<p>I'm debating between the two, and am really leaning towards University of Edinburgh. Although probably easier to get into than Brown, it's #14 in the world for Arts & Humanities (QS</a> World University Rankings 2010 - Arts & Humanities | Top Universities), a lovely city, and studying abroad would be a really cool experience. My only concern is employment opportunities/perception of my degree when I head back to the US. What schools would it be on par with? What is the general perception of the University?</p>
<p>Well, I study at Edinburgh, and I would say it’s fairly well recognised in the US; when I tell people where I go to school, most people seem to have heard of t. I couldn’t tell you how they rank it in their heads with respect to Brown, but it’s certainly not an unknown entity.</p>
<p>Did you apply to Edinburgh yet? If you haven’t, you can apply for the Freshman Year Abroad Program. If you get accepted into Brown, you can defer and go to Edinburgh for one year. Best of both worlds.</p>
<p>If you can’t and still want to go to Edinburgh over Brown, don’t worry about job opportunities. If you plan to go to grad school, a degree from Edinburgh, especially an honors degree, will get you in anywhere. (Depending on other tests like the GRE)</p>
<p>haha it’s funny I was just thinking upenn or edinburgh for my masters and then I found this thread literally at that moment</p>
<p>I can’t understand why someone would choose Edinburgh over Brown, especially over some ranking of graduate programs. If you attend Brown, you can easily go to Edinburgh for an exchange for a year. If you attend Edinburgh, the top students in your year would be competing for an opportunity to exchange at Brown, leaving you very little chance.</p>
<p>Why would you exchange to Brown? That seems like such a stupid way to make a decision.</p>
<p>Go to Edinburgh, then US for grad school. Simple as that really. Edinburgh and Brown are going to give you equal career opportunities. Edinburgh’s opportunities would be more unique probably. Brown w/ a major in humanities/arts is a ticket for unemployment.</p>
<p>Are you actually in at Brown? Are finances an issue?</p>
<p>If you have an acceptance at Brown and can pay for it, for crying out loud, go to Brown. No brainer. Spend a year or semester abroad in Edinburgh if you like. Don’t think Edinburgh is going to be considered unique here in the US (I can, right off the top of my head, name 5 kids I know who have studied abroad there). It just isn’t that unusual.</p>
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There’s a difference between studying abroad and obtaining a degree.</p>
<p>^ I really don’t know where you are getting your information, Brown is going to give you more and better career opportunities in the US. Brown would even give you an edge in the US. There’s no comparison. adam0302 either can’t analyze a situation, can’t it right, or have something against the Ivy League.</p>
<p>“There’s a difference between studying abroad and obtaining a degree.”
You are right. There is a big difference. If you study abroad, you still get you Brown degree, giving you access to generally better career opportunities in the US. If you obtain a degree at Edinburgh, you are stuck with a degree from Edinburgh. Edinburgh is good mostly for American students who wants to do an exchange to experience something different and to transfer credits pass/fail; it can’t be compared to Brown in terms of career or grad school placement.</p>
<p>LOL if you think Brown humanities majors have any employability.</p>
<p>Brown is a well-known Ivy League school. In the US, that carries a lot of weight. I think people in the US would have a much less clear idea of what a degree from Edinburgh means. If you do intend to head back to the US, Brown is probably a better choice from a purely practical point of view. Still, if you like Edinburgh a lot more, I don’t think it’s crazy to go there instead.</p>
<p>The idea that humanities majors from Brown are less employable *in the US *than humanities majors from the University of Edinburgh is silly.</p>
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If you are going to grad school, the UG really has no weight anyways (particularly in a non-finance/engineering/math/science career). I don’t see how Edinburgh would be a problem. Go to linkedin and narrow down by Edinburgh grads in the US. They’re all doing quite fine.</p>
<p>I’m sure Edinburgh grads are doing fine. However, it’s nonsense to say that undergraduate doesn’t matter for graduate school. Often, when people tell you that something “doesn’t matter,” what they mean is that it doesn’t make all the difference.</p>
<p>“LOL if you think Brown humanities majors have any employability.”</p>
<p>You really have no idea do you? Do you know what English literature and art history majors from Brown can do? Do you know what they end up doing?</p>
<p>You obviously have no idea or have some unreasonable prejudices against prestigious schools.</p>
<p>“You really have no idea do you? Do you know what English literature and art history majors from Brown can do? Do you know what they end up doing?”</p>
<p>This actually sounds like a joke. You serious?</p>
<p>No bias. The rest of the ivy league is significantly better, and Brown cannot be considered on the same level as HYP/Columbia/Penn. I really wouldn’t be surprised to see Brown get bumped from the T15 in the next few years.</p>
<p>Adam, there’s a famous saying that you may not have learned yet in your high school: “When you’re in a hole, stop digging.”</p>
<p>“No bias. The rest of the ivy league is significantly better, and Brown cannot be considered on the same level as HYP/Columbia/Penn. I really wouldn’t be surprised to see Brown get bumped from the T15 in the next few years.”</p>
<p>You really should take Hunt’s advice. You are just showing how ignorant you are. I’m going to stop wasting my time responding to you. You are obviously the type of high school student who miserably check leaks every hour during the day before the release of USNews’ ranking every year.</p>
<p>Dont take adam0302 seriously. He is in high school anyways. </p>
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<p>Of course he has prejudices lol, he is going to durham. Next thing he would claim Durham is as good as Brown lolz.</p>
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<p>TBH no humanities degree has any employability. However you have to market your skills especially to prestige conscious firms. 9/10 prestige conscious firms would put brown in a class higher than Edinburgh.</p>
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<p>The CEO at Bank of America is a Brown undergrad with a History degree.</p>
<p>The number of kids at Brown who get investment banking/consulting offers will likely be 3X-5X that of Tier 3 british universities such as Warwick, Edinburgh, Durham, Bristol e.t.c.</p>
<p>I agree though that after Investment banking/Consultancy all degrees are on an equal footing. It then comes down to your ability and skill set. Brown would be the same as Edinburgh anyways since most US employers have heard of neither lol.</p>
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<p>I was excluding IB/consulting bc I don’t think most humanities majors start off uni with that in mind as a career goal. Although you do present a valid point.</p>
<p>A quick linkedin search turned up that most edinburgh grads in the US are in IT/biomed/biotech fwiw.</p>