I went to a 2nd tier state school in the early mid 2000s.

For our senior project class, one group of students successfully incorporated as a startup and sold their project to the city as a SaSS app, and my group ended up open sourcing our cross platform app.

Everyone in the program could code - really well - by the time they got to their junior year. Those who couldn't were weeded out early on.

May have helped they the entire first 2 years were taught in native languages with manual memory management.