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While the education is likely equal or better, college is also about starting your network, especially for those of us not going to traditionally elite schools.
by owenmarshall 6y ago
While the education is likely equal or better, college is also about starting your network, especially for those of us not going to traditionally elite schools.
Thinking about my personal career trajectory, my first job came from an internship set up by my university. A coworker from that job left and pulled me to my second, and when I left there it was because an old classmate referred me to a third.
Had I studied abroad and returned home I would have lacked that network, and that feels like a risk.
- vmception 6y agoYou would have a different network if you had studied abroad. Nothing you did in your university was guaranteed and was just as much of a risk. I don't think non-elite schools offer a noteworthy network, especially for computer science or IT. There is elite, and then there is everywhere else that's accredited where you just need a sheet of paper with the correct degree name on it.