Accounting 101 will be the same at a community college, the state U, and the Ivy League. What’s different are the STUDENTS and the overall atmosphere on camups. Community colleges are commuter schools that cater mostly to part-time students who also work. Many – though not all – will not be academically accomplished. The Ivies are generally tight knit communities of highly motivated, often intellectually inclined, ambitious students. They’re there in part because they want to learn from other ambitious and motivated students.
So while you’ll learn the basics of accounting in all three types of environments, what you learn in addition, and the contacts you’ll make, varies greatly. The difference may be intangible – or very real (such as, the ability to work with a Nobel-prize winning professor. Or meeting Zuckerberg in the course of your CS courses and getting an inside track for a job at Facebook.)