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And neither did they attend any particular school. So what?

NJIT is (emphasis added) a last resort safety. Look up their admissions statistics. That is well known to anyone who works in engineering and who hires engineers in NJ and the metro area (and likely most elsewhere as well). Stevens is a small university in size compared to Rutgers (and a little less so, compared to NJIT), so of course it has a smaller cohort of graduates but arguably their accomplishments are equal to or greater in many cases. For the fun of it, look up the accomplishments of notable Stevens alumni. You might be surprised.