Not all University IT is horrible, especially in areas with less tech overall. I've been at a few places on the West coast and in the Midwest. While it can be p

Not all University IT is horrible, especially in areas with less tech overall. I've been at a few places on the West coast and in the Midwest. While it can be pretty hit or miss, overall, I'd say the Midwest schools have better IT. And it's pretty much why you'd expect - academia can't pay market level salaries in Silicon Valley. If you're good at running a data center, you're not going to do it for a university in California. If you're in the middle of Indiana though and want to play with high performance computing, there are only a few places to go. For example, Indiana University has always had top notch IT. They value that as a core strength of the University and it shows... their president is even an old head of IT.