I assume this article refers to CS at CMU, or it would make even less sense. (There are much harsher academic environments in the world than CMU!) I'd venture

I assume this article refers to CS at CMU, or it would make even less sense. (There are much harsher academic environments in the world than CMU!) I'd venture to guess that 10-15 years into the real world, very few Harvard grads say "I wish I'd gone to CMU," while probably quite a few grads of CMU (and other engineering programs) wish they were better networked. In his New Yorker interview, Michael Saylor made a similar contrast between MIT (his alma mater) and Harvard. In his view, Harvard grads did better in life because they had learned to develop relationships, and had more of them.