I’m transferring to an Average college.
I can’t speak for other professions, and it might help that there’s more demand than supply for nurses in most places, but nobody in hiring has ever seemed to care what school I went to. I went to a small private school, and I passed the same certification exam and have the same professional license as anyone who went to an ivy league school or a state school. 🤷
I went to a smaller university, which is somehow worse that University of [State]. Maybe Ivy League vs not matters to some boy’s clubs, but honestly it’s not the piece of paper that matters, it’s how you use your time during your education.
I’m not going to say I’m a paragon saint of schooling, I hardly went to a lot of my classes and I cheesed through my calc class by just using Patrick JMT on YouTube to understand how to do my homework. BUT I did pay attention in my main courses and applied for tons of internships when I had enough knowledge under my belt. After my first internship ended, I was personally recommended by my prof for two more, and he tried to hook me up with a job after I got my degree.
A little effort goes a long way. And being honest about your abilities goes a long way, too. Saying hey prof, I just can’t understand this concept, can I come over during office hours will get you plenty of points in their favor typically.
So, yea, tl;Dr it’s not the school you go to, it’s how you use it.
As long as it’s accredited, nobody really cares
Yeah was worried I went to my state’s university at first instead of a “good” school. No one in companies care, the only ones who care are those in academia. Now I hire people and you’re exactly right, I look for a degree, I don’t care about from where.
There is a barrier out there where people need a degree to be hired.
Assuming you can graduate, any college is better than no college.
In my experience there is no downside at all to community college.
The class sizes are low, the price is low, and the level of instruction can be very very high.
Then you transfer to a 4 year college later.
And if you get straight As in community college, you’ll be able to get in almost anywhere you apply…
It depends what you want to do
Community college can make networking with professors harder. However considering the laughably small percentage of people who ever do undergrad research this doesn’t matter for most people.
My experience from community college was quite a mixed bag. Some of the professors were amazing and genuinely loved to teach, and I benefited so much from those classes. And then some professors just seemed bitter that they weren’t at a university and made their classes miserable. I even had a few classes “taught” by someone that didn’t even have a bachelor’s (through a technicality where the dean proctored the actual exams). Overall, I learned enough and got the degree, and I was able to break into software engineering with just an associate degree and no debt. So worth it in the end!
Personally know ppl who went to hard school and have same job and pay as those from party schools. Pick a school based on the factors within the time you are at the school. Afterwards at least in my experience unless you went to ultra prestigious school no one cares in job market.
i know the party schools near me, but if you go to one half way across the country I’ve never heard of it and so I can’t judge you.
What?
Even going to community college is better than no college.
More important than what college you go to is trying to figure out what you want to do after college.
For a new hire, I’ll take courses/research/extracurriculars specialized around what I do over university titles every single day.
You definitely don’t have to find the answer year 1, or even year 2, but it should be your goal to articulate how you want to apply your degree before you graduate. The more moves you make in that direction will significantly help you get there.
Completely depends on your goals and finances
WTF is an average college?
Probably like a regional public university. Not a well-known public with a big sports program, or a fancy private Ivy League, just a smaller university that primarily serves locals.
A college where problematic men go to meet Indian women.
If it’s OU, ‘no college’ is better.
Assuming you get value from the money you are spending.
No lack of people who have degrees and do work in completely unrelated fields.
That if assumes something wrong. Some degrees will make you worth a lot more - doctors and ingineers skew the averages. Pick a degree in history or teaching and odds compare to someone who became a plumber without college and things can be different. History can still be better - but only because who you know matters and you can meet the right person - but odds are you won’t
Who says college is better than no college?
What are your metrics?
Your questions are all binaries:simplistic, juvenile.
Like your question about dating and race: simplistic, bigoted and racist.
