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In response to "Ditto for comp sci and MIT" by Beryllium

I believe ReyRey's point was, reputation matters, but no school (or schools) has a monopoly on quality education.

Posted by musubi Apr 28 '10, 11:12

It "matters" where you went to school, but it's just a piece of a much larger puzzle.

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Indeed, you can get the quality education from many places - it's the business opportunity that the big schools unlock. -- nm - Beryllium Apr 28, 11:13 1
- (The networking, as loosi says) -- nm - Beryllium Apr 28, 11:13
I'm not disagreeing with that at all. -- nm - loosilu Apr 28, 11:13 5
- note: There are great opportunities for undergrads at a lot of state schools as well, since they have the funding. - loosilu Apr 28, 11:14 4
  - The UC's only receive approximately 20% of their funding from the State. The rest is all from fees, patent and research earnings and donations. -- nm - jnine Apr 28, 11:30 3
    - It's totally irrelevant where they get their funding. that's not the point. A high proportion of research grants is indicative - loosilu Apr 28, 11:39 2
      - It seemed you were implying they had an advantage because of their guaranteed government funding, when in fact, as you stated above, they receive the - jnine Apr 28, 11:56 1
        
        no no no, absolutely not. Grants are the key. -- nm - loosilu Apr 28, 12:03

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