I was surprised back in the day at the disparity in abilities and educational knowledge from various universities. I had thought if you came from a good one you'd likely be pretty good, and vice versa. While there may have been a slight correlation, it wasn't by any means determinative.
I hired a technician once from Northwestern STATE. Our director thought he came from NW, I let him think that. He was a very good employee. He enjoyed lab work.
I hired another guy who had a degree in archeology from the U. of Ohio. He was also very good, show him something once and he had it. And I had a tech dumped on me by another group from Xavier (Cin) who was the only person I ever had to fire for incompetence. He was beyond inept, he would do ridiculous dangerous things in the lab. I finally had to sit him down in his office doing nothing for the weeks to get the paperwork done.
You good people from all over, and bad.
