Ali_Baba
VIP Member
Name brand degree is still useful.
A local college degree will get you an interview in the area or state but a degree from Ivy League or similar will get you an interview anywhere in the country.
But it only matters for the first job. After that, employers focus more on experience.
A name brand is still useful many years after graduation, it is not always about work experience. An academically challenging institution with a challenging degree is an indication raw academic ability to demonstrate the ability to learn and demonstrate that outside of the randomness of professional careers and work experience. That raw ability never goes away. A first from a redbrick in the UK(ie Ivy League) is worth more than than the same from one of the former polytechnics here in the UK, to see the potential of an individual and help forms an overall picture of the individual.



