For a majority of graduates, that's correct. Skills and confidence in your skills are king. With enough resilience you can get extremely far. If you go in with a mentality of your grades/school being a carte-blanche for career advancement, people won't trust you. And when people don't trust you (and you haven't yet demonstrated wizard-like skills) ... Mr(s) Engineer, guess what will happen.

I agree that a degree can only get you so far. Applications of knowledge, experience, and skill are what really matter in the long run. Unfortunately, those can only be attained through hard work and dedication. Organizations don't care if you have a degree; they care if you can solve their problem.

Also in school you don't really have the time to full understand something, you only do the bare minimum understanding to pass or ace your classes, and even acing a class doesn't mean you have a good grasp. You just manage to do well on the exam problems you were tested on. After you earn your degree you have to go back and review all your material from the beginning and leave no stone unturned in your understanding every little conceptual detail.

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Student with high gpa doesnt think gpa matters lol Try putting a low gpa on your resume and see how many call backs you get. HR doesn't care about skills they dont even know what skills engineers should have.

Hey i am from india i couldn't make into tier 1 college of the nation (indian institute of technology ). Could you please tell me what are the things i should keep in mind so that when i graduate, i be as good as the students from the higher tier college or maybe better than them.

Nope. I like the line of thinking and I would like to agree. Here is the flaw: your cover letter and resume will usually be pre-screened by people who A) don't understand the actual job duties and requirements and B) don't want to expend any more effort than they have to. Everyone involved has other things they need to do too. When a manager in a corporation wants to fill a position, he will go to HR. HR personnel are not engineers. HR will want a checklist of items (a score card) from the manager. If you don't satisfy that score card sufficiently, the engineering manager will never hear your name let alone see your resume. It's not dumb, it's a time management issue. Unfortunately, many resumes will be sent in, yet the hiring manager will only want to talk to maybe 4 people. There will be more than 4 candidates with that degree. Source: I'm a key person in my company's current efforts to find a new engineering employee.

Hello Ali, I currently a 26 year old journeyman electrician. I think I have a pretty grip on electrical theory. Will my electrical background be beneficial in achieving a Batchelors’ in electrical engineering. Thank you in advance!

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Click bait and cherry picking. You are misinforming your viewers to gain attention or you probably ran out of ideas. You choose to compare a highly skilled person (no degree) with a low skilled person (with degree)? That is two independent variables, a high schooler knows the difference Try comparing two equally skilled persons, one with and other without degree.