This is not necessarily related to school; I met a Baruch undergraduate alumni at my stop to my local Chase Bank today. He noticed I attend Baruch College when he looked up my record. He told me that Newman Library wasn’t even built when he was there (Newman Library, built in 1994). He said he enjoyed his experience in Baruch College; he found his first job at a fair job hosted on campus.
The banker is actually one of the several people I came across this year who attended Baruch. My former coworker from a Little Italy restaurant I waitressed at this past summer attended Baruch as well. He is a full time waiter and I was part time. You might wonder why a Baruch college student became a waiter? Because he dropped out of Baruch. The piece of advice he gave me was- Don’t drop your schoolwork for the little money you seem to be making now, focus on studies for a good job in the future. Turning back is more difficult than anything.
I have found a couple of employees in Chase Bank who graduated from Baruch. Baruch’s business school is actually ranked like 20 something in the U.S. I guess paying less doesn’t always mean you get less out of it.