People need to pull back on some of these overhyped assumptions. yes, UM over the last decade has made huge strides in it's academic ranking. Now it's right around the 50 mark. That's commendable, but let's not get carried away. It's not like UM has the national reputation of schools that open doors based on the name alone -- ie Ivy League, Stanford, Cal Tech, Military Academies, Duke, etc........
What is FSU? around 100? that difference is essentially negligible on a "job resume." The vast majority of prospective employers are not just going to write off the FSU candidate, bc of the school. They're going to look at the kid's major, grades, job experience, and extracurricular activities. in some respects, the lesser-ranked state school might open more doors, just because they have more graduates out there doing the hiring, and might have a bias towards students from their own school.
This post is insanely stupid. We're comparing academics, then lets JUST COMPARE ACADEMICS.
No one is comparing Miami to the Ivy League, but how about we compare PRIVATE SCHOOL versus PUBLIC SCHOOL? Miami academics and FSU academics are really different and it has nothing to do with rankings according to USNews. Class size, program strength, private v. public, name brand recognition and academic prestige all favor Miami.
UM might not have the reputation of Duke but people know it is a good private school, does anyone have anything nice to say about FSU? It is a FSU academics we're comparing Miami too, not the IVY Leagues.
"Insanely stupid." Let's take this step-by-step, since apparently you can't read. I responded to this post: "If for whatever reason football doesn't fall through, a degree from Miami looks a **** of a lot better on a job resume." You conveniently failed to include that statement in your reactionary strawman post, that also contained a couple unsupported bull**** rah rah assumptions.
I was not "comparing academics," the strawman argument you pulled out of your ***. I certainly was not comaring UM or FSU to the Ivy League, Stanford, etc... i was addressing the unbelievably absurd and unsupported assertion that a degree from UM looks a "**** of a lot better" on a job applicant's resume. but if you agree with that statement, pls enlighten us w/ some data to show that a resume w/ a UM degree blows an FSU resume out of the water.
I stand by my statement that the school name itself -- when you get past the heavy hitters, including the Ivy leage, among others -- the school name, standing alone, means little, if anything. What matters is how you performed relative to other studens, in combination with your work history, and extracurricular activities. As i said, in some respects there could be an advantage to the big state schools, just because so many more of their alumni are out there populating human resource departments.
