Do you know these universities?

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<p>I was wondering if you guys heard of some of the universities that are extremely well-known in America.</p>

<p>Please tell me what country you guys are from, and how well known these universities are:</p>

<p>Harvard
Yale
Princeton
MIT
Stanford
Caltech
UCLA
UC Berkeley</p>

<p>This question was meant for internationals or for any citizens living far away from some of the universities.</p>

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<p>I am from the United States so I don’t have the relevant experience to provide an answer, but I will say that Harvard is the most internationally recognized name in higher education. </p>

<p>This will not exactly satisfy your curiosity either, but here are “popularity rankings” for U.S. universities (the sole criteria is yield):</p>

<p>[Most</a> Popular Colleges: National Universities - US News and World Report](<a href=“http://www.usnews.com/articles/education/best-colleges/2009/01/26/most-popular-colleges-national-universities.html]Most”>http://www.usnews.com/articles/education/best-colleges/2009/01/26/most-popular-colleges-national-universities.html)</p>

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<p>I am international student from Greece.The most recognized universities in my country are Harvard,MIT,Berkeley and Stanford. Few people know about Yale,Princeton,Caltech and UCLA and fewer know about Dartmouth and Columbia.</p>

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<p>Canadian here. In Canada people think Harvard is superior to every other school, including Princeton, Yale and Stanford. Very few people have heard of Cal Tech or Dartmouth. UCLA, on the other hand, has a mysteriously high popularity, there are people at my school that firmly believed that it’s a part of the Ivy League.</p>

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<p>I have relatives in India and all they know is Harvard, Yale, and MIT.</p>

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<p>As an FYI for all of the above posters: domestic and international popularity are superficial criteria for selecting a school. “Rolex” is better known than “Patek Phillipe” and “Cadillac” is better known than “Aston Martin”, but the latter are in fact more distinguished for those who know. Williams, Amherst and Swarthmore are probably the most distinguished undergraduate colleges in the U.S. (and CalTech, MIT for B.S.-granting institutions). The rest are great, but produce fewer per capita nobel laureates, etc.</p>

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<p>Canada…and people here know of Harvard, Yale, MIT, UCBerkeley, and Stanford &Princeton (prestige in that order)…But few people who what the Ivy League is.</p>

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<p>The Ivy League is an arbitrary designation for a handful of strong schools that form(ed) an athletic league. As such, they represent a spectrum from top tier to second tier (e.g. Yale to Brown) as is the case for other strong schools (e.g. Swarthmore, Williams, Stanford, U. Chicago at the top). The Seven Sisters was another arbitrary designation for a handful of strong, erstwhile women’s schools, including Wellesley, Smith, Bryn Mawr, etc. which also range from top to second or third tier in their current iterations.</p>

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<p>As a Chinese I can tell you the general public have heard of them. Some IVYs, however, are not. For example, Cornell and Dartmouth.</p>

<p>I stress the point: general public.</p>

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<p>Harvard Yale Princeton Columbia MIT Stanford Upenn.
I am Chinese</p>

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<p>Well, Brown can’t be regarded a truly “second-tier” except in terms of size. </p>

<p>If you mean in comparison to maybe Harvard or Princeton, that may be, </p>

<p>but I’ve never heard that Yale’s research was too darn good in terms of its performance per capita.</p>

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<p>Ethiopian, Harvard Yale and Princeton are the only ones
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