<p>If the education is good, why should the size of the endowment matter? The endowment is a means to an end, not an end in itself.</p>
<p>a larger endownment means the school can offer better and more resources..because income from endownment operations the school (interest, investment)
more importantly, a large endownment in most ivies and elite US colleges allow needbased aid, which lures better qualified but economically deprived applicants.... for example , princeton is needblind even for internationals, therefore, better qualified internationals apply, and thus better the student body</p>
<p>If you are talking about Imperial College of London, i am not sure about how it is held in US but i can say for a fact that it is an awesome university, and it is considered to be one of the best universities for science and technology in the world. If you take the Times rankings for 2006/2007, you will find it in the top 50 in overall universities and in the top 10 in Europe. </p>
<p>I am from the Gulf and i can say for a fact that Imperial College is highly regarded in this part of the world. </p>
<p>I am pretty shocked that some people say that they have not heard of Imperial College of London when it is considered by many to be the 3rd best university in UK for science and technology after Oxford and Cambridge, and i would do anything to get an admission into such a prestigious university.</p>
<p>bearcats:
Then the appropriate thing to say would be that "Imperial College doesn't offer much need-based aid and may not offer a good education because it doesn't have a large endowment". As I said, the endowment is only a means to an end, and the assertion that it hampers the quality of education there is questionable, since it's clearly one of the most prestigious institutions in the world.</p>
<p>sorry ive never heard of it :(</p>
<p>I've never heard of it either :>(</p>
<p>You're asking Americans what is essentially a Geography question. This is definitely not the strong point of the American education system. Plus I've heard 90% of Americans don't have a passport. Most Americans don't even know where England is, let alone can name any university in the UK, and if they can it's Oxford (In the same way people in the UK only usually know of Harvard and Yale in the US) or St Andrews because Prince William went there. I was an undergrad at Cambridge and 99% of Americans have never heard of it. Outside of academia, probably none.</p>
<p>Imperial College London?
Is that the same thing?
I'm from Switzerland, so that's why I've heard of it maybe.
I hear it's a pretty good school though.</p>
<p>And seriously, your degree only matters for the first few years after you graduate, after, it's all about work experience. And if you get a master's degree, no one even cares about your bachelor's.</p>
<p>IC is good. up there with warwick and ucl in terms of reputation</p>
<p>my dad got his MBA from imperial, hes working as country manager for a very big international company, so imperial is good</p>
<p>I've heard of it. a lot. since I came from HK, I know a lot of people attending there. Good school, def top-notch in Europe and especially in UK. Cambridge, Oxford, IC, King's. All four are really well known... I'll probably apply for MBBS there.</p>
<p>but I'm not sure about how the degree earned there is evaluated here. sorry.</p>
<p>Can you take finance related classes as part of your undergrad under the British system? At any rate, I know technical undergrads here that got hired directly into finance - but I think that they had minors or double majors in economics or the like.</p>
<p>I think that you might be able to get credit for how good a school it is IF you can figure out how to tactfully educate the people that you are interviewing with about Imperial. I.e., the two people alluded to in the first paragraph went to UNC-Chapel Hill and to CMU - not Harvard.</p>
<p>honestly, imperial isnt hard to get into. i mean its a great university and stuff but it's probably harder to get into like rice or someplace in the us. All they look at are o level/ as level results. Thats IT. probably why i got in. Regardless, its 15000 pounds a year with zero aid, so i cant go there. meh.</p>
<p>Most of my fellow Americans probably think it's where the Imperial Gallon was invented. Or Imperial Magarine. I went to the U of St. Andrews for a year, and never heard anybody mention Imperial College. That, of course, doesn't mean it's not a great school.</p>
<p>I can't believe so many haven't heard of Imperial. It's #3 in the U.K. after Cambridge and Oxford and probably better than those two at science and engineering.</p>
<p>The whole University of London and its diverse and separately located and named colleges is quite alien to Americans. If the various colleges were U of London AT _________, it would be in a form we could comprehend a lot easier.</p>
<p>no offense or anything but it shouldnt come as a surprise that imperial is not well known in the states since the london school of economics is not known in the states despite all the advertising and public relations stuff they do</p>
<p>lostincode IC is good. up there with warwick and ucl in terms of reputation</p>
<p>That made me laugh.. Please don't tell me about Imperial's reputation in the UK. It easily trumps both UCL and Warwick... Imperial here is viewed in the Oxford, Cambridge, LSE league... UCL and Warwick.... a notch below..</p>
<p>Haha that's just the view of an ignorant American on the street.</p>
<p>Glad I entertained you :P</p>
<p>thatcherite I agree
from everything I've heard, there's Oxford and Cambridge which are very famous and prestigious, and then LSE and Imperial are right there with Oxbridge academically...it's only the famous name of Oxbridge and the fact that Oxbridge are complete universities but LSE and Imperial are only for a more specific field (math/science and social sciences respectively) that they're not known in the US.. Imperial is most definately above Warwick...</p>
<p>I have a cousin from Hong Kong who studied Chemistry at Imperial. I was really young then, but I remember being told that Imperial was pretty much on the same level as Oxford...</p>