How much does school prestige matter after PHD for academia/research

<p>G.P. I’m not sure what you have to support your comparison, but I know OSU has a much higher USNWR graduate program ranking for engineering than Dartmouth. Dartmouth has a much smaller number of engineering grad students than OSU. Also, OSU is the largest university in this country so I would think based on the program size and overall size, they would get many more companies targeting graduates than Dartmouth. Frankly, I didn’t even know Dartmouth had an engineering program.</p>

<p>Moreover, I would have to disagree that an average Dartmouth engineering student would have more opportunities than a top OSU student. Now for programs outside of engineering I couldn’t comment on (business, liberal arts, etc…). If you are just talking about recruiting for Wall St. positions or the like, your claim might be closer to the truth.</p>