<p>@SlackerMomMD:</p>
<p>In some countries, where you went to college almost doesn’t matter (Germany comes to mind; Canada is more like Germany than the US in that regard). So this American penchance of wanting to know where people went to school would strike them as weird.</p>
<p>I’ve worked in software and finance and I’ve never seen a diploma hung up by anyone at work. I don’t even know where mine are (they’re somewhere in my parents’ house, unframed).</p>
<p>With doctors, dentists, and lawyers, it’s tradition and probably started in the past so that clients could be reassured that they weren’t being treated by an uneducated quack.</p>