From what I've seen...where your degree is from matters for either entry level positions for most jobs or for the highest level positions in scientific research.

If I'm a director looking for a Physicist to work on developing a Neutrino Measurement Apparatus...I'm going to look at someone with a PhD from Stanford, Cal Tech, Harvard, or Cornell before someone from Southern Miss or Delaware State.

Also...school rankings are fine...but it is the program rankings that really matter for what you are studying. Let's take Physics (since I mentioned it above)...here are the SEC program rankings for graduate Physics Programs:

13. Texas
38. Vanderbilt (t)
38. Florida (t)
47. aTm
55. Tennessee
73. LSU
78. Oklahoma
89. Georgia (t)
89. Kentucky (t)
105. Auburn (t)
105. MIZZOU (t)
113. USCe (t)
113. Bama (t)
136. Arkansas
146. Ole Miss (t)
146. MSU (t)

US News Top Graduate Schools - Physics Rankings

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Posted on 4/5/24 at 11:50 am to madmaxvol

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If I'm a director looking for a Physicist to work on developing a Neutrino Measurement Apparatus...I'm going to look at someone with a PhD from Stanford, Cal Tech, Harvard, or Cornell before someone from Southern Miss or Delaware State.

That level of hiring is way above me, but I'd be looking at published academic articles and studies.

Southern Miss has a great polymer engineering program. Snatched a few kids out of there to do some analysis, reconstruction, and surrogate testing. Kinda surprised that Southern Miss got into that considering Mississippi State's emphasis on engineering.

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