@Publisher, people can move. Companies don’t have to come to them. Also, a low graduation rate is actually a positive signal to hiring managers, if anything. It means the school doesn’t just graduate everybody. After all, you are not hiring the drop-outs. You’re hiring the grads. Which also alleviates the concerns about student body quality (if most don’t graduate). Top unis in Europe now and many top publics back in the day in the US use to weed out much of their entering class. But, if anything, that makes employers look more favorably towards UIUC EE/CompE/CS and ETH Zurich grads. They know the rigorous training those grads received in order to graduate from those places.