I was involved in interviews for Engineers at multiple locations before retiring from a large multi national company during my career and while each location had specific schools we recruited from, we also accepted and interviewed applicants from other schools. The particular school didn't have as much of a influence on who we hired as experiences co-oping in between years as well as extra curricular experiences that demonstrated drive and leadership. There were some minimum bars like GPA people needed to clear but allowances were made for extenuating circumstances in those respects as well.
Most states have at least one state school that can provide a solid engineering education with hands on adequate hands on experience in the field of choice, and those provide a good value vs out of state most of the time. I graduated from University of Missouri at Rolla (name changed now) but the state school at Columbia was also a solid school I could have attended. Within Missouri there was also Washington University as an option but that was quite expensive and with school be substantially self funded I chose one of the lesser expensive schools and never suffered from the choice during my career. I wouldn't advise anyone going out of their way to choose an expensive engineering school over a moderately priced one because perceived advantage in the job market. Over the course of a career, that just won't matter, it's performance on the job is what drives success in most places as it should.
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