I had a thread in Chat earlier on to talk about the current fear I have over not meeting my looming deadlines for the current Master's degrees I'm studying.
I'm a mature student and the degree I'm studying is directly linked to the industry I work in. Though turns out my experience has only minimally helped and I find academia (or rather dissertation writing) a whole different thing altogether.
But anyway, my AIBU: My undergraduate degree was from a well-established Redbrick university some years ago but the current provider of my Master's degree is languishing somewhere in the top 50-100 Universities.
Did you select your Uni choices based on rank? Would you rule out a potential employee based on their University ranking? Has your degree helped, regardless of where it was from or has it worked against you?
Just curiosity really and more time wasting from me
AIBU?
To ask you if you think some degrees (from certain Universities) aren't worth the paper they're written on?
CarbonEmittingPenguin · 11/01/2016 17:38
Did you select your Uni choices based on rank?
No, but a little snobbishness may gave been involved 
Would you rule out a potential employee based on their University ranking?
No, not at all now that I've been through uni myself.
Has your degree helped, regardless of where it was from or has it worked against you?
It was essential, yes.
)I have a 1st class honours degree in a creative arts subject. I now work professionally in that area.
Never once has anyone been slightly interested in whether I even have degree before employing me. It's all about the visual work. That's pretty pointless!
With an under-grad degree, if you are going into some sort of graduate employment scheme, the prestige of the university has an impact from people who hire I've spoken to.
If you're doing an ology, and planning to go into the public sector in some way, no, it doesn't (again from speaking with recruiters)
If you're Oxbridge, not going down the "Oxbridge track", I think it can sometimes work against you, in that people think you're too privileged/stuck up/whatever and discriminate against you.
When it comes to MA study, the course itself is more important - and how it's valued in the field you want to go in to: which often doesn't correspond much/at all even with university rankings.
I couldn't do my job now (academia) without my degrees - but it's the one question that has never come up when we recruit people: we're not interested where they graduated from, or even what their grades were (we just care how many books they have eligible for the next cycle of research funding 
)
The job I did before, I also needed my degrees for, and wouldn't have been eligible without them: but no-one cared where they were from.
I think it depends what you are doing, and what you aspire to do, in all honesty.
And it's very, very difficult to get any kind of decent-ish job (by which I mean office-type professional-type job) without a degree: possible - but very hard, as the "degree" is the tickbox by which they whittle down numbers.
Sorry - total bold fail.
Should have gone to a tech college instead 
Fully-paid up Mickey Mouse degree holder from a university that only actually became a university in 2010 here
So far, when people at interviews have heard what degree I got, they sound interested and seem to approve because it was a very vocational course, based on understanding all aspects of the industry, employability skills, practical experience and also a huge emphasis on confidence and communication. It's opened a lot of doors for me already and I only graduated last year.
I start my Masters in September at a university and I have no idea how old it is or what its ranking is (Chester, if anyone is so inclined to prestige check it ) - the course seems perfect for me and at my interview the tutors seemed passionate about the subject and showed an interest in my research ideas, that's good enough for me
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This is such a controversial subject in our house. I have a 2:1 from a Russell group, DP has a first from an ex-poly. Same city. We have a bit of what you would call 'banter' about it . I went into primary teaching - which just required a degree, but at an interview the interviewing head mentioned they went to the same university and we chatted about it a bit. Don't know if that had any influence!
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