Something else that comes into play is the fact that a lot of different business/industries are college specific. I know when Greenwood Mills was a big thing back in the day almost all of their management people graduated from either Clem5on or Furman. One reason obviously was because both those schools had textile specific programs. But it was more than that. Once a majority of the management are grads of a particular school they tend to lean toward hiring kids that graduated from that school. That's the way it was with the Clem5on and Furman kids coming into the work force. They were recruited by Greenwood Mills/Self.
Abney mills, which was bigger than Self's mills but wasn't as visible in SC due to their having most of their mills in Virginia, Alabama, Mississippi and North Carolina, tended to lean more toward University of Virginia grads.
It was also that way when I worked at Westinghouse, now Eaton Corp. Almost all of Westinghouse's management were Pitt grads. Their corporate offices were in Pittsburgh. Once the company moved a lot of facilities down here and some time had passed (older managers retiring) they shifted to Georgia Tech. That particular industry uses a lot of ME's and EE's so at first they began hiring a lot of GT grads, as those guys got established and started hiring others they sort of naturally went to their alma mater (nourishing mother)to hire new people. My wife goes to GT every years and does interviews with soon to graduate ME's & EE's. GT is also her alma mater
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