Do Elite Colleges Lead to Higher Salaries? Only for Some Professions

Re:Do Elite Colleges Lead to Higher Salaries? Only for Some ... by ralphc on Monday February 01, 2016 @02:38PM (#11014723)

Got my Bachelor's in ICS from Georgia Tech in 1984. After a layoff from Oracle in 2012, 28 years later, my recruiter said that the Georgia Tech degree opened doors and got me interviews. I was interviewing in the metro Atlanta area but still.

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Re:Do Elite Colleges Lead to Higher Salaries? Only for Some ... by dpeck on Monday February 01, 2016 @02:57PM (#11014879)

oddly enough the GT degree is probably more respected outside of Atlanta/Georgia than in it.

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Re:Do Elite Colleges Lead to Higher Salaries? Only for Some ... by ap3 on Monday February 01, 2016 @02:46PM (#11014795)

After 28 years your work history would trump whatever you did in school.

Amazingly the Georgia Tech degree did not prevent a layoff

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Re:Do Elite Colleges Lead to Higher Salaries? Only for Some ... by sokoloff on Monday February 01, 2016 @10:09PM (#11017454)

Nor did MIT prevent 2 of mine when the company closed an entire office or killed an entire product. It did make the landing a lot softer and quicker I think.

Partial layoffs (20% of your job "family") are usually about the employee. Wholesale layoffs (all of a job type, all of a product team, all of a location) are generally completely independent of the specific employee, skills, capabilities, or performance.

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