Do public colleges look good on a resume?

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<p>Pardon me for the ignorance maybe, but I’m from Puerto Rico so I’m not really aware as to which type of colleges are better in the US (private or public). In here, the best one of course is the University of Puerto Rico and it’s public. It’s the hardest one to get into, because of it’s low tuition and of course it’s reputation as the best. </p>

<p>I’m applying to 6 colleges in New York, and two of them are public colleges (CUNY/SUNY).
I’m interested in Advertising, Marketing, Fashion Design, Graphic Design. Basically anything that is Design. The private colleges I’m applying to are: Parsons, Pratt, School of Visual Arts & The Cooper Union.</p>

<p>The state colleges would be: Fashion Institute of Technology and the other one is The City College of New York. Now, I know FIT has a great reputation, but I really haven’t heard much about City College. I just want to know if it’s a college that looks good on a resume. I know any college looks good, but I want some thoughts on it.</p>

<p>Of COURSE, I know that studying at a place like NYU would look better, and it’s private. But just give me your opinions about it.</p>

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<p>It depends. Why all colleges are not public? Private colleges are big businesses to make money. In northeast, for example, Ivy league have prestige, in other parts of the country, not so much. Hence, majority of Ivy leaguers work in New York or Boston area. </p>

<p>It’s all about perception and how private schools advertise themselves as better.</p>

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<p>I’m sure design schools are like any other, and that prestige and a well known name carry some degree of weight for some people. However, particularly in a creative field, I’d think that your portfolio would always speak much louder than the college on your diploma. It seems like your plan to apply to privates and publics is a good one since they will likely vary widely in acceptance rates and affordability.</p>

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Not really, as they’re non-profit institutions. They exist to educate students. The only colleges that exist to make money are the for-profit companies such as everest college and devry.
That said, public school do not necessarily look worse than privates, there are good schools and bad ones in both categories. Generally, big name state schools (this would be the SUNYs in NYs case) and well known liberal arts colleges look the best.</p>

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<p>Like private universities, there are good and bad public universities. The elite publics, like Cal, Michigan, UCLA, UIUC, UNC, UT-Austin, UVa, William and Mary, Wisconsin etc… have excellent reputations at the national levels. </p>

<p>It also varies according to profession. If you are interested in Engineering, publics such as Georgia Tech, Purdue, Texas A&M and Virginia Tech look great on your CV. </p>

<p>Finally, it depends on the region. Flagship state schools have very strong reputations in their local states.</p>

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<p>If you go to a public school you are poor and will not succeed.</p>

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<p>^then why go to college at all, if that is true.</p>

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<p>That wasn’t a serious comment btp.</p>

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<p>“If you go to a public school you are poor and will not succeed.”</p>

<p>I realize that was not intended as a serious comment. But out of curiosity, I went through the numbers and here are my findings.</p>

<p>The 163 men and women listed below all have two things in common:</p>

<p>1) Studied at a public university
2) A net worth over $1,000,000,000 </p>

<p>That’s roughly equal to half of all Billionnaires who have graduate from US universities. </p>

