As an employer, would you look more favorably upon a comm. degree from the U. of Pittsburgh or UC San Diego?

Question

I am considering transferring from the University of Pittsburgh to the University of California San Diego. All sports and such aside, as a potential employer, which would you look upon most favorably? If you would be indifferent, please explain, I am just trying to make the best decision for my future. I understand that many other factors will be involved with employment, but I am currently just researching UC San Diego (please do not tell me to research both schools, because I understand that).

Note: I will be going for my major in communications (most likely focusing on sales and marketing).

Thank you!

Answer 1

employers in CA will like UCSD better and employers back east will like Pitt better.

If you have a particular employer in mind [P&G? Lever Brothers?] ... see which of the two univs they recruited at last spring [ask the placement office].

Answer 2

Generally, having a degree shows you meet the minimum qualifications for the job, and motivates the human resources (HR) person to read your cover letter. Getting your cover letter read will allow you to demonstrate your ability to communicate and share some experience that will be of benefit for their company.

From the stack of cover letters, the HR person will select 10 or so, and give them to the person who needs the employee. Up to this point, the name of the school may not make any difference to the folks who've read your material.

If I were the HR person, I would not want to confess that I don't know the difference between the education at one school vs. the other school. Even if I did know a bit about each school and the programs offered, I wouldn't know if you were a student who applied yourself to your studies, took the easiest route on assignments, or just majored in parties.

When you apply for a job, most employers want to know that you stuck to a program and got a degree - and a good GPA is an indicator of how well you applied yourself. Then, the employer is going to want you to describe what you did while you were in school - did you go out for sports? or mentor younger students? How did you sell yourself? How can you apply your sales experience to their company.

Whatever route you choose, try to write your cover letter to show you know how make your experiences while in college relate to the job you want in the future. And if you flipped burgers, make an angle to know the value of supporting yourself.

Get some experience applying what you learn so you'll have some experience when applying for the jobs you want to get in the future.

Before you incur a lot of debt (in transferring schools) look to see how much money you'l be making, and if you can pay the debt off in a reasonable period of time. Also see what the minimum number of credits you need at the new university. Most require you take at least 2 years. If you are closer than that where you are, that is a significant issue.

The place on the application where you write your major and education experience takes up about 2 lines. Figure out what to put on the rest of the page that will sell what you have learned and they won't care (much) about the school you attended.

good luck

Answer 3

I had to handle the comparable difficulty when I have been given commonplace to Cal and u.s.. I chosen u.s. and that i don't be apologetic approximately it... u.s. has an extremely good bio branch. despite the fact that, there is little to no partying at u.s. and u.s. does not extremely have any activities communities. My element is that u.s. does not have that plenty to furnish socially... yet once you leave campus there is a lot to do!! Southern California is in basic terms so attractive!! additionally, in case you're going into biochem there are different activity opportunities in SD b/c there are a lot of pharmaceutical and biotech businesses right here.