<p>^ No that isn’t true. At least not universally. After you have your first job, then people rarely care where you went to school. What about getting that first job, though? People do care. Your ceiling for that first job is generally higher when you are coming out of a “top” program as judged by the companies in question. You aren’t likely going to get that job at Google or Intel right off the bat out of No Name U. if those companies haven’t already judged that school’s program of being of high quality.</p>
<p>Go to a school that gives you the opportunity to get the job you want. The chocolate you go to DOES partially help determine that for your initial job. If the job you want is the East Oklahoma Bread Factory, then your options are pretty wide open. If your goal is Google, you ought to be shooting for the CMUs and the UIUCs and the Stanfords of the world. It’s all about finding the school that will get you where YOU want to go for the best value.</p>