<p>What would happen if Harvard used it's endowment better? What ways can Harvard use it to better them and give them an advantage? If Oxford had a $35 billion dollar endowment how would that better oxford, what would change and what would Oxford be like? Can Oxford have a large competitive endowment? If so, can it be like Harvard's? (Can it catch up and be near it) Oxford has a total of $7 billion dollar endowment as of now, and it's endowment campaign started 4/5 years go, that's a good solid number and if it continues at that right can it be done or close. I have concerns for oxford because it is a jewel that is slipping and it is losing it's thunder. I worry if oxford would have no future and simply become a thing of the past, and no longer become a competitive school that. What are you thoughts on this? Can oxford give Harvard a run for it's money? Can oxford become an even bigger force than it already is now if certain actions are taken and if it's endowment increases?</p>
<p>"Can oxford give Harvard a run for it’s money? "</p>
<p>Your series of jumbled questions rests on a falsehood. Oxford is not chasing Harvard nor vice versa as if it rested on your opinion. Nor is this imaginary “chase” based on endowment size.</p>
<p>“How can Oxford turn $7B into $35B?” Find some Nigerian princes?</p>
<p>“What would happen if Harvard used it’s endowment better?” Better? Their rate of retn has been solid over the long haul. Can they become a better University? Surely. Are they fumbling the ball? No evidence in my eyes.</p>
<p>“What ways can Harvard use it to better them and give them an advantage?” Advantage over what? Whom are they chasing or trying to better? They make decisions based on their own institutional goals, for the betterment of themselves, students and alumni.</p>
<p>“Can oxford give Harvard a run for it’s money?” Sorry but the death-knell notices for Oxford haven’t crept into my path. Frankly, I doubt anyone in Oxford is fretting how it compares to Harvard – why are you making Harvard the staff by which everything is measured? Oxford doesn’t want to be Harvard.</p>
<p>I know i asked a lot of questions, but i love Oxford with all my heart, and i am tired of hearing people insult Oxford. I am not in love with Harvard despite being from the U.S.</p>
<p>Friend: Oxford views peoples’ insults like someone might view toenail clippings.</p>
<p>It doesn’t need our defending its honor or reputation.</p>
<p>I know my opinion does not count or anyone’s for that matter. I just wanted to see what can Oxford do to place itself in the number 1 spot it deserves.</p>
<p>"place itself in the number 1 spot it deserves. " </p>
<p>Hunh? Again, you’re assuming it’s vying for a spot. It nor Harvard are vying. It is shallow outsiders who “rank” them. Pfft. I could take USNWR and all the other rankings and use them for my garden compost.</p>
<p>My alma mater was USNWR ranked #1 my graduation year. So freaking what? That and a dollar will get me a Sweet Tea at McDonalds.</p>
<p>I know it does not need defending, but you know when you love something so much that it hurts when you read or hear anything wrong? It’s not vying for the top spot. The way i see it, is the ranking methodology is inaccurate or untruthful. I will admit i am biased to all things Oxford, i feel that it is being underestimated or overlooked now a days.</p>
<p>The question comes down, in the end, once all of this silliness about endowments and such are put aside, as to whether one is ready to read a single subject or wants the flexibility of an American university education. As my name suggests my American S did his boarding school in England and made a conscious choice to return (although he misses England far more than he anticipated) to the States to attend Harvard as opposed to Cambridge (which for his interests are far better than Oxford). He has never regretted the choice, but he ha mates who are happy as they can be in Oxford and Cambridge colleges and would find studying additional courses to be a complete waste of time.-- </p>
<p>One’s choice depending on one’s personality, needs and style.</p>
<p>Thank you for the information, i have two nephews getting ready to make the step to college and they do bicker quite a bit. If i had the chance or if i was young again, my character would lead me to Oxford. How long is Oxford’s medical program? One of my nephews desire’s to become a doctor, and i just have not been fortunate to find the information on the internet to share with him.</p>
<p>The BM BCh is an UNDERGRADUATE–albeit an extended one–degree not a post graduate degree as in the States. The British MD is a research degree given to few physicians and not at all needed to practice.</p>
<p>“The BM BCh is an UNDERGRADUATE–albeit an extended one–degree not a post graduate degree as in the States”. </p>
<p>Not exactly accurate.</p>
<p>The “BM BCh” which is used in the Great Britain and most of its ex colonies in one form of style or another (BM BCh, MB ChB, MB BS) translates to “Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery” - which is the first professional degree in medicine which makes it equivalent in that sense to the “MD” degree in the US (the degree you get when you graduate from medical school). Using the designation of “undergraduate” or “postgraduate” in this case may confuse the audience in the US - where “MD” is understood to be a “graduate” degree since you need a BS or BA degree to go to med school in the US - and you don’t in the UK but you stay in med school longer.</p>
<p>Now, the British “MD” degree is a research degree but could also be used as “advance degree” or to denote advance work in a specialty of medicine.</p>
<p>If you care about reputation, then in the USA Harvard earns more brownie points when compared to Oxford. In fact, most people probably never heard of Oxford here in the US.</p>
<p>To above poster, QCstudent. EDUCATED persons in the USA have heard of Oxford, which is one of the oldest and most esteemed educational institutions in the world.</p>
<p>Which proves my point, both uneducated and educated have hard of Harvard, the reverse can’t be said about Oxford. What an incredibly stupid topic to discuss btw.</p>
<p>And your point is only relevant if you think that reputation in the USA is what matters. When it came to reputation in the UK Harvard would win precious few brownie points not least because, shock! horror!, most people would not have heard of it.</p>