“I’ve heard that once you are in a career field, that nobody cares where you went to college.”
Well, at least insofar as my career was concerned, having an engineering degree from one of the top Engineering Schools in the country was definitely a door opener for the positions I sought. Several companies wanted to review my college transcripts to see just how good a student I actually was. But some accepted the fact of my graduation as evidence of my understanding of my field.
I colleccted a J school degree at Iowa.
Then moved on to selling coal and heavy oil...
I would think that an Engineering degree in fields that are extremely challenging still means a lot.