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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Americans will know very little about foreign universities outside of the obvious ones like Oxford and Cambridge.  Conversely, I've lived abroad and I find they generally have little knowledge of U.S. universities outside of a select few.  That said, recruiters generally have a broader view and they can certainly access rankings resources.[/quote]

Recruiters are generally pretty idiosyncratic in school preference and aren't usually looking for global rankings to guide them. In my first job out of college I worked in recruiting for a F100 company. My boss gave me very rough instructions on how to screen resumes: American universities (in any event NEVER Indian ones), specifically ones I had heard of. I probably would have promoted a resume from, say, Oxford or Cambridge, because even though it's foreign I knew it was good, but the company relied on my familiarity with schools as a 22 yr old, and I didn't go hunting around for UK/EU school rankings. [/quote]

Because you’re never going to get fired for hiring the grad of a well known, familiar school. It’s risk allocation on the part of the person doing the hiring. Of course it leaves out those kids who are qualified but went to somewhere unknown. The recruiter is taking a greater risk by doing this. [/quote]

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