You are 100% correct. I work in the aerospace industry and we go through a lot of engineers. Quite a few of the upper managers were old Case engineers, so they preferred to hire Case grads. We also hired engineers from Cincy, OSU, etc... It wasn't long before 50+% of our retained engineering team were UA graduates because in real world manufacturing applications our graduates blew them away. A degree from UA at our company (which is owned by Warren Buffet) gets your name to the top of the pile.