College prestige importance or lack thereof for various majors, career paths, and graduate / professional schools

[ucbalumnus]

@Data10

I’d put colleges like Yale in a similar category, even though it does offer EE. Being a Yale grad probably isn’t going to offer much help for typical engineering positions. Yale’s engineering program hasn’t been historically strong. There was even discussion of eliminating engineering from Yale in the 90s. The school has put more money and effort in to engineering recently, but they still have a relatively weak alumni network in key tech areas, and are not considered a preferred tech school by the bulk of recruiters and employers. They also have a relatively small number of engineering grads. Both can influence recruiting efforts at the college.

Another deterrent to recruiting at Yale and similar schools by engineering employers is that Wall Street will probably take away many of the small number of engineering graduates anyway, leaving few to recruit who will not be lured away by Wall Street.