They offered Lan Larison $100k to stay, so I guess I'd stay too if that was offered.

Does anybody know the details of the Pinnick deal?

I think we tend to devalue degrees from other schools too much. — Riveraggie

It’s funny, for the last few years I have been the people manager for about 400 employees, and maybe about 50 college kids per semester. I found that the prestige of university made no difference in performance. The best predictors of workplace success were those who had lived away from home in a dorm for at least a year and those who had experience in a crappy campus food service job.

So the ones that lived away…

Maybe you can squeak away in High School, but I feel that would be almost impossible at a University. I do believe that across the board the universities in California are the best. I really can’t think of one private or public that you can easily graduate from with a Bachelor of Science degree. Especially a UC and CSU. Some of my coworkers that have gone the CSU route are some of the most capable I have met.

Most don't get a BS degree.
The difference between UC and CSU is not mostly in the science classes, it's that credit can be earned for less academic courses. If you peruse a junior college catalogue you'll see that there are a bunch of classes that will earn CSU credit but not UC credit If someone transfers from a CSU to a UC they are likely to lose credits.
I've taken slightly more classes at CSU, some at the graduate level in computer science, so I'm not denigrating your coworkers. I do believe there is not as much of a difference between systems as there was when i was a student.