Not OU by itself, but the Honors Tutorial College within OU. I highly recommend the HTC, not so much OU without HTC.
He first worked from an apartment in Denver for about 6 months after graduation, his first gig coming from one of his college roommates/good friend. That convinced him he needed to be in LA and he got an internship with a big vfx house (again through another college roommate/good friend), so he moved there.
One advantage of USC is that you will meet driven, talented people who will become your “bootstrap gang.” But the biggest downside for USC at the time my son was applying to colleges was that they controlled all in terms of film production. If they decided you were not a director, you wouldn’t be directing. And, they had creative control. The films you made were not your films; they became USC’s films.
I don’t know if that was properly characterized (but that was his impression at that time).
You have to look at all policies. For example, the son of a good friend of mine is going to be transferring out of the film school he’s attending because the department will only check out equipment for class assignments, not for independent films. He needs a place he can make his own films.