Undergrad degrees aren't the same because the employers that (ab)use the H1B/OPT program only really want masters graduates because it avoids having to declare

Undergrad degrees aren't the same because the employers that (ab)use the H1B/OPT program only really want masters graduates because it avoids having to declare being an H1B dependent which comes at a cost employers don't want to bear. This is why you have universities like UT Dallas (not to single them out, this is the fact at nearly all universities I'm familiar with, it's just that UT Dallas are one of the few that publishes demographic data) with nearly 100% of its cs graduate students being foreign. It's a nice little system that works out for education institutions and employers but with definite costs to pretty much everyone else.