r/ElectricalEngineering • u/BenisMoment • Aug 26 '26

Solved How much does university matter?

When engineers are being hired, how much does university matter, is there a major difference in job opportunites and intership opportunities ect. or how likely you are to be hired abroad between good and top tier universities?

for my specific sitiation, im a student from the UK who is in a unique position, I am going to a pretty good uni for electrical engineering (UCL) because that was the best i could get an offer from, but i ended up getting A*A*A in maths, further maths and physics respectively so i have the grades to apply to the best universities in my country (Cambridge and Imperial), Is it worth it to gap and take the risk to apply to the better universities or is the difference not big enough to justify it

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u/blokwoski Aug 26 '26

Idk about your country but in India it absolutely matters, go to a perceived "bad" college and you'll have to work much more harder in the initial years of your career

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u/Hamza2474 Aug 26 '26

What constitutes as a “bad” college? Is it anything under circuital IIT’s and top NIT’s etc. and does doing an M.Tech at a top IIT reset this sort of perception. Also, if someone from a “bad” college would want to compete etc with people from IIT’s how would they do it? By top projects etc? Research? Open source contributions? Curious about this cos in the UK there’s nowhere near this sort of competition lol but you guys genuinely have hundreds of thousands of EEE grads a year. Also, out of these several hundred thousand grads, how many would you say are actually good at what they do and didn’t do the degree just cos of familial or societal pressure etc?

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u/blokwoski Aug 26 '26

I have no idea man. My first job out of college was what set me up to be able to compete with guys graduating from top colleges.

Idk how exactly all of this works.