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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The point is that technology has never been driven by prestige, it has always been driven by innovation. Google, Microsoft, Apple were co-founded by state university graduates. This year another internet company founded by a local state university graduate,  squarespace, will undergo IPO, likely making the founder a multi-billionaire.

However, many people from dmv believe otherwise. These people desperately try to instill a hierarchy into the IT scene.They want to transplant their concept and experience of prestige in the law, lobby, and consulting into the technology industry. They make a few data point of a few graduates from elite private to support their cause. Never-mind that these jobs are in trading business that the motto is you eat what you kill, and is not pure technology. [/quote]
No one is talking down state universities - everyone knows that Berkeley, Georgia Tech, UIUC and U Washington are top schools for CS

The question is whether students at these top public’s get the same top opportunities at Michigan Technological. Right out of school? They don’t. Later down their career with experience, they definitely may, but these top job opportunities rolls over later in life into greater opportunities as well.[/quote]

What is a "top" opportunity in CS according to you, since you keep referring to these top opportunities. Working for IBM was the top opportunity in CS in the 70's and 80's, and in the 90's it was Microsoft, late 90's it was any "dot coms", in 2000's no one wanted tech, big layoffs everywhere and salary cuts, working in IT for financial services or government contracting were safest, in 2010's it is the FAANGs, is it still going to be same when the class of 2022 to 2030 graduates? If there is one thing in Tech, it is constant change, what is top today is not top 10 years from now. I can bet you FAANG will not be top CS in 2040. A CS student should anchor themselves to their capabilities and ready to re-invent, not moored to the top CS job today.

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