Does Location of School Matter?

blueiguana
Wed, 29 Aug 2012 16:41:24 +0000

I would investigate what companies actively recruit at the schools your son is interested in. Depending on your sons intended major you can get this from the department (the engineering and business schools can tell you who is recruited their students) or from career services. This will tell you if it is very regional, or a larger area.

Personally, I wouldn’t encourage my student to choose a school based on where they think they may want to end up living. To many things are fluid. Kids change majors, they end up going to grad school in another part of the county, they are offered a job at higher pay elsewhere and due to student loans they can’t afford to pass the opportunity by, they fall in love and end up following their sweetheart where they settle, they go on study abroad and decide the worlds a big place, maybe their original thought at 18 doesn’t fit them at 22. Any number of things can, and usually do, happen.