Do Middle League Universities Produce Influential Research and Engineers?

[Monster92]

In popular science and works of fiction the only meaningful research and engineering comes from the top universities. This is very depressing for me as I'm only going to go to a middle league university (University of the West of England or De Monfront).

Can anyone provide examples of people who have gone to a middle league university and who have contributed to human knowledge somehow? I'm not looking or an Albert Einstein, although it would be great, just someone who has come from an average background went to an average university and who's research was published or contributed to engineering some how.

Examples of personal experience would be great too. Perhaps someone here who has a Masters or phd and went to a middle league university.

Thanks

 

[fss]

Search ArXiv and find out for yourself. Not everyone goes to Caltech, Princeton, or MIT.

 

[Shaun_W]

If you do a PhD then are contributing to human knowledge. If you want examples look at the PhDs from those universities yourself.

 

[Monster92]

Thank you very much :) This site is actually awesome! Thank you for introducing me into this site.

 

[Latecomer]

Is there an easy way to sort through what papers have come from certain schools? There's a few schools I'm looking into, and I want to see the kind of publishings that have come out of those schools.
Or is that usually something you dig through and find on the school's websites?