College prestige importance or lack thereof for various majors, career paths, and graduate / professional schools

[NiceUnparticularMan]

@eyemgh

I’m sure either would be fine, but when you look at both facilities and course offerings they pale in comparison to state schools that are considered by most on this forum to be fairly pedestrian.

I guess this dates me, but back in the day it was generally accepted most Engineering students would either go to a “tech” school or a state university for college. Private non-tech colleges were mostly known for liberal arts and sciences. There were always exceptions, like Stanford. But I guess I continue to assume state universities will be pretty dominant in terms of actually producing working engineers, and as far as I know that is still mostly true.