This question goes beyond what they teach in the classes. Rather, which of the schools in the subject attract students that have the most desire to build stuff outside of the classroom?? e.g. CMU has HackCMU http://hackcmu.com/. In some respects that tells me more than a USNWR or google search results ranking.
Georgia Tech has the HackATL which although not school specific, is most prominent at the school.
OP, it will be very similar with all these top CS schools.
For example, GTech has
VentureLab - http://venturelab.gatech.edu/
Hackathon - http://hackgt.com/
Not knowing the details, but I guess it will be difficult to match the breadth/width and scope of MIT or UCB offerings in this area.
https://www.hackerleague.org/hackathons/hack-at-brown
I can’t tell you at Brown as my student didn’t do this sort of thing, but was involved in many projects outside the classroom especially research which did result in a publication and was practical as well. It was on ecash. And also was on the robotics team and got to go to the International conference which was held at GTech that year. So did some work related to that that got a pub too. So I can’t say for Brown about hackathon stuff because just one student’s interests oriented on research but I can say there is all kinds of practical and theoretical research available to work on.
The way you word it sounds like more tech school culture perhaps. But to some extent any cs dept is going to have some of that going on.