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The reputation of the school is a proxy. Teachers are the ones doing the teaching. I think you got lucky!


A lot of smaller no-reputation schools actually have pretty good teachers, compared to some of the bigger or more well known schools. In my case I transferred in my 3rd year from a school with 2k or so CS students to one with 150. Our professors were teachers, not researchers. We had their full attention. Compared to my experience at the larger and better known school where until you were a senior you were one of 150-250 students in the courses. They lectured, you spent time with TAs (very mixed results, I had good ones but mostly mediocre or awful ones who just wanted the check).




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