Does anyone actually care where I go to school (engineering)?

boneh3ad
Sun, 22 Mar 2015 16:42:02 +0000

It’s been my experience that graduate schools largely don’t care where you did your undergraduate studies so long as you took ample advantages of the opportunities you were afforded at said school. It has been my observation that perhaps the biggest admissions advantage of going to a well-known school is that a prospective graduate program is more likely to overlook a slightly lower GPA if your undergraduate program is one that is known to be rather rigorous or of particular high quality to the admissions committee. Otherwise, I don’t see there being much of a disadvantage in this regard in switching to UB, especially if you can find some research to do while you study there.

For what it’s worth, Buffalo may not be as well known to the general public, but I have never even been to the state of New York and I know it is a quality engineering program. In fact, I went to graduate school with several UB alumni.