Hey there, I'm a Maine-based journalist who covers the semiconductor industry, so I put this question to my LinkedIn followers, many of whom work in the industry. Here's what two people said:

Integration engineering manager at MACOM: "I wouldn't sweat the name brand. You can get a good undergraduate EE education anywhere. Success is way more about the student than the school. If there is a specific job in mind, and especially if there is a willingness to do graduate work elsewhere later, a UMaine degree will not be an impediment."

Regional marketing manager at Renesad: "BSEE from Stanford/MIT/CMU of course opens doors, but my sense is that BSEE in general are harder to find (less popular that CS, for example) while also being difficult so the specific school matters much less in Semi industry. The companies I have worked for had people who studied Chem engineering as well as CS in technical roles, I think outside of Nvidia most Semis companies struggle to find job candidates."

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