<p>lol, nice tiering.</p>
<p>Of course the Ivy League status a school untouchable and “tier 1” automatically. Oh lmao.</p>
<p>If you are worried about the “average person” and other random people, then the big name/well more known matters. </p>
<p>If you care more about potential employers, grad schools and those-in-the know I think the fine gradations that you’re trying to make don’t really matter. Basically, I think the Barron’s ratings (large broad groups of reseach universities, LACs, ) are a better guide than U.S. News type numbers to get a sense of prestige.</p>
<p>at least here in michigan where i live not many people (including employers) have never of </p>
<p>Dartmouth
Johns Hopkins
University of Pennsylvania (they all think your talking about Penn State)
Cornell
Brown
and the list goes on</p>
<p>Here in the Midwest
sports=prestige
any school with a top sports team is an excellent university</p>
<p>i do not know why people do not put Harvard in a league of its own when they are talking about prestige. Overall, around the world</p>
<p>Teir 1:Harvard</p>
<p>the rest…</p>
<p>The prestige difference between Harvard and Princeton or Yale may be relatively small in the States. But internationally it is Harvard all the way. Again, i am not into prestige that much. Just proving a point!</p>
<p>In Canada here, people i talk only recently know Dartmouth because of the movie Superbad(sad i know). They do not know UPenn,CalTech… However, HYPSM, Duke, JHU is known here.</p>
<p>What what I’ve heard, UCB is also very prestigious for internationals (especially Asians).</p>
<p>International prestige, especially in Asia, is based primarily on research quality (hence quality of faculty and graduate education) in the sciences and engineering. That’s why UC Berkeley is so famous and prestigious in Asia.</p>
<p>Here’s an interesting, unbiased breakdown:</p>
<p>[College</a> Rankings - Home](<a href=“vwbet-Líder em Cassinos Online no Brasil – Experimente Hoje!-vwbet.com”>http://www.ordoludus.com/)</p>
<p>Overall “Prestige” and value:</p>
<p>[College</a> Rankings - Home](<a href=“http://www.ordoludus.com/top.php?sort=overall&dir=up#data]College”>http://www.ordoludus.com/top.php?sort=overall&dir=up#data)</p>
<p>Thanks for the link!</p>
<p>GoNavyXC</p>
<p>That ranking by Addison Braendel is complete trash, not even worth looking at.</p>
<p>I really think it’s got more quantitative evidence than some of the other rankings I’ve seen.</p>
<p>In any event, I don’t think the tiers really matter. Depends where you live and who you talk to.</p>
<p>
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<p>institution, prestige rank</p>
<p>University of North Carolina 3
Harvard University 6
**University of Oklahoma 19 **
**University of Florida 20 **
University of Notre Dame 23
Dartmouth College 25
University of Pennsylvania 26
Oklahoma State University 30
**University of Nebraska 33 **
California Institute of Technology 35
Massachusetts Institute of Technology 46
Brown University 48
Northwestern University 68 </p>
<p>that’s prestige ranking!!! some “overall prestige ranking” that is.</p>