<p>" wonder what I should think my my bosses throughout my career. My first job was with Lehman Brothers in London. My boss (who recruited me on campus) was a fellow Michigan alum. However, most of my peers at Lehman (and later on at Goldman Sachs) did not attend elite universities. Many attended top universities but the majority attended schools that would be considered “second, or even third, tier” on this forum. </p>
<p>Since my investment banking days, none of my bosses attended what we would consider an elite university. At Ford, my boss was a Western Michigan alum and at Eaton, my boss was a Case Western alum, at my last couple of firms, my bosses attended the University of Manchester (in the UK) and the Ohio State University respectively.</p>
<p>At my current employer (one of the major US consulting firms with over 55,000 employees globaly), my boss is a UConn alum. Note than none of my bosses would be what I would consider the exception. Most of their peers attended similar institutions. Of my peers at the consulting firm I am currently working at, only 4 out of 40 attended top universities (one Chicago alum, one Georgetown alum one LSE alum and myself). The rest of my peers attended schools that would not inspire awe! The star of my department is an Eastern Illinois alum. The guy just knows how to get things done well and on time and he is an incredible team player and contributor. I am trying to model my behavior and attitude by watching how he operates. On a side note, the CEO of our firm is a St. Joseph University alum, and darn proud of it too.</p>
<p>Bottom line, if you attend a top university, or eat at an awesome restaurant or stay at an exclusive resort or drive a performance vehicle, be sure you do it for your own satisfaction and development. Anybody worth his (or her) salt will not judge you based on any of those."</p>
<p>Wonderful post!!!Some people believe that only going to elite university will give you acess to top notch jobs…i remember looking at the list of billionaires and i did i little research and found out that most of them didn´t go to elite schools. I´m not from USA and it blows my mind to see so many people obsessed with prestige. I have some american friends going to top universities only because of their name…they think that´s what going to give them “the dream job”.
Back on the topic, here in south america the most famous american universities are:
harvard
MIT
Stanford
Yale
Berkeley
UCLA
UM
columbia
princeton</p>
<p>as for european universities:
cambridge
oxford
LSE
sorbonne</p>