I think it&#x27;s more that they&#x27;re considered impossible to judge, and so they kind of get passed around with a blank &quot;Hey, have you ever heard of this place?&quot; Ironically, I think you do better if you&#x27;re from China. There&#x27;s enough Chinese immigrants  to educate you about Chinese engineering schools. Europe is just too diverse to build up this<p>Either way, you end up not looking at what foreign school they went to, but rather what graduate program they got into in the US.