<p>Duke isn’t really midwest is it?<br>
Oh, I hope they’ll know of Washington University as well.</p>
<p>^^^^Better chance they’ll know schools like Wisconsin and Illinois. Very good large state schools have lots of alumni all over the world.</p>
<p>@tenisghs You got me wrong. These are the schools I knew before I became interested in US colleges, which means that I had heard of them before eleventh grade in high school. Right now I probably know every college.</p>
<p>Raspberry, it obviously varries from school to school, community to community, city to city and country to country in europe. However, I lived in Europe for 3 years and I did not get the feeling that Brown, Dartmouth, UCLA (their reputation in Asia and South America is much, much stronger than it is in Europe) and UVa were particularly well known there. Penn on the other hand, did seem to have a strong following, as did Chicago, Michigan, Notre Dame and Tufts.</p>
<p>Not Notre Dame! How could that be? ;-)</p>
<p>Notre Dame was founded by a Frenchman, bears the name of Europe’s (if not the World’s) most famous Cathedral, is nicknamed “the Fighting Irish”, is affiliated to the Catholic Church (Catholics are the majority of the population in Austria, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy and Spain) and has played football games in the UK.</p>
<p>Actually Germany is split about evenly between catholics and protestants Alexandre. But I do see your point.</p>
<p>Yes Novi, but only Bavaria counts, and Bavaria is mainly Catholic! hehe!</p>
<p>Ok. That gave me a good laugh.</p>
<p>And don’t forget: Knute Rockne was born in Norway.</p>
<ol>
<li>Cornell</li>
<li>UChicago</li>
<li>Northwestern</li>
<li>Georgetown</li>
<li>Johns Hopkins</li>
<li>WUSTL</li>
</ol>
<p>Anyways OP, the overall consensus seems to be this:</p>
<p>UChicago/Cornell/Hopkins
Northwestern/Georgetown
(tied up between either grouping)Georgetown/WUSTL</p>
<ol>
<li>Cornell</li>
<li>UChicago</li>
<li>Northwestern / Georgetown</li>
<li>Johns Hopkins</li>
<li>WUSTL</li>
</ol>
<p>rofl, hopkins below georgetown? Are we talking about prestige nation-wide? I suppose Hopkins is more prestigious in terms of the sciences and medicine (just like wustl), and although it has great humanities, they aren’t nearly as “prestigious” as the previously mentioned areas.</p>
<p>^ Even in international relations, Hopkins matches Georgetown tit for tat. For politics, Georgetown is only inflated thanks to its location.</p>
<p>I disagree. I don’t think JHU is “all that” on the undergraduate level. If the med school is taken away, there isn’t much left</p>
<p><em>gets ripped apart by JHU fans</em></p>
<p>^ that’s your opinion. When you grow older and have been to college, graduate school, and the working world, you will understand :)</p>
<p>Exactly. My own opinion.</p>
<p>Swimguy, you will get ripped apart by non-JHU fans as well. I personally don’t like the JHU environment. I prefer a more “typical” college atmosphere (lively campus, wild students, school spirit, athletics etc…). But academically, JHU has a lot more to offer than just a great Medical school. </p>
<p>Undergraduate departments in Art History, Biology, English, History, Biolmedical Engineering and International Relations are all stellar. </p>
<p>Chemistry, Computer Science, Economics, Engineering, Mathematics, Music, Psychology and Sociology are all considered very strong as well. JHU has much more to offer academically than just Medicine.</p>
<p>Overall, JHU is one of the best universities out there.</p>
<p>So many other colleges also have “very strong” programs in those subjects as well. So many other colleges have much more to offer academically than just medicine too. You didn’t single out JHU with any of those statements.</p>