> Now that I mentioned that I'm from Pittsburgh, I'd also like to nix the 'Stanford is a great engineering school" argument as well. Why? Well because so is Car

> Now that I mentioned that I'm from Pittsburgh, I'd also like to nix the 'Stanford is a great engineering school" argument as well. Why? Well because so is Carnegie Mellon--has boasted the #1 Comp Sci program in several rankings but Pittsburgh is galaxies away from the bay area in being a startup hub. Right, it's not that CMU has a bad engineering school, it's just that Stanford is so close to Silicon Valley (and helped create much of it) that it holds greater prestige in the startup community. I don't think anyone looks down on CMU as far as getting a good education goes.