Engineering and nursing are two areas that if you don't go to a top school, it's okay..

[Anonymous]

You will find a job, correct? My know-it-all brother-in-law states this, he's in his 50's and doesn't except things have changed that requirements are more demanding. Other opinions?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You will find a job, correct? My know-it-all brother-in-law states this, he's in his 50's and doesn't except things have changed that requirements are more demanding. Other opinions?

Most people who go to college will find jobs, regardless of the level of school they attend. In some fields, including engineering, nursing, education, and some allied health fields the name on the diploma matters less than in some other fields such as law or investment banking.

[Anonymous]

You need to "accept" that it's not "except."

[Anonymous]

Medical school too.

[Anonymous]

My understanding about engineering school is that what matters is whether it's ABET certified.

[Anonymous]

Check engineering reddits pleny of unemployed recent engineering grads. No career is guaranteed via degree.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Check engineering reddits pleny of unemployed recent engineering grads. No career is guaranteed via degree.

Disagree. Especially for nursing. May not pay the highest or in the desired location, specialty etc but a nursing degree guarantees a job and same many healthcare affiliated fields. Same for teaching.

[Anonymous]

Nursing for sure. There is such high demand for nurses - and the travel nurses willing to work in difficult hospitals are making bank. I think this generally holds true for engineering as well. But I do think there is more differentiation in reality depending on schools when it comes to first jobs. The MIT, Princeton, Rice, Cornell, Stanford, and Georgia Tech engineering students likely had outstanding internships, which leads to better first job opportunities. But after that, no one cares. It's a very performance based field.

[Anonymous]

Doesn’t matter when the economy sucks

[Anonymous]

It depends. If one wants to work at the highest levels of Engineering(top tech consulting, tech startup culture, R&D that requires a PhD), then you need a top school especially in a down economy. School matters more when the job market is slower. Look what is happening to CS: hiring has significantly slowed and unemployment is up...at all but the prestigious names (top privates such as 6 of the ivies, stanford, CMU, MIT and very top publics, UCB, GT, Mich, UIUC...). The same group of schools produces the highest chance of top tier engineering jobs.

[Anonymous]

Engineering is about to be replaced by AI... a lot of basic nursing functions too, but high level stuff will survive.

[Anonymous]

I don’t know what the average starting salary is for nursing, but Penn nursing students supposedly are at like $125k for new grads.

Maybe that’s due to locational differences…but maybe that’s what all nursing grads make.

[Anonymous]

Top engineering firms only really actively recruit grads from the Top engineering schools. Not that other grads won’t eventually end up somewhere. They will just have a different path to get there.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Engineering is about to be replaced by AI... a lot of basic nursing functions too, but high level stuff will survive.

Lol

[Anonymous]

Nurses can graduate as an RN in 2 years from a community college.