Aren't software engineers in Silicon Valley already paid way too much money? To be honest you can hire 3 or 4 equally good engineers with that kind of money in any other part of the world.
I opened the article with so many expectations. Then realized it changes nothing. How does having enough money to get a masters from US make one high skilled developer? The only people who are going to benefit from this are the American Universities.
Aren't this all successful companies? There is a reason why all big companies spend 100s of millions of dollars in marketing every year.