I've been involved in a lot of hiring where I work, for both PHP and other development-related positions, and the consensus here is that it matters. It's not usually a deal breaker, but we're much more sure of what we're getting in a candidate who did his work at the Univ. of Utah, or UVU, or Neumont, or BYU, than we are about someone from a school we don't know well. In particular, schools that have more of a "job training" feel to them like a Univ. of Phoenix, or a Stevens Henager, or ITT Tech, sometimes don't mean as much to us as educational programs where we know they had plenty of theory and practiced creative problem solving.
The school you attended also is less of a factor the longer you've been out of school. It means more before or soon after graduation than it does after you've been in the workforce for 5 or 10 years or longer. Then job experience speaks a lot more loudly than school background. My two cents, for what it's worth... Thanks, Mac On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 9:18 AM, Kevin Jensen <[email protected]> wrote: > I have a quick question. For those that hire, how important is the > institution that a prospective employee received his or her degree? By that > I mean does an applicant that received a BS from the University of Utah > seem more desirable than someone who received their degree from University > of Phoenix? > > Thanks in advance! > > _______________________________________________ > > UPHPU mailing list > [email protected] > http://uphpu.org/mailman/listinfo/uphpu > IRC: #uphpu on irc.freenode.net > -- Mac Newbold [email protected] 801-694-6334 <http://www.codegreene.com> _______________________________________________ UPHPU mailing list [email protected] http://uphpu.org/mailman/listinfo/uphpu IRC: #uphpu on irc.freenode.net
