<p>IMO they probably don’t see so many UCLA-educated engineers in the northeast.
I worked as an engineer in a large midwest engineering firm, eons ago, and I don’t recall any UCLA grads there.
I don’t recall any Berkeley grads either.
But basically all engineers know about Berkeley. And would know that UCLA is not Berkeley, so might presume that UCLA is a cut below. And, if they were located near one of the very strong state flagships, since locals generally tend to overrate their local product, may mentally place UCLA just below that. Or maybe equal, if they had a decent but less strong state flagship. That’s just my guess though.</p>
<p>Of course I never encountered a Tufts engineer either.
I imagine people in the Mass tech area know about it. Many educated people in the Northeast may have heard of Tufts, and a decent number will know it’s a good school with high admissions standards, but I don’t know that they’ll all know about its engineering program particularly. It’s not a famous engineering program like RPI, etc. A lot of engineers didn’t apply to high-brow high-dollar places, they went to their state U’s.</p>
<p>So I guess what I’m saying is lots of engineers in the northeast probably won’t have a very good handle on either school.</p>
<p>Maybe classicrockerdad has an opinion about this, his would be more relevant.</p>