Quote Originally Posted by BananaStand View Post
there are over 4000 colleges in the USA alone. Who could possibly keep all that straight? If you didn't go to one of the top 5% who have household names....it's pretty much all the same.
I'm not suggesting an employer should memorize every college name and the value of a degree from each. What i was getting at is this - isn't there a place you can find an independent evaluation of a college? Like a ranking system?

Beyond that, how do people decide where to go? They must have some idea of which places are better than others, apart from the top 5%.