walty12 said

fiu_panther said

walty12 said

AlexFAU06 said

1 tier
UF #49 / UM #51 / FSU #102

3 tier
USF #170 / UCF #180

4 tier
FIU #227 / FAU #241

I would not mind to be a 3 tier school. We are very young. It takes time, but that does not mean FAU is a bad school. You get a decent education with good facilities.
I don't regret attending FAU.

GO OWLS!!!

I dont even feel like looking at it but there is no way FSU and UM are 1st tier schools.

I don't know about Florida State, but UM is definitely a Tier 1 university. Although I go to FIU and I'd like to see us as atleast tier 3, there's no denying UM's academic quality. They have a good med school (one of the best in the country) amongst other things. I don't want to sit here and praise the "U", because I support FIU, but I atleast have to acknowledge they are good.

Just an FYI, I know that I am getting old…but when I applied to schools in 2001 UM was a 3rd tier Undergrad University.

UM's a good school, no denying that. It's just too costly for the education. You can get a very similar education at a much much lower price at a place like UF.

Again, as much as we'd all like FAU to be Tier 1, it doesn't exactly mean what people think. It's more about resources than about the ability to impart information. Tier 1 schools are usually respected because the most motivated people go there so when they get out, they become respected alumni.

Harvard's a good example. If you read student reviews of the school, a lot of people mention that the professors give them the cold shoulder and are more interested in their research than teaching. Supposedly, students have to do most of their own learning there. But Harvard gets a lot of research money, so it's a good school, Harvard has a lot of respected Nobel faculty, so it's a good school, Harvard graduates people who eventually start up companies like Facebook, so it's a good school, etc etc

That's another reason why this Alumni Center was important. It gives students the chance to meet up with successful graduates and see, wow, if I work this hard then I can achieve this as well. I think there's some sentiment, both internal and external, that if you go to FAU you can't make much of yourself. Our alumni are astronauts, CFOs, surgeons, lawyers, judges, presidents of universities, founders of companies. The average FAU student doesn't really know that, though, and probably thinks they have to go to UF or FSU to make something of themselves.

Fear not, students. Although graduating from a well know college might open doors for you, going to a less than well known 4th tier school won't hold you back.

I graduated from FAU with a degree in accounting. I now work for a Fortune 100 company. The down side is I had to move here.

Once you get your foot in the door no one really gives a flip what college you graduated from. Some recruiters might be preferential to particular universities but once you land that job the door is opened to prove yourself.

If you got a great education from FAU and can demonstrate that on the job and can kick butt and take names, having a degree from a 4th tier university will not hold you back or work against you.   Much the same if you graduated from Harvard and didn't learn s@#$t (you cheated, your father paid off the professors, etc), that Harvard degree won't help you keep your job when you can't do the work.

illinoisowl said

Fear not, students. Although graduating from a well know college might open doors for you, going to a less than well known 4th tier school won't hold you back.

I graduated from FAU with a degree in accounting. I now work for a Fortune 100 company. The down side is I had to move here.

Once you get your foot in the door no one really gives a flip what college you graduated from.

Certainly. I do think you possess one of the handful of degrees that are actually employable in the field right out of undergrad. Accounting, education, engineering, journalism… I'm sure there are a couple of others.

I want to say nursing but I have an acquaintance whose wife graduated from FAU nursing and can't find a job to save her life. Hospitals and clinics are telling her that they want someone who has worked in the industry 3-5 years. So she has to work at Publix while sending out resumes to make ends meet.

owlcountry said

illinoisowl said

Fear not, students. Although graduating from a well know college might open doors for you, going to a less than well known 4th tier school won't hold you back.

I graduated from FAU with a degree in accounting. I now work for a Fortune 100 company. The down side is I had to move here.

Once you get your foot in the door no one really gives a flip what college you graduated from.

Certainly. I do think you possess one of the handful of degrees that are actually employable in the field right out of undergrad. Accounting, education, engineering, journalism… I'm sure there are a couple of others.

I want to say nursing but I have an acquaintance whose wife graduated from FAU nursing and can't find a job to save her life. Hospitals and clinics are telling her that they want someone who has worked in the industry 3-5 years. So she has to work at Publix while sending out resumes to make ends meet.

That is interesting. I thought RNs were in big demand due to a shortage.

To add something to my previous post. If an employer notices a trend in graduates from a particular university like they need less training, they have the necessary skills or lack the necessarty skills for the job, that would tend to influence them to either recruit more or less from that college. So, do a great job and it will open doors for other FAU grads.

The Atlanta office of national accouting firm KPMG recruits quite a bit from FAU. I've worked on audits with accountants from that office and they told me there are quite a few FAU graduates working for them.  So they come all the way from Atlanta to recruit at FAU.