Is what you study more important than where you study? (Link to Higher Ed article)

Parents Forum
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<p>Might we spend too much time worrying about where our offspring go to college?</p>

<p>This article suggests that 54% of business leaders don’t think it’s important:</p>

<p><a href=“http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2014/02/26/provosts-business-leaders-disagree-graduates-career-readiness”>http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2014/02/26/provosts-business-leaders-disagree-graduates-career-readiness&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>College major obviously does matter more than which school (assuming decent school for the major) if one is aiming for jobs and careers where specific skills and knowledge associated with a college major are expected.</p>

<p>But the reverse may be more true for jobs where specific skills and knowledge are not so important (or where they are associated with a very common major), but there is an elitist attitude surrounding the job, and school prestige is used as a differentiator to find the “elite” among the applicants and aspirants to the job.</p>

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<p>I found this to be interesting:

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