<p>As to alumni, taking a 20 year span (1959-1978) and considering after a quick search only those with engineering degrees, there are Cornellians who were CEO’s of Coors, S. C. Johnson, Chevron, Dow Chemical, Verizon, Applied Materials, Palm, Intel’s CTO, several cabinet secretaries, eight astronauts, and the President of Taiwan…and of course that does not include the hundreds in that single generation who hold positions of considerable import from other of Cornell’s schools, or the scores pre-1959 and post-1978. Not that this is extraordinary, and all the Ivies could make similar or greater claims, but it does kind of dwarf the RPI list. Again, RPI is an excellent school, and the best of the op’s four I think, but let’s not carried away…</p>