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usually companies hire graduates based on what they can offer to the company...but it is also known that many alumni's who have executive positions in large companies tend to hire students who graduated from the same college/ university!
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RESEARCH IN MOTION (RIM, blackberry maker) USUALLY HIRES WATERLOO GRADS
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your level of post secondary is definetly a factor..and i agree they usually tend to hire graduates from that particular university so that's an advantage .
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It depends on where you want to be employed. I think if you've got relative education in your field from a school that's well known for that field, it'll be useful.
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Well it depends on the employers, some employers dont event care if you didnt study ther associated field of work. As for which university you went to, I really don't think it matters.
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saheldarya wrote:RESEARCH IN MOTION (RIM, blackberry maker) USUALLY HIRES WATERLOO GRADS Certainly they hire lots of Waterloo grads, it's a big school with good CS and Engineering programs located in the same city as most of RIM's operations. But I know they send recruitment people around to Acadia once a year or so, and I've known a couple people who have done co-op's/internships there and at least one who got hired on full time. Keep in mind I'm talking about a school that has about 25 people graduating from CS in a year, not hundreds.
 
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The university matters, but so do other things, like volunteer work, experiance, if you did a co-op type thing in the area, those will all help too
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It's more your grades and work experience. The university you went to will matter very little when you get out into the real world.
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aibrean wrote:It's more your grades and work experience. The university you went to will matter very little when you get out into the real world. sorry i dont mean any offense, but that is a dumb assumption. anyone can get good grades at a crap university? bell curving, scaling, yadda yadda. a 'reputation' is not built overnight. the reputation of your school is based on past graduates that have done great things and therefore reflect on the quality of education at the school. I dont want to be biased because I am from waterloo, but comparing my school's engineering program with UBC (im from vancouver and my friends go there) and crappy schools around there, mine is so much better and when I graduate I know what kind of training future grads will get depending on what school they came out of. maybe for political sci and phil it doenst matter but for engineering and practical skills, it does.
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Bottom line, yes, especially for business.
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I would have to argue against that.
In business, it's about WHO you know, now WHAT you know. The power of networking - you will understand that very soon.
A good degree helps, but its your network that drives your success!
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in the words of master T:
I pity them fools
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xfl300 wrote:I would have to argue against that.
In business, it's about WHO you know, now WHAT you know. The power of networking - you will understand that very soon.
A good degree helps, but its your network that drives your success! That's one of the main reasons that going to a top school helps. They have the strongest almuni networks...
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Would Carleton be one of the top-tier when it comes to 'liberal arts'? I know it's more top-mid-tier at best in national Macleans rankings (*cough* biased! *cough*), but is it considered better for say, English? Meh, I don't care anyway. I just wanted to learn in Ottawa, and I will be, and I am happy for that 
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SwobyJ wrote:Would Carleton be one of the top-tier when it comes to 'liberal arts'? I know it's more top-mid-tier at best in national Macleans rankings (*cough* biased! *cough*), but is it considered better for say, English? Meh, I don't care anyway. I just wanted to learn in Ottawa, and I will be, and I am happy for that Carleton's programs in Journalism and Public Affairs are very highly regarded. For English I don't think they are anything special. I'm not one to focus on reputation though, and I don't think the Maclean's rankings measure much that's useful.
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"The 'K' in Carleton stands for Quality!"
the quote says it all.
Waterloo Math/CA or MacMaster Health Science...
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vancouverasian wrote:aibrean wrote:It's more your grades and work experience. The university you went to will matter very little when you get out into the real world. sorry i dont mean any offense, but that is a dumb assumption. anyone can get good grades at a crap university? bell curving, scaling, yadda yadda. a 'reputation' is not built overnight. the reputation of your school is based on past graduates that have done great things and therefore reflect on the quality of education at the school. I dont want to be biased because I am from waterloo, but comparing my school's engineering program with UBC (im from vancouver and my friends go there) and crappy schools around there, mine is so much better and when I graduate I know what kind of training future grads will get depending on what school they came out of. maybe for political sci and phil it doenst matter but for engineering and practical skills, it does. I agree with what everyone has been saying regarding networking. The only reason that Waterloo trumps all the other engineering schools from Ontario is because they have a great alumni base for you to work off of. Not to mention the coop program that will get you out there networking with people in the industry. The quality of education in Ontario, I think is very similar. Engineering is engineering, especially in undergrad. Once you get up to grad studies, the facilities at the university will play a factor. I would be careful calling all the other schools crappy, engineering is accredited in Ontario so everyone is learning the same thing. It's the size of the coop program at Waterloo that sets it apart... but most schools have coop nowadays anyway. Get off your waterloo high horse.
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Well if you go to the US, that's pretty much the deciding factor from what I hear.
What university you graduate from is one of the most important things when getting hired in the US
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In general, No.
Take this from someone thats already graduated.
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