Technical types in the US have heard of it, and (as others have mentioned) Rose Hullman, and hold them in high regard. They're just much smaller than their cou

Technical types in the US have heard of it, and (as others have mentioned) Rose Hullman, and hold them in high regard. They're just much smaller than their counterparts, and don't have huge grad schools, so they wind up lumped in with liberal arts colleges in the collective mindset. UT Austin is one of the top few public Computer Science programs, up there with University of Illinois and UC Berkeley and maybe 1 or 2 others that I'm missing. When the oil money started coming in, they went on a hiring spree. btw - I'm a big fan of the idea of more Engineering schools in NYC. Even with Poly, Columbia and the new Cornell school, there are more jobs than talented candidates.