To me as a someone hiring, the "big name" part doesn't matter, but the school itself does. The curriculums are just not the same everywhere. I worked in a com

To me as a someone hiring, the "big name" part doesn't matter, but the school itself does. The curriculums are just not the same everywhere. I worked in a computer lab of an "online university" at the same time I was getting my Comp Sci degree at a large state school, and was shocked to see that Juniors in the online university had projects where they had to write a Celsius to Fahrenheit conversion app in Java (this was more basic then my freshman level comp sci!). That said, you shouldn't just limit to Harvard, CMU etc... There is a very small four year school near us that I've seen crank out extremely smart Comp sci people, who have learned better fundamentals then people I know from CMU.