended Stanford vs. other schools vs. started professionally programming without a college degree.
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