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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]To answer OP question, football schools Bama and Clemson are perceived as football schools, not as elite schools.  However, they are not without other known benefits, things like Bama scholarships, honors dorms, and in person classes.

[b]The reputation of a particular college somewhere out in the middle of the country isn't particularly important in the big picture.  What matters is the reputation among employers/grad schools and whether college reputation tends to be considered in the particular field of work.[/b]

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And even that is so dependent on your goals. “Employers” are not a monolith. If you want to work on Wall Street, sure a degree from Clemson probably isn’t going to do much for you. If you want a nice, well-paying, stable job in fields like business, education, engineering, etc. in South Carolina or other parts of the South (and lots of kids at Clemson DO want that, and literally could not care less what an employer on Wall Street would think of their degree) then Clemson is basically a golden ticket.

I graduated from JMU. Not exactly an elite school. But it is very well-regarded by the employers that I CARED ABOUT (my degree is in education and I wanted a general classroom position at a public school in NoVA) so that was that.[/quote]

None of what you said is true. I have friend that went to both Clemson and JMU working on Wall Street and there is a huge financial market  in Charlotte.[/quote]

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