Which Uni or degree class

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I don't imagine this is written down anywhere per se, but which industries (their recruiters) would look at which Uni a candidate went to and which would just look for the best (with reason) degree class.

Engineering has been mentioned previously as an example of some Unis being strong in, or well regarded for.
IT, maybe, could be classed as one where which Uni doesn't matter so much?

I’d also add : for most major graduate schemes degree isn’t really relevant to the first sift. Candidates are usually sent online tests, maybe even video interview straight after submitting. The latter reviewed by an AI.

@IchabodCrane There is a lot more to IT than just programming jobs, but anyway.

@TizerorFizz

50/50 is heavily weighted towards RG. One great swallow does not a summer make.

It’s not perfect but way better than it use to be when applications were only accepted from candidates who had attended certain Unis and had a certain degree. Our challenge now is to encourage more candidates to apply from non RG Unis. We have similar problems in other countries where we have offices where the majority of candidates are from the equivalent of RG Unis.

I would look at the course rather than the university as a whole. You frequently find that the non-RG (Oxbridge is part of RG) universities have much better courses in particular subjects. In the Times Higher and Guardian league tables you can sift by subject and might well find that a relatively lowly former FE college delivers a top 10 course recognised globally, or has a unique specialism relating to the geography or some other feature of the area - e.g. maritime, tourism, sport, etc.

Thanks for all the replies. Although I wasn't explicit in the op, I was meaning graduate recruitment, not general recruitment, for those who may have replied saying the degree or Uni doesn't matter.

To summarise what I've gleaned so far:
It can depend on subject/industry.
It can depend on the recruiter's/firm's background.
Some subjects are covered by a small list of Unis, so some overall lower ranked Unis can rise to the top, e.g. Building/Surveying.
Some recruiters have location ties with Unis which makes them favourable in that area, Oxford Brookes in Motorsport, Maritime industry.
Law, and others, is more traditional, preferring (and sometimes exclusive to) RG. Caveat that with 16 of top 20 on CUG (overall ranking) are RG, so no surprise that the Law preferred Unis list mentioned above cites 75%-ish from RG.
Engineering, and others, may look for more practical graduates, and certain Unis provide more of this in their courses (with good ties to industry/placements), e.g. Sheffield.
Medical/Nursing/vocational - which Uni may not matter.
Some recruiters recruit blind so don't know which Uni.
Some Unis/courses offer something unique which may make a candidate stand out.

So, short answer, start with the subject ranking and see where you get to!

(Season. True. In fact by making SQE1 100% multiple choice with best first answer it might even require more not less skill at English (and by age 3 children in the UK already have a vast difference between them based on the number of words their parents use in conversation with them; never mind the impact if you are in one of the non UK 25 countries in which SQE1 were recently taken. May be they will change SQE1 from MCQ only to something like the new PGDL conversion course which is MCQ and traditional questions although if I were Kaplan which won the exam contract I would prefer to be feeding sheets through a machine to do the marking than have to pay loads of markers to mark written papers so money might play a part in any attempt to change SQE1).

There was someone on my PGCE who made me cringe whenever they opened their mouth, things like, "with my class we was looking at..."

Yes! Our senior copywriter (Barnsley born and bred) says "you was/we was", but she has an English degree, and writes correct grammar.

[quote stubiff]@IchabodCrane There is a lot more to IT than just programming jobs, but anyway.[/quote]
I know. I'm a software engineer, and my previous roles have included service management, product management, infrastructure and cybersecurity... need I go on?

The point was that uni does matter for certain roles. But you lumped 'IT' into a meaningless umbrella.

It's the same as saying someone 'works in retail'. People automatically jump to store staff but someone could be a buyer, quality assurance officer, etc etc.

@IchabodCrane
Ok, so we don’t have much IT representation so far. How would you divide the different roles or functions between Uni matters or just degree class matters, or none of it matters?