The Power Struggle in the P5 begins...

[Kolumbo]

Fair enough. Every conference has schools that are stronger academically than other schools in the conference. There are some good schools in the SEC. And Missouri must be up to par academically if the BIG was/is interested. The only part of "Clean Face's" post that I disagreed with is what he wrote about the SEC. I pretty much agreed with everything else he wrote.

Honestly I think the whole academic angle is over-blown. Any university is excellent for the average student, students get out of it what they put into it.

 

[whaler11]

Honestly I think the whole academic angle is over-blown. Any university is excellent for the average student, students get out of it what they put into it.

And the numbers show that your major is much more important to future earnings than your school.

 

[SC Husky]

And the numbers show that your major is much more important to future earnings than your school.

Yes, I would agree. Employers first want to know if a prospective candidate for employment has a degree. They then want to know what the degree is in. What college he/she went to doesn't play a significant part in whether they get the job. It's true, college is what you make of it.

 

[upstater]

Yes, I would agree. Employers first want to know if a prospective candidate for employment has a degree. They then want to know what the degree is in. What college he/she went to doesn't play a significant part in whether they get the job. It's true, college is what you make of it.

Depends on the college.

If you look up, say, Bucknell's numbers on payscale, the average grad makes more than grads with engineering degrees at an average state school.