Why pick an honors college over a "name?"

<p>Thank you all for your opinions and info.</p>

<p>We are in the preliminary stages of searching and was curious to see what the advantages would be. For example: Would you hire someone for genetics research that took their undergrad courses at Duke rather than Calhoun College (Clemson’s honors college)? Or does it even matter? Should you even worry about that at this stage, or wait until you get into your Masters or Doctorate program? Does a “name” really make a difference when they start applying for jobs? I realize those are two very different institutions (Duke v. Clemson), but those are the two in our general area that we’ve looked at (one in person and one online only). We’ve looked at other colleges and are continuing to look at more. Again, we are still in the early stages of looking and I wanted to get everyone’s opinions. It’s hard to schedule all these visits and was more or less trying to narrow down our list.</p>

<p>Thanks again everyone!</p>