For intelligence. Society, on the contrary, is build upon status, papers and titles - a hierarchy in general, so in the social aspect "where" matters the most.

For intelligence. Society, on the contrary, is build upon status, papers and titles - a hierarchy in general, so in the social aspect "where" matters the most. Ask any British about Oxford.) Btw, studying CS in MIT (a school which traditionally taught principles and big ideas) and in, say, third-rate school that taught Java coding makes a huge difference. It is not a coincidence that it was MIT and Stanford from where the best things in CS came from (and we should not forget the "parallel universe" of Standard ML and eventually Haskell, which came from UK schools).