This is a response to fellow classmate Oscar Hui’s Blog post: https://blogs.ubc.ca/oscarhui/2014/09/22/is-fame-is-the-name-of-the-game/
Oscar Hui argues that university name and fame does not matter in job hunting and the only reason that parents and highschoolers pay so much attention to university name is because of branding.
Although I agree that the university you attend does not define who you are there is some worth in the name; when I was applying for universities one thing I made sure to look at was the statistics for job employment. I am not alone in this as 66% of students rated future job employment as the first thing they looked at when the chose a university. If we compare two univeresities UBC and Carleton we see that UBC Sauder boasts that 94% of it’s BComm graduates are hired within 3 months, and in Carleton 89% in 6 months. 89% is nothing to laugh at, but in today’s economy where demand for jobs is much higher than the supply of jobs students are looking for any way to make themselves hirable and competitive.
Long gone are the days when “a university education is the ticket to a good job and a comfortable existence” (Macleans). As most economies do when they become richer and the people can afford a higher standard of living people are now looking for the best education they can afford. Going to university has become a norm, and fame has become the game, where fame is perceived to being better education and better jobs.