I was wondering if anyone had any insight about how severely graduate schools (or even employers, for that matter) look at the the name of the university on ones degree. As it stands now I'm doing fairly well (3.6 CGPA) with a very intensive curriculum but I can't shrug the feeling that any respectable graduate school will take one look at the name at the top of the degree and simply write me off. It's not that my current university is bad per se, but it's perennially ranked in the 2nd tier of the US News & World Report rankings and as such, it recieves virtually zero academic recognition. Would it be a good idea to transfer into a top 20 school? Even beyond the added benefit of name recognition has anyone transferred into a top school and felt the education to be somehow superior?
sorry for rambling on but I'm stressing out about all this...
sorry for rambling on but I'm stressing out about all this...