[SecurityLagoon]

As someone outside of America - it seems insane you would go into private debt for over a decade just to have MIT written on a piece of paper. I am sure the instruction is good and you will meet some great people but after you have been in the industry for a while it won't matter one bit where you went to tertiary education or even if you went to tertiary education. For technical subjects, in the modern Internet era, University is just a foot in the door and MIT is a very expensive foot in the door.

I work in cyber security and also sit on recruitment for our org. I barely care what the undergrad education history is on an application - especially if they have 1+ jobs since graduation. The applicant's ability to know what they are talking about and problem solve, plus their cultural fit, is much more important.