There are a lot of people in this thread talking about how important a big name college is. As a counterpoint... If you are not trying to work for a FANG compan

There are a lot of people in this thread talking about how important a big name college is. As a counterpoint... If you are not trying to work for a FANG company within your first ~3 years of graduating I don't think a big name college with a great CS program matters at all. A Carnegie Mellon degree may help you get more interviews and therefore land your first job if you are struggling otherwise but its likely the person with the Kent State CS degree and the Illinois Urbana Champaign CE degree are not applying for the same jobs right out of school. After the first few years education becomes less important and actual skills become far more important. Again this is more true at non FANG/SV/Start up type companies. Which is where most engineers will work for the majority of their career.