Best College Or University for Bachelors, Masters or PhD? It Depends...

Jonathan, a student pursuing a masters degree in physics at San Jose State University, shares his thoughts on if it matters where you obtain your bachelors degree (as opposed to a masters or PhD).

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[fenrir270]

Theres's definitely a difference between engineering or physics at MIT and San Jose State... Even if we assume that the undergraduate education is the same (which it isn't) the odds of getting into a top grad school are significantly higher for an MIT grad than a San Jose State grad. Consider the fact that it is extremely difficult to progress up (that is to say go to a significantly better grad school than undergrad) Even for the minority who accomplish this, why give yourself a handicap?

[DeJach]

@loveofphysics I don't know why your comment got flagged as spam. I'm in full agreement here that teaching quality isn't necessarily correlated with the prestige of the school, but it is an axis to compare undergrad programs which contradicts your point that they are all equivalent.

[themaggaman]

AWESOME F'IN VIDEO!!!!

That's definitely somethings I was wondering and it's good to hear feedback on it.

[GollaGandaLova]

Is Economics a good degree?

[Ayohima]

yes it doeas matter. No one in my highschool was from a CSU. Alll were from US Davis or UC San Jose. Undergrad. wwith only a bachellors........it matters.

[Montyfiable]

What job can you get with a physics degree? Sounds useless unless you want to be a teacher.

[AlexPanzerADT]

Dude, I just want a well-paying job!

[fenrir270]

@TheHobgoblyn 2. Even if we were to assume your community college had courses that were better than those at MIT, going to MIT drastically improves chances of being excepted to a prestigious grad school. The speaker in the video stresses the importance of grad school, so I don't see how going to a good undergrad school wouldn't be important (unless you failed to get accepted).

[fenrir270]

@TheHobgoblyn Whether this is true about your community college or not, that still was not the point as was making. I don't know where you received your undergrad degree, but I am well aware of the fact that community colleges can in some instances at top schools like U of I increase odds of admission.

1. I'm not sure what you mean by Ivy League equivalent, Ivy League just refers to 8 old, prestigious colleges in NE US, there are many non Ivy League schools that are better suited for science

[fenrir270]

@TheHobgoblyn 300k vs. 30k? MIT avg. indebtedness at graduation: $15,228 SJS avg. indebtedness at graduation: $9,483

Also consider that on avg. in related fields of engineering the MIT grad pay can be as high as 20k extra per year depending what sites you use to compare.

[TheHobgoblyn]

@skyzefawlun Are any of those advantages actually worth the extra costs if you are paying out-of-pocket when you get right down to it though? You are going to pay $300,000 instead of $30,000 to have a better chance at getting a job that pays $5,000 more a year?

[TheHobgoblyn]

@alienkishorekumar How many years have you worked in HR? Can you point to any statistics that demonstrate this to be the case?

The only company I have ever heard of being highly discriminatory towards people based on which college they attended was Facebook.