Going to prestigious schools is about signaling and making connections, not receiving better instruction. One of my coworkers teaches cs at a community college,

Going to prestigious schools is about signaling and making connections, not receiving better instruction. One of my coworkers teaches cs at a community college, I've sat in on a class. The stuff he teaches is so much more useful than the stuff that was taught at my top 10 cs school it isn't even funny. He puts way more effort into teaching than almost any of my professors did, because to them, teaching was a nuisance. It's not what they signed up for. It's not why they're at the university. They're at the university to do research, the quality of instruction follows.