It doesn't matter unless you are a lawyer or doctor.or maybe want to get a PhD for research. Mostly lawyers because their firms can use the school as advertisement.
I work in InfoSec, make 150k already and went back to get a master's in CS from some school called University of Illinois Springfield. I'm 1/3 done. It's one of those schools where you really only get what you put into it, and the class choices are severely limited but you can pick all the classes you want.
They did just get a grad level algorithms course which is cool. I'm also taking ML, Deep learning, Practical AI for InfoSec and a few other interesting classes. Grad CS is is pretty lame everywhere as far as what you can pick. Top tier schools will have more classes on genomics and bio related stuff, or offer an entire semester on studying specific types of algorithms and also have more theoretical courses and shit for if you want to get a PhD and do research somewhere.
Its only for "requires master's degree" checkbox but also because I have 1 year of GI Bill left and didn't want to let it go to waste.
I've never seen any anybody get hired because of the clout of their school. I've interviewed people who had ivy league schools on their resume for CS and I didn't hire them. I've seen plenty of resumes with top tier schools listed, but all a hiring person cares about is experience and how well you do on the interview.
>>11986017>>>11985764 (OP)>CS people with a masters almost universally are incapable of writing software and often get passed over. Seriously. Companies don't want to pay you more for being incompetent.Where I work they prefer a masters for nearly all IT positions. That said, Interviewed some people with "Masters in Cybersecurity" and they didn't know shit. Unless you have experience nobody will be interested. It's a long hard road, but IT is great because you can give yourself experience in a lot of areas.
