<p>What schools would you say are Duke's peer institutions?</p>
<p>I think the differences between top ten schools are nearly negligible, but i guess these could be a few of their "peer schools."</p>
<p>Darmouth, Upenn CAS, UChicago, Brown, Cornell, Columbia (although Columbia probably has a lot more prestige)</p>
<p>Real world: any top school</p>
<p>On CC: any non HYPSM top school</p>
<p>Dartmouth, Penn, Columbia, UChicago, Williams, Swarthmore and Amherst are Duke's peer schools. Brown and Cornell are great schools but I feel that they are a notch lower.</p>
<p>I like noobcake's answer.
I have never met a person who looked down on me because I was going to Duke.
No is like, what happened?? You got rejected from Harvard, loser!</p>
<p>swarthmore, amherst, and williams aren't comparable to duke.</p>
<p>brown, dartmouth, and columbia are a notch above. HYPSM are many notches above.</p>
<p>rice, penn, cornell, chicago, hopkins, wustl, northwestern are peers</p>
<p>this is basically confirmed by the way duke (and other schools) conduct peer benchmarking during internal assessments within the COFHE group
COFHE</a> : Consortium On Financing Higher Education</p>
<p>Please. Chicago is not even close to being a peer institution of Duke in terms of academics, and neither is Columbia. Looks like people need a PA Rating reality check (or people just want to make themselves feel good by putting their school on par with the heavy hitters). </p>
<p>Brown, Cornell, Hopkins, WUStL, Penn, and Rice.</p>
<p>U Chicago is definitely on par with Duke, if not above Duke academically. It's one of the toughest and most forward-thinking institutions in the world.</p>
<p>Phuriku meant that Chicago is much more of an academic powerhouse, and he's right. I also agree with the fact that Columbia is better on an academic sense, but I feel that a "peer" schools should be evaluated on a basis that transcends just academics.</p>
<p>you people sound very silly</p>
<p>haha ditto to what incollege88 said...honestly, why does this topic really matter?</p>
<p>You can compare schools by comparing the students, and also by reading this article:</p>
<p>Duke</a> still step below top schools - News</p>
<p>Brown, Dartmouth, Columbia, and Penn all have students with slightly lower or equal stats/NMS/WSJ-based placement as Duke, but they are about equal overall for all both ACADEMIC (SATs, scholarships, funding, etc.) and REAL WORLD purposes (getting an elite job, getting into professional school, prestige). </p>
<p>While Chicago is comparable to Duke in terms of pure undergraduate academics, but is behind Duke for REAL WORLD things like graduate placement, jobs, etc. - maybe due to reasons such as grade deflation and less 'social capital' on campus and other things. For example, Chicago doesn't attract the extroverted, outgoing type of student Duke usually attracts as often. Of course, after visiting two of my friends at Chicago a few times I have a really negative view of the school - my HS classmates who attend Chicago complain that its students really do pride themselves on working really hard and being intellectual, but on average they aren't as strong before coming to college and don't do as well after college either. </p>
<p>Some fun facts: Duke attracts 2X NMS scholars per capita than Chicago, slightly higher SATs/GPA, much better law/biz/med placement, slightly better placement in international scholarships, definitely better placement at elite companies (at least in finance/consulting), and so on...also, Chicago "is where fun goes to die." Still a good school, but too much of its prestige comes from its elite graduate programs not so much due to a talented undergraduate school. Again, disclaimer, I really disliked Chicago when I visited and the facts are facts. i don't feel like citing all the sources but the are a combination of WSJ, NMSC, Collegeboard, and anyone on Wall Street or in consulting. </p>
<p>I don't get why people that go to Chicago need to be pretentious...saying things like "Duke doesn't compare to Chicago" might be true after all.</p>
<p>I'd say Penn, Dartmouth, Cornell, Columbia, U of Chicago, and may be Northwestern. I don't think Wustl is comparable to Duke...</p>
<p>A lot of you guys are biased. How can u say rice is a a peer institution to Duke. I like both schools and applied to both schools, but rice is not on the same level. And Dartmouth and Columbia are not a notch above . They are equal or perhaps even lower. To originpranks' post, if schools like cornell and northwestern are on Duke's level, then so is washu.</p>
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PA is the most subjective and flawed statistical measure employed by USNews. Yes, Chicago's graduate programs are much better than Duke's but at the undergraduate level. I would place both on an even keel with regards to academics and Duke a notch higher in job/grad school placement.</p>
<p>I'm trying to decide between Rice and Duke. Does anyone know if Duke's supposed "superiority" also holds true when comparing Economics Departments?</p>
<p>Although the econ major at Duke seems "larger" in the number of students and faculty, is this necessarily a good thing?</p>
<p>Thanks.</p>
<p>@Nomada. I don't think Duke's economics department is clearly superior to Rice's. However, I do think that Duke provide much larger recruitment opportunities in regards to jobs in banking, finance, etc especially in the NE part of the country. Duke is particularly well represented in NYC firms, while Rice's job prospects are more regional (e.g. Texas). So, I think that while the departments may be comparable, if you want a job at a prestigious firm on Wall St, I feel confident saying Duke will provide you more opportunities because TONS of those types of firms recruit at Duke, while I'd guess fewer recruit at Rice. If you wanted to get a PhD in econ instead, however, I'm not sure how much of a difference there is.</p>
<p>that is a very objective response in my opinion.</p>
<p>is Rice econ still good for regional banking, such as in Houston or Dallas? While Rice may not have the national prestige level that Duke does since they aren't in the East and don't attract a lot of NE kids, would a person whos interested in banking and consulting be able to do it at the regional offices of banks like Goldmans Sachs, JP Morgan, Deutsche Bank, etc., in Houston and Dallas instead of NYC?</p>
<p>georgetown is definitely a peer institution, and its location is a million times better</p>