But when I say "education matters," that doesn't mean that a top-10 engineering school matters. We want to know that they have studied, what they've studied, and how those studies apply to what we're selecting them to do. Where they studied is, again, merely a tiebreaker for students with otherwise similar qualifications.
We don't see too many, though, because when the first payments on many thousands of dollars of high-interest, unforgivable student debt come due, you don't want to be working on the help desk.
Again, we're not everybody. But we are everywhere, because there are a lot more companies like us.
Some people have already pointed out a few obvious flaws in the set of rankings under discussion. I figure that a generic statement about flawed methodology is plenty, given that this is well-trodded ground. Much like the curvature of the earth, the flaws in college rankings are well-established fact that I assume we can accept without lengthy discussion. If you'd like some reading:
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/4-reasons-to-ignore-us-news-college-rankings/http://www.businessinsider.com/best-college-rankings-are-flawed-2016-10https://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/18/opinion/sunday/why-college-rankings-are-a-joke.html?mcubz=0https://www.theatlantic.com/educati...world-report-em-college-rankings/279103/https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2011/02/14/the-order-of-thingshttps://www.csmonitor.com/Business/Robert-Reich/2015/0914/Why-college-rankings-are-unfair
