I have a bit of a problem with this. I went to a community college for my general education classes ($200 dollars an hour vs $70 dollars an hour...) and the education you receive at some community college is actually better then those you get at a lot of universities. For starters the teachers are there to teach rather then pretend to while they are doing research, the class sizes are smaller so you get one on one attention from your professor and help if you need it (hell, at a lot of the larger schools you might be lucky to get 5 minutes outside of class with a professor), and community colleges don't discriminate from hiring a professor on the basis of a Ph.D. Some of the best professors or teachers I have ever had taught at a community college, these are thought provoking, intelligent, entertaining teachers who make you want to come to school every day, make you want to learn, and make you want to better yourself and they would have never been hired at a university because their highest level of education is a Masters degree.
Further more, just because a school isn't well known it doesn't mean that it isn't a great school which offers a fine education. That can also go the other way, just because a school is a large, well known university it doesn't mean that it's a good school education wise. I'm going to WSU because it's close to home, however, I would rather be going to Emporia State. Even though I'm sure no one on this board as ever heard of it, it's a great school and widely considered as such by the academics in and around KS, WSU, on the other hand, is considered average at best.
Stop putting so much damn emphasis on a schools name and start putting the emphasis on which school gives you the best education for your money.
