JCCR90

JCCR90 t1_j8wdds1 wrote

Reply to comment by mommy2brenna in Community Colleges, State Universities, and UConn by BobbyBuzz008

Don't want to offend anyone but it's night and day in my experience. One uconn alumni we hire in private equity fund accounting is easily worth two from the regional schools in as far as productivity and room for promotion goes.

The discrepancy is even more pronounced 5,10,15 years after school. All the uconn hires who've left our firm are Assistant Controllers, Controllers, Directors, Vice President, CFO now and the regional school grads hit a cap or had a much much longer road to the same promotions.

Does this mean there aren't superstars at the regional schools, absolutely not, but if we're talking about the average 💯.

I would much rather be taken care of a doctor or nurse who did their undergrad or nursing program at uconn for sure.

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JCCR90 t1_j8wc1th wrote

Reply to Community Colleges, State Universities, and UConn by BobbyBuzz008

UCONN is research university as well so much of their research funding is captured in the per pupil figure which is misleading.

Also throw in the subsidy for housing costs. UCONN houses most of its students while regional schools are largely commuter students.

With all this being said though it makes total sense to spend more for the elite state school because school rankings matter. I would wager uconn alumni drive more value to state economy than regional university and community colleges do. There's a reason why average SAT scores differ the way they do between CT state schools.

We've hired several fund accountants over the years at our firm and there's an incredible difference between those we hire from uconn vs southern/western. My 2c for what it's worth.

Edit-for clarity and as a factoid I pulled the below from US Weekly

Southern Connecticut SAT range is 900-1130, 25th - 75th percentile.

UCONN SAT range is 1230-1430, same percentile range

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