Totally agree with the &quot;mass-produced monkey programmer&quot; comment.  I&#x27;ve seen it in practice, when interviewing new graduates.<p>The grads from good (not necessarily great) schools tend to have solid fundamentals, and even without lots of &quot;buzzword&quot; coursework, they come out better. The grads from mediocre schools often have more buzzwords on their resume, but often lack solid fundamentals.<p>Of course, that isn&#x27;t written in stone.  We have several great new hires from schools that are typical regional universities.