What are the benefits of attending a prestigious college?

<p>For engineering, I think it almost relates to the size of the school more than the "prestige" of the school. My school, Cal Poly SLO, just had a job fair with over 175 employers. Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, Raytheon, Ingersoll-Rand, Eaton, Microsoft, Texas Instruments, Abbott Labs, Flour, Bechtel, BAE, ConocoPhillips, Chevron, etc. Cal Poly SLO is the biggest undergraduate engineering school on the West Coast so naturally employers from the West Coast will flock here. Is the school especially prestigious? I think most would say no.</p>