I’m French went to a French engineering school (INSA, ranked within the top 10), went to RIT (tanked 35th in the US) as an exchange student for a year. I found

I’m French went to a French engineering school (INSA, ranked within the top 10), went to RIT (tanked 35th in the US) as an exchange student for a year. I found that the level at the RIT was really quite low. Especially when it comes to mathematics and fundamentals. On the other hand, RIT’s courses were much more pragmatic though, more up to date on more modern project management, much better entrepreneurship course. So, it’s different focus but not entirely bad. I still know that I ‘d take someone from a French engineering school in most cases though During the time I was at RIT, I tutored in maths two students at the nearby community college (it was just down the road from where I lived), the level was abysmal and yes pretty close to learning html. I’ve also hired and worked with people from top universities in my career, MIT’s reputation is deserving, people I’ve worked from there have been very good. Harvard not so much (but the sample is only 2 people and, well CS is not Harvard’s forte) Note, this is most likely biased based on my experience but as someone educated in Europe that has spent most of my career working for US companies. EDIT: oh one major difference between my mostly free(540 euros a year back then) French engineering school and the much more expensive (25000 usd per year at the time) RIT, the non-educational (sports etc) facilities were much nicer.