<p>When it comes to Computer Science, once can basically attend any school in the Top-200 and after X amount of years experience will be at the same level.</p>
<p>Why?</p>
<p>Because most CS professional areas, especially software engineering is all about how one obtains the most sought technical skills that are “hot” at the time. It is possible that some so-called “higher ranked” schools may cover more in-depth material than other schools but it is usually nullified in industry because industry isn’t really using that “extra whatever”.</p>
<p>Therefore, unless academia and research is part of your plans, Computer Science, especially software engineering pretty much makes every grad the same within the Top-200 CS programs. Computer Science is not like the Business majors where hiring managers are mostly about your school “brand name”, GPA and your 100 extra-curriculars. CS hiring managers are almost all about “do you know X technology”.</p>