Is the prestige of a university important in a programmer's career?

Question

IT education

Now I am in my second year at a university, which is regularly included in various ratings as the top 5 of the country. I want to transfer to a "simpler" university, because study requires too much time and does not give useful knowledge in return, low efficiency, so to speak. Accordingly, I wonder if the prestige of a diploma affects a programmer's career? And, in principle, for a career, if, for example, later I decide to move from a programmer to some kind of management industry

Answer 1

Yes, an MIT degree is a good career boost.

study takes too much time and does not give useful knowledge in return

Quote from Wikipedia:

Study is a set of organized events aimed at gaining knowledge, skills, and gaining experience. The most qualitative result is observed when the student is interested in the object, phenomenon, property under study.

It is obvious that what you call study cannot be if it does not give useful knowledge.

if, for example, later I decide to move from a programmer to some management industry

First decide where to move, and then move.

Answer 2

One of the biggest opportunities open up by studying at a university is making valuable connections. A more prestigious university has a better selection of contacts and, accordingly, a greater potential for connections.

Answer 3

Now I am in my second year at a university, which is regularly included in various ratings as the top 5 of the country. I want to transfer to a "simpler" university, because study requires too much time and does not give useful knowledge in return, low efficiency, so to speak.

How did you define it?
A simpler university will make you strain less, which means you develop less, which means you will grow into a dumber person. THEN it will be difficult to catch up.

Accordingly, I wonder if the prestige of a diploma affects a programmer's career?

Domestic - little.
But your head is very influential, which is now not so much gaining knowledge as working on tasks.

And, in principle, for a career, if, for example, later I decide to move from a programmer to some kind of management industry

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Answer 4

IMHO, in the current period of the 21st century, it is not so important where you got your diploma from, and whether there is one at all. Rather, a greater emphasis is placed on the presence of real experience and knowledge. The diploma itself, in my opinion, faded into the background.
I don’t presume to speak for the IT market in all countries, but at least where I worked, they looked more at existing cases than at the presence of a “crust”.