<p>The big name school can only affect your FIRST job. After that, everything is pretty much based on your professional knowledge and experience and your school takes a back seat. Now don’t get me wrong, there will be a few hiring managers who like to base their decisions more on “lifetime academic achievement”, but those managers are few and far between and frankly, there are far too many software development positions available for hiring managers to “college name-brand picky”.</p>
<p>Just for the record, I am a MSU grad (Computational Mathematics) and work in software engineering.</p>