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Originally Posted by valo403
Alumni connections and pipelines become much more pronounced at the graduate level, it's not as much of an issue when undergrad degrees are involved (Although some employers certainly favor their alums). Specialized degrees are probably different, I don't have one of those though so I really don't know for sure.
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I think if you end up in some big name school, you usually end up pursuing a graduate level of some sort and at some time in the the next 5-10 years.
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Originally Posted by valo403
There's also regional biases, as you've demonstrated. Stanford and Berkley are without a doubt great schools, but I'm sure if you were typing from an office in Boston or NYC you'd be talking about Harvard, MIT, or Columbia. It's not that either is wrong, people are just naturally going to lean towards that with which they are more familiar. Even among the truly elite schools a grad from a west coast school can often find themselves behind grads from east schools, or vice versa, simply because the employer has a regional bias.
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I actually noticed a lot of partnership between East-West universities. For instance, Berkeley-Columbia seem to have strong ties such as their MBA program. I noticed a lot of Harvard connections as well, as well as Cornell, Purdue and Madison. For those West going East, I seem to notice it being more financial, though area probably makes my opinion bias.