“Wall Street”, which is the financial jobs in NY, Chicago, Houston, and west coast, with very small firms in Boston,
recruits only at certain schools. As I remember, Williams College, in western MA, which is a very old and prestigious liberal arts college, and most of the Ivy League, but ask someone who knows Wall Street today.
High tech firms favor certain schools, so for instance Oracle will only interview at
a very small list of schools, so for the best chance at a job at Oracle, it may be good to go to one of their schools.
In engineering, the top schools are PUBLIC programs, such as U of Illinois, Berkeley, UT Austin, Michigan, U of Maryland as well as the usual suspects in the private realm like MIT , Caltech, Stanford.