To expand on what @RichInPitt wrote - if you are looking to go to work right out of school, check out the opportunities that the school provides for internships. Weirdly, some programs at the most “elite” national universities are really poor at providing industry internships for their students, mostly because the department is living in the 1970s and thinks that All The Best Students Go To Do PhDs, and they really only care about The very Best. So they will have internships and jobs in academic labs and some national labs, but the department will not have strong industry connections.
This seems specific to some “elite” private national universities, while public universities and most LACs are pretty good at setting up students with industry internships.
Internships are the No. 1 reason that students get jobs right out of college. Having work experience trumps name recognition of the college any day, and companies looking to recruit college graduates will very often hire the students who were interns at the company.