History Qualifications?

[Furious Mental]

If you seek a job in a place where no one knows anything about Australian universities (which would be anywhere other than Australia) then obviously it won't make a difference which university you went to. On the other hand if you seek a job within Australia you will face the associated preconceptions. Certainly where I live employers in certain professions will give a graduate more consideration for a job based simply on the fact that they went to the university that is the city's oldest and hardest to gain entry to. In some cases this is not unfair because some of its faculties are much better than those at other universities. If you're after an academic job (which seems more likely if you study ancient history) then it helps simply to have gone to a university that is known in the academic community to have a quality history faculty with expert staff, of which Sydney is one. On the other hand as far historians are concerned a BA from James Cook University in Queensland is an unknown quantity because JCU has no separate history faculty.