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Please stop this IIT is so awesome talk, its great but not that great either. Do an analysis of the schools IIT professors graduated from. You will be surprised. I actually did this by going through the horrible(whats that IIT students are genius?) IIT Chennai website. Around 85% or more graduated from a non IIT pathetic universities that you talk of. Here is a sample http://www.iitm.ac.in/eedept

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Please re-read my comment. I only spoke about the quality of the professors, which I maintain is better at IITs. Quality professors do not need to graduate from IIT.

FWIW, I myself chose not to join IIT since I couldn't get into CompSci there. At my college, which is considered among the next top engineering colleges after IIT, most of the CS faculty didn't even have a PhD in terms of qualifications, nor were they good in any other way (to be fair, other departments weren't so bad).

I taught myself CS and coding, because I really enjoyed them. But after I came to the US for grad school, I realized how much difference a good professor can make.

Agreed, in the same spirit, quality students do not need to graduate from IIT.

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