Is it good to emphasize that one obtained a PhD from a prestigious university I was wondering whether it is a good practice for someone to emphasize that he obtained his degree from a prestigious university by including the name of his university always after his title, something like:


  Name, PhD (Caltech)


I have seen this in few occasions, but felt that it could be a bit offending to someone. Is this a discouraged behavior?
It could be taken to mean that your PhD from CalTech was a high point of your career and you want to make sure people know that. Depending on the context, that may be a bad or good thing. At a CalTech alumni meeting, it could be very good.