re: Are out of state colleges worth it?

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With the same major? Nope
no employer has ever cared where I got my degree from

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I'll give a direct example. If someone is going to be an attorney and is interested in the ~$250k starting salary offered by Biglaw then they pretty much have to graduate from a T-14 law school to even get interviewed. In the last 15 years my firm has only interviewed 5 or 6 non-T14 applicants and only one of them was offered a position and they were a non-traditional student with an engineering degree and work experience relevant to one of our departments. While you can get into a T-14 law school from a state school it isn't easy. Schools are often about getting your foot in the door and it is important for some jobs and not so important for other jobs.

A lot of people can learn as much from the public library as they can in college but there are certain levels of certain jobs that are almost impossible to get if you don't have the right college credentials.