<p>Brown, John
McLane, Robert
Sall, John
Druckenmiller, Stanley
Spielberg, Steven
Al Ghurair, Abdul Aziz
Hearst, Austin
Adelson, Sheldon
Scott, Walter
Gross, Willam
Karsh, Bruce
West, Alfred
Calamos, John
Cuban, Mark
Wagner, Todd
Stryker, Jon
Dalio, Ray
Swieca, Henry
Clark , James
Krohn, Tracy
Wyly, Samuel
Simons, James
Farmer, Richard
Rales, Mitchell
Bailey, Thomas
Broad, Eli
Gilbert, Daniel
Gores, Tom
Takenaka, Toichi
Taylor, Glen
Williams, Arthur
Goodnight, James
Wexner, Leslie
Pickens, T Boone
Edens, Wesley
Ozyegin, Husnu
Hamm, Harold
Schmidt, Eric
Bechtel, Stephen
Kirk, Randal
Marcus, Bernard
Kordestani, Omid
Thompson, Jim
Jacobs , Jeremy
Winfrey, Oprah
Mays, Lowry
Mitchell, George
Anschutz, Philip
Robertson, Julian
Dorrance, Bennett
Malone, Alice
Moreno, Arturo
Jones, Jerral
Walton, Jim
Herb, Marvin
Al Ghanim, Kutayba
Al Ghanim, Bassam
Jackson, Jess
Milken , Lowell
Milken , Michael
Moore, Gordon
Sarofim, Fayez
Simonyi, Charles
Son, Masayoshi
Bechtel, Riley
Anderson, John
Diller, Barry
Gonda, Louis
Mann, Alfred
Nicholas, Henry
Perenchio, Jerrold
Saji, Nabutada
Samueli, Henry
Udvar-Hazy, Steven
Shaw, David
Sperling, Peter
Marsico, Thomas
Kennedy, James
Nathanson, Marc
Zucker, Jerry
Bluhm, Neil
Johnson, Michael
Siebel, Thomas
Bucksbaum, Matthew
Waitt, Theodor
Ueltschi, Albert
Brin, Sergey
Snyder, Daniel
Walton, Laurie Nancy
Beyster, Robert
Davidson, William
Munger, Charles
Page, Larry
Ross, Stephen
Taubman Alfred
Tisch, Joan
Wasserstein, Bruce
Zell, Samuel
Ilicak, Erman
Hubbard, Stanley
Sanford, Denny
Lampton, Leslie
Kinderq, Richard
Spangler, Clemmie
Stryker, Ronda
Stryker, Patrick
Headington, Timothy
Price, Michael
Ward, Tom
Knight, Philip
Scaife, Richard
Tepper, Davis
Fertitta, Lorenzo
McNair, Robert
Barrack, Thomas
Benioff, Marc
Casden, Alan
Cook, Scott
Fertitta, Frank
Hughes, Bradley
Jannard James
Lucas, George
Olenicoff, Igor
Roski, Edward
Ergen, Charles
Dell, Michael
Englehorn, Curt
Geffen, David
Hicks, Thomas
Hildebrand, Jeffrey
Jamail, Joseph
McCombs, Billy Joe “Red”
Moncrief, William
Rainwater, Richard
Rowling, Robert
Simmons, Harold
Balsillie, James
Sherman , Bernard
Skoll, Jeffrey
Holding, Robert
Marriott, Richard
Marriott, John
Ainslie, Lee
Batten, Frank
Jones, Paul Tudor II
Santo, Domingo Julio Mario
Bonderman, David
Bren, Donald
Edson, John
Menard, John
Morgridge, John
Saul, Bernard
Johnson, Rupert, Jr.
Allen, Paul
Gores, Alec
Burrell, Gary
Bharat, Desai
Ko, Min
Khorakiwala, Habil
Perez, Jorge
Shriram, Kavitark Ram
Zennstrom, Niklas</p>

<p>Combined, they are worth $550,000,000,000</p>

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At current asset prices? ;)</p>

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<p>If I put UF on my resume, will people think I’m a swamp hillbilly?</p>

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<p>kls2006. Most people are clueless about the location of universities. I doubt they’ll be thinking about a swamp when they see the UF on your resume. I can’t vouch for the hillbilly part. Just kidding. ;-)</p>

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<p>No worse than a private school would look on a resume. It isn’t like Puerto Rico here. The best school for one person isn’t the best school for another. There is no clear gradation of colleges the way that there is abroad.</p>

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<p>In some professions the best school to have on your resume is one that happens to be public. In some job markets, certain public schools will get your resume off the table sooner than any private one.</p>

<p>In other words, if the NAME of the school is going to be important in your profession, and in the job markets you are looking at, then you have to do the research to determine which NAME (or NAMES) have the greatest value for YOU.</p>

<p>You might even find out that there is no important NAME at all.</p>

<p>Wishing you all the best.</p>

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<p>Yes, public colleges look good on a resume.</p>