At some level nobody cares anymore where or how you studied. They are interested in what you can do. As in "What you can do for us in $field" And they mostly lo

At some level nobody cares anymore where or how you studied. They are interested in what you can do. As in "What you can do for us in $field" And they mostly look at experience of what you have already done. Did you learn it from books? Coursera? MIT? Less interesting than you did it here and this other place with this kind of success given the projects respective constraints. And that can often be a personal project. Anyone getting too excited about the signalling value of the name on your school is looking at the wrong thing and might be a bit garbage to work for as well.