For intelligence. Society, on the contrary, is build upon status, papers and titles - a hierarchy in general, so in the social aspect &quot;where&quot; matters the most. Ask any British about Oxford.)<p>Btw, studying CS in MIT (a school which traditionally taught principles and big ideas) and in, say, third-rate school that taught Java coding makes a huge difference.<p>It is not a coincidence that it was MIT and Stanford from where the best things in CS came from (and we should not forget the &quot;parallel universe&quot; of Standard ML and eventually Haskell, which came from UK schools).