<p>Um, just an update. US News rankings have been inaccurate due to the way they rank colleges. Not many people know about exactly how they rate, but they rate mostly by graduation rate and a lot of of methods that can skew the rankings significantly. What I can tell you is this is how employer’s see colleges (talked to my boss about this too). There are only 3 sections.
AMAZING Schools: Harvey Mudd, Stanford, Harvard, MIT, Yale… essentially the Ivies that everybody can name. You’re in, your research and internships only add.
Good School: Okay these would include stuff like BU, John Hopkins, RPI and Duke all in the same level. Because they’re all in the same level, what matters really is how much work you put into your college, for example research and internships, and your college name gives you a head start, but all these colleges are seen as the same because most employers really don’t know the “rankings”.
Average Schools: State universities and so on. Your employment is entirely based on WHAT you did in college, the name won’t help you that much.</p>
<p>So, remember, go for the college you love, your employer a lot of the time, can only separate the names somewhat. What matters is what you do with the place you choose.</p>