Hey Kevin, To the degree that one cares about a university education, yes, the specific institution matters, and I'd probably (where fairly or not) rank U of U higher than U of Phoenix.
However, when we hire programmers, and maybe this is unique to and fortunate for programmers, I rarely notice the university and I'd guess that's true for most places. Only about 1/3 of our senior programmers over the life of the company have even had computer science degrees; most are self taught and they're just good at what they do. They have great portfolios, visible work we can see in the wild, and/or open source contributions or their own projects on Github. When we've hired *interns* we've leaned heavily on the university. E.g., "This guy is going to school at Tufts. That must mean something!" But after programmers have real-world experience, whether outside of school or after school, the school doesn't matter much. Richard > 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
