Re:For the first time in history, St Andrews outranks Oxbridge
by rich_sasha on Friday September 17, 2021 @06:14AM
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> In most cases though, industry doesn't care about any of this.
That's not my experience, actually. There is a lot of snobbery in some cases. Some places (UK) make a point of only hiring from certain universities. A friend of mine did his PhD at Birmingham - good university, and excellent at his field, but not a top-5 one. He was on the LIGO experiment, and on the first gravitational wave detection. Got grilled about "why on earth did you go to study at Birmingham???" at a job interview.
You might say, not a good place to work, and you'd be right, but the trend is real.
That's not my experience, actually. There is a lot of snobbery in some cases. Some places (UK) make a point of only hiring from certain universities. A friend of mine did his PhD at Birmingham - good university, and excellent at his field, but not a top-5 one. He was on the LIGO experiment, and on the first gravitational wave detection. Got grilled about "why on earth did you go to study at Birmingham???" at a job interview.
You might say, not a good place to work, and you'd be right, but the trend is real.