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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]As a hiring manager, I do not care much about rankings.[/b] Top few might be better, but my experience is that what really matters for on the job performance -- so what I mostly care about when hiring -- are:

Which specific degree?
Which specialty within that degree?
Did the student take the rigorous upper-level in-major courses?
What concrete skills do they bring?
If they did a senior project, what was it?

ABET sets a high floor. In my experience, almost all engineering programs are rigorous. No one accidentally gets an engineering degree. It takes a lot of hard work, even for the bright capable students.

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C'mon now.  If you work for a major engineering recruiter and I mean a real player, you know darn well there are certain schools that are targeted for recruiting because they produce the best.  If you work in the field, you already know this and the schools that are targeted.  If you work for just a company that hires engineers and not a real player,  then this might not make sense to you. I get that.[/quote]

I’m wondering which schools those are?  If you know?
I have a friend that is director of r & d at a major manufacturer that you have definitely heard of, and another that is head of a  lab at a major pharma company.  Both engineers that do hiring.  They basically were like PP and said they care less about the school and more about what the student did at the school.  [/quote]

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