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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yes, it's important to go to the highest ranked schools for internship opportunities and hen ultimate hiring[/quote]

Brand and cache matter for top tech recruiting, if one wants to have access to startup /innovation funding as an undergrad, and if one wants to go to top phDs in Engineering. The name-brand schools that launch into managerial and CEO type roles and also into top phDs are the top20 national universities. These schools often have 97% retention in Engineering for undergrad and can push their undergrads into much more advanced math by second year than others, AND have on-site paid research jobs that students can get in summer or during the school year. The Engineering students at these schools commonly have research experience by the middle of sophomore year and get top internships after junior year(or more research if aiming PhD).

[b]MIT, CalTech, CMU, Stanford, Princeton, Upenn, Cornell, Hopkins, Columbia, Duke, Rice, Berkeley, Michigan, Georgia Tech. These are the top schools in Engineering for those who want leadership /top-of-the field jobs, not middle-management worker-bee Engineering. [/b]
I went to one of these schools, sold the first company to larger silicon valley co, and am involved in pre-interview screening. Spouse is a VP software engineer at a company that works out of Boston and they only send recruiters to a subset of this list, to get "the best of the best". The hiring has slowed in tech (especially CS--not what I hire), but Engineers from top tier schools are in high demand. We care what math and physics they have completed before internships: we sometimes grab sophomores from these schools. We consider other schools, of course, but for undergrad these are the preferred schools that deliver prepared students. We want thinkers and innovators who have top math skills.
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Not Purdue?   UT Austin?   UIUC?
According to USNWR those 3 are in the top 10 (and several of the ones you listed are not)
https://www.usnews.com/best-graduate-schools/top-engineering-schools/eng-rankings
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Those lack cachet.[/quote]

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