Usually when applying for a course, there is some rather simple generic quote saying something like… “This course was really good, I liked the teachers and the equipment available”. This generally doesn’t give you too much information straight away, but if you actually google the person that said the quote, you learn a lot about the university.
I did exactly that, I searched for – Firstname + surname “University name”. This basically gave me everything I needed to know about that certain person. From this, I knew what type of job they had got and basically any trace of work they had done in that course. Sounds a little stalkerish. But you can learn a lot more about the university by the person who had just graduated. So the person I searched up had a rather poor portfolio, didn’t seem to have a big internet footprint and from their public profile seems to be working in a supermarket. Not exactly what you look for when applying for a master’s degree in my opinion.
It’s a little over the top I know, but the prices that degrees cost these days spending 5 minutes searching up someone could save you a huge amount of money in the long run. I know that individual students have different abilities, but it does give you a rough idea of the standards that the course teaches.
Hopefully I haven’t shot myself in the foot by doing this post. Then again my e-footprint is rather huge and technology rated. I come across my blog accidentally sometimes when trying to search up things to do with my field. I can take this a little further and just mention that employees check your online profiles too, so make sure that you know everything that’s out there about you.
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