<p>A ranking of universities based on reputation. Any surprises in the list?</p>
<p>Crimson article:
Harvard</a> Wins in Global Brand Rankings | News | The Harvard Crimson</p>
<p>Please refrain from turning this into a "dnt apply to harvrd just cuz of reputashin" thread. Thanks!</p>
<p>A bit, I’d say. Why is there a drastic drop in scores from Oxford to Princeton?</p>
<p>Why isn’t Vanderbilt on here? There seem to be a couple of surprises.</p>
<p>I like how Berkeley has a better rep than Stanford. lol</p>
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<p>Hmm, funny you bring that up, because I’ve seen Berkeley above Stanford on a couple of rankings, always wondered why…</p>
<p>Interesting, Berkeley has a better rep than:</p>
<p>Stanford
Oxford
Princeton
Yale
Caltech
Cornell
UPenn</p>
<p>Either the creators were heavily intoxicated while making the list or I think they thought Berkeley was really Yale. If you switch them the list sort of appears to start making some sense. At least a little more than it does now.</p>
<p>No way in hell Berkeley is better than Stanford. </p>
<p>I think one of the creators was accepted, at Berkeley and rejected at Stanford, and gave Berkeley the nod over Stanford out of spite.</p>
<p>Note that the list is based on global reputations of the universities. I think it makes sense because it is true that Harvard is pretty much the only brand in education that is widely recognized in all countries.
I would say also, that Berkeley is, at least in my country, better-known than is Yale, although I don’t quite understand why Berkeley’s score is almost thrice as high.</p>
<p>What polyglot says is true. The list is indeed based on the reputation of the name and not the quality of education. No matter, I would still argue that it is ridiculous to put Berkeley not just over Yale but Stanford (w tf?) which is very well known. If the list was conducted with the basis of “How known is the college. If I walk up to a random urban dweller in Europe and ask them about X college will they recognize it?” If that is the criteria then UCLA should be 2nd or 3rd. This list simply makes no sense no matter what the criteria was for establishing it.</p>
<p>As someone from MA, the surprise to me on that list was the University of Massachusetts. UMass is generally not regarded as a great state school, and its generally not even one of the better known ones…</p>
<p>I just realized UC Davis is almost 30 ranks above USC. That list is a great joke to read in the morning. lmao</p>
<p>both stanford and berkeley are well-known in my country. and i would say people would rank berkeley higher than yale and princeton, but not stanford</p>
<p>Some of these are definitely flawed (perhaps most notably, USC) - but Berkeley above Stanford is not quite as bizarre as some of you may think. Berkeley takes many international applicants and has quite the reputation in areas of Southeast Asia and, I’m sure, all around the world.</p>
<p>Of course, Harvard has to be the best known brand internationally. An interesting question to you all: do any of you foresee any university usurping Harvard of its position at the top of the “reputation ladder”? And if so, how would a university go about doing that? It seems like a vicious cycle: a majority of the top students will go to Harvard, and so a majority of the leaders of the next generation will grow up thinking that Harvard is number 1.</p>
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<p>I don’t think many people outside of the US have heard of Vandy</p>
<p>According to these rankings, those of us on CC should change our “HYPMS” references to “HMSPY.” :)</p>