Your alumni university will effect your internship oppurtunities and job positions?

<p>Where you attend and become a alumni at will affect your internship oppurtunities and job positions in the future, explain? By how much?</p>

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<p>I’m reading across threads and it seems to appear that internship oppurtunities are only offered at certain schools, and job positions seem to only be offered to certain alumni(s). Could anyone explain all of this?
Thanks</p>

<p>Companies and Firms hire from specific schools because they have a good relationship. This does not mean companies and firms ONLY hire from these schools. You can always apply to each individual company or firm manually. The only difference is, if you go to your school’s job fair, they have specific people designated to hiring from that school and it can give you an advantage.</p>

<p>It doesn’t matter where you go as long as you get good grades. The prominent internship markets tend to be in larger cities, so initially, going to an urban university might be an seen as an advantage, but after graduating, your alma mater, urban or not, has little bearing on your available job positions. Just do well and take advantage of the opportunities given to you, whether you attend State U or Harvard.</p>

<p>Most schools have some sort of career fair. Take advantage of these.</p>

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<p>That’s not true. Don’t pretend it is. The classic example is the financial industry, an industry that ONLY interviews graduates of Ivies/Duke/Chicago/Stanford/AWS.</p>

<p>Short answer: It depends. </p>

<p>If you go to a lousy school, yeah your opportunities will be limited but whats really important is where you go to school for your last degree. You could go to a Tier 3 school for undergrad you’ll do fine as long as you go to a decent graduate school.</p>

<p>What’s AWS bigp9998?</p>

<p>bdude: Amherst Williams Swarthmore (aka HYP for liberal arts colleges)</p>

<p>Those aren’t the only schools financial industries recruit from. USC and Claremont shell out students who end up as investment bankers at the big investment bank firms. There are certain schools that do have really great internship opportunities and job positions, even if they’re not top 10 schools, the schools with the biggests alumnis, like USC, will have these connections. I can imagine some state schools also do to such as Berkeley, Michigan, and Virginia.
It’s a give and take situation.</p>

<p>bigp9998: I don’t know where you heard that, (well I wouldn’t be surprised if it were from other CCers) but you’re completely wrong… sorry… unless you can find me empirical data to support your outlandish statement. </p>

<p>Keep in mind that only about 1% of the American population attends a top tier school (including more than just “Ivies/Duke/Chicago/Stanford/AWS”). So you’re saying that only <1% of the American population is even ALLOWED to interview in the financial sector? C’mon…</p>

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<p>Yes, that is exactly what I am saying for many financial sector jobs. Liek0806 is correct that my initial list of schools was a bit too restrictive, other top-tier schools are also feeders for these types of jobs, including the ones that he/she mentioned. I’m not saying that EVERY financial sector job requires an Ivy League or similar degree, I’m saying that some do, in order to disprove your original statement that</p>

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<p>Investment banking is the classic example of an industry that does, indeed, care where you went to school. Try getting an interview from Goldman Sachs coming from anywhere other than a top-tier school and tell me how that goes for you.</p>

<p>The following list may be of some help to you as you try to understand this. It lists the top feeder schools to elite graduate and professional schools.</p>

<p><a href=“WSJ in Higher Education | Trusted News & Real-World Insights”>http://wsjclassroom.com/pdfs/wsj_college_092503.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>That’s interesting - the President and COO of Goldman-Sachs is a graduate of American University. And he personally recruits from AU’s Kogod School.</p>

<p><a href=“http://www.american.edu/americantoday/campus-news/20090414-commencement-speakers-2009.cfm[/url]”>http://www.american.edu/americantoday/campus-news/20090414-commencement-speakers-2009.cfm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>Kenneth Lewis, the Chairman and CEO of Bank of America, is a graduate of Georgia State University.</p>

<p>Vikram Pandit, the CEO of Citicorps, is a graduate of Gannon University.</p>

<p>Another balloon busted.</p>

<p>Jamie Dimon. Chairman and CEO of JP Morgan Chase, is a graduate of Tufts.</p>

<p>John Stumpf, the President and CEO of Wells Fargo, is a graduate of St. Cloud State University.</p>

<p>Stephen Steinour, CEO of Huntington BancShares, is a graduate of Gettysburg College.</p>

<p>Robert P. Kelley, the CEO of Mellon/Bank of New York, is a graduate of St. Mary’s University in Nova Scotia.</p>

<p>Ellen McColgan, President and CEO of Morgan Stanley Global Wealth Management, is a graduate of Montclair State College.</p>

<p>There’s really no correlation between which college the CEO attended and where the company likes to recruit from.</p>

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wow, this must be old. it says Wash U is expensive at $28,300.</p>

<p>There is a HUGE correlation. How do you think the CEOs get there? - they move up, switching companies as they go. That is the history of every single one of the folks above. Or are you simply saying they recruit from Ivies, AWS, etc., but really don’t think folks from there are qualified to lead?</p>

<p>Duncan Niederauer, CEO of the New York Stock Exchange, is a graduate of Colgate.</p>

<p>Ron Logue, CEO of State Street Bank, is a graduate of Boston College.</p>

<p>How many of those CEOs chose to pursue an advanced degree, and where did they get that degree from. And there’s still not a strong correlation between that and where the majority of recruitment is coming from in these top companies.</p>

<p>Almost all of them have advanced degrees, and ALL of them, without exception, got those advanced degrees by graduating from their NON-Ivy, non-AWS colleges and universities. (you’d be surprised at how many of those advanced degrees do not come from Ivy League universities.)</p>

<p>These companies may recruit more heavily from certain colleges and universities (though it is clear that they hire from many, many others); it is equally clear that those aren’t in particular places that they necessarily think their future leadership is coming from. The proof is in the pudding.</p>

<p>mini, I would appreciate it if you could clarify your position on the matter–are you suggesting, as another poster did, that it “does not matter where you go to school as long as you get good grades” or that attending an elite school is not the ONLY way to make it to the top? I would certainly agree with you if it is the second one, while I do feel that it is rather misleading to other posters to act like it is easy to do so.</p>

<p>Will you agree with me that top investment banks recruit FAR more heavily at the types of schools I mentioned above than they do at other schools? Would you then agree with me that there is a difference in internship opportunities and job placement as well? While all of your statements about the various CEOs are indeed accurate, I do think it a bit disingenuous to act like attending Montclair State College is a well-trodden path to investment banking.</p>

<p>We seem to have gotten off on a tangent about investment banking, as often happens on CC–I was using it as an example of an industry that is traditionally very elitist. Perhaps the OP could clarify which industry he/she is interested in so that we could provide a better response.</p>

<p>I will also admit that in my haste to respond to the original statement, I painted far too broad of strokes and may have been easily misunderstood–I should have said that CERTAIN SECTORS of the financial industry recruit only from the types of schools I mentioned. The way I said it, I now realize, sounded like I was suggesting that you cannot get any job in finance if you go to the University of Michigan, for example, which is obviously blatantly incorrect.</p>