Are there any affordable US Universities for International (Canadian) graduate students?

Do tech companies ask easier interview questions to graduate students from top universities like Carnegie Mellon and Georgia Tech as compared to other universities?

• Why is it that students from such universities get internships and full time positions easily?Do companies have some kind of a quota system where they have to pick a specific number of students from top universities?

• Answer:

  No they don't. The interview process is pretty much the same for all universities.  The difficulty is *getting* to the interview.  One analogy that I like to use is that universities are like a department store.  When you need a television set in the US, you go to somewhere like Best Buy or Fry's Electronics.  When you need interns, you go to a university, where a friendly salesperson in career services will sell you interns. If you have a university with good career services, they will market their graduates to companies, and work with those companies to see that that the company recruits interns from that university.