Tulane vs. Iowa State Architecture?

fallenchemist
Sat, 24 Oct 2015 15:00:24 +0000

I agree with you @rick12. I have never heard those in this field refer to the rankings but instead look at experience if a senior hire and tend to hire from regional schools when doing new hires. That doesn’t mean a Tulane grad won’t get interviews at firms in New York, St. Louis, Dallas or San Francisco. It just means they might have to really do a great job convincing those firms as to why Tulane is different and perhaps gives a bit of an edge. I think Tulane potentially does offer such an opportunity due to the greater hands-on experiences now available. I don’t hear of most other schools doing that to the same extent as Tulane has been since Katrina.

I will add that the idea that employers look at rankings for any field of study at the undergraduate level is probably ludicrous. Frankly, no grad school that I know of does either. They look at your grades, your test scores, and if you made an effort to do some extra work (usually research) in your major, which ties into recommendations. To some degree it is the same for employers. They are looking to see something that separates you from the 300 other applications for that job.