You don't think that UU students feel their degrees are better than one from UVU or USU?
A BYU degree may be better than a UVU degree (just as a Stanford degree is considered to be better than a degree at BYU). That said, there are a lot of UVU grads that are making waves right now. My daughter is at UVU right now. She loves it and I'm impressed with the school.
No need to take offense where no offense is intended... or even if it is. I had a UVU/USU employee that kept telling me that he felt his roomates in Provo thought that their BYU education was better than his UVU education (they didn't say it, he just felt that they thought it). Guess what? He got the job he wanted. Didn't matter.