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

[Catcherinthetoast]

@Data10

The original post of this thread mentions in the importance of college prestige in engineering. The discussion started talking about engineering at prestigious colleges.

You mean this original post?

@ucbalumnus

Perhaps it may be helpful to list the usual known levels of importance.

Nursing: low
Medical school admission: low
Law school admission: low
Law: high with respect to law school prestige
PhD program admission: varies by major, and specifically for departmental prestige as viewed by academia in the major
College faculty (tenure track): high, and specifically for departmental prestige of PhD school
Biological sciences (BA/BS level): low
Engineering (BA/BS level): low to medium
Computing (BA/BS level): low to medium
Wall Street investment banking: high
Management consulting: high

Doesn’t seem as you suggest to be specific to engineering.

@cinnamon1212

I don’t really understand why this thread has devolved into an engineering discussion . . .

It also mentions nursing and others but per @cinnamon1212 post the discussion had been primarily about engineering.