How prestigious is NYU considered?

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<p>Fordham has better FA though so people go there instead many times.</p>

<p>Also why resurrect this thread from the grave?</p>

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<p>I would put NYU around the same as GW. Better than BU, worse than BC, UNC, and USC.</p>

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<p>Will the NYU name serve as an advantage on job resum</p>

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<p>I think NYU’s most valuable asset is its name. People in the US tend to associate “New York” with things that are big, smart, and wealthy. Foreigners all want to visit NYC and many are accustomed to their top universities being named after their biggest cities. Nobody anywhere ever says “New York University? Where is that?”</p>

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Exactly. The prestige of New York University is derived from the fact that it is New York University. New York City is the cultural capital of the world; as John Lennon said, “Today, America is the Roman Empire, and New York is Rome itself.”</p>

<p>Many people I know respect it less than other New York City schools because of its terrible reputation for screwing its students over with debt. It is #1… For student debt, exceeding the GDPs of 12 countries.</p>

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<p>The MBA and Law school programs are prestigious, along with Tisch. The undergraduate school is not considered prestigious by any means, but it is a good school in a great city.</p>

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<p>A LOT of famous people have gone to NYU. Celebrities especially.
Also, Spiderman goes to an NYU-based university in the comics ;)</p>

<p>NYU is up there. It’s underrated in these forums.</p>

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<p>IMO, its most valuable asset is location, and speciality schools (law, biz and Tisch). Living in Manhattan for four years is extremely attractive to many 18-year-olds. NYU could be ranked 20 spots lower and it wouldn’t matter to the high-schoolers.</p>

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While never a good reason to consider a college, it just so happens that he is a Columbia student in the film…</p>

<p>Anyway, NYU is generally a prestigious school with world renowned film and arts schools. It also has strong professional schools. It gets plenty of press, of course, from being the biggest private university in the country and its location in NYC. It is extremely popular, given the number of applications it receives, and is usually one of the most desired colleges for students. I think applicants think it would be a cool and chic place to go to school and it has a sense of glamour to it…</p>

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<p>“IMO, its most valuable asset is location”</p>

<p>The location is a “love it or hate it” thing that probably turns off as many people as it attracts. The name is pure gold all over the world…easy to say, easy to spell, self-explanatory regarding its geography, classy-, intelligent-, and sophisticated-sounding.</p>

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Are you sure? I thought Spiderman went to “Empire State University” which was a pun of New York University.</p>

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<p>Peter Parker definitely got the spider chemical at Columbia, but I think he was just visiting, wasn’t he?</p>

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<p>Okay, first off, it does not matter where Peter Parker went to school (for the record, he went to Empire State University which was modeled after Columbia but resides in Greenwich Village (and close to Washington Square Park). Thus, it’s a mix of both (Indeed, there is even a dorm called Brittany Hall at Empire State University which is a real Hall at NYU).</p>

<p>And second, if it did matter, the Xavier Institute is better.</p>

<p>And third, NYU is a respected school but comes with a hefty price tag that may not be worth it. You have your mix of students and the “love it or hate it thing” is true in regards to an individual’s ability to adjust to a city life. NYU is filled with the Stern undergrad/conservative kids and the free spirited Tisch kids. This is especially hilarious when the two polar opposites are roommates.</p>

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<p>Reading this forum forced me to reply.</p>

<p>We have to assume that intelligent people will analyze a question raking note of the extend to which they understand what is being asked, or more importantly the information underlying their answer.</p>

<p>For those whom judge NYU at all, which of you attend or attended NYU, USC, BC of the like? If you haven’t attended, where did you get your information on these schools? US News, Wikipedia, a college booklet?</p>

<p>I attend NYU currently, and love it here academically. The social scene however is not my style, being from California. However, I’m interested in finance and believe being so close gives me an advantage other college kids simply don’t have.</p>

<p>How can you judge a universities academic programs if you haven’t taken a course there? How do you have any idea about the professors, curriculum or learning environment? </p>

<p>You just be guessing and or judging, and doing so with so much confidence you believe your words to be facts.</p>

<p>This frustrates the crap out of me, especially because it seems to come from kids at “elite” universities, who should be much smarter than this. I was recently admitted into UPenn CAS as a transfer student (want more of a college campus vibe) but these judgmental inexperienced ignorant elitists are making me want to stay here.</p>

<p>By the way, this is not projected at every ivy league kid or something of the sort, just the unintelligent university analysis that was conducted some time ago on this thread</p>

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<p>By the way excuse the grammar I’m using an iPhone</p>

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<p>NYU is the only school in the planet where in the ten minutes between classes located in two separate buildings a few streets apart within the complex junble of city blocks known as The Village, you can almost get run over by a crazy Cab while crossing the public street, pick up a slice of pizza at the small pizza shop next to your NYU building, trip over a sleeping homeless man on the public sidewalk, get a small bottle of whiskey at the liquor store next to the NYU building is located, get scared to death by almost stepping on a 14 inch rat on the City sidewalk running from heaping trash to heaping trash left on the public sidewalk, get propositioned by a male hooker on the city sidewalk, get a shoe shine with the public sidewalk vendor and still have 2 minutes to smoke part of a cigarette.</p>

<p>is this for you?</p>

<p>or would you rather spend the ten minutes strolling through the wonderful and lovely gardens:</p>

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<p>while a few birds fly by overhead and chirp a bit in the quiet backgound of the water flowing out of the fountains in the nearby ponds as you relax your brain from the intensity of the previous Physics or Bioengineering class taught by the latest winner of the equivalent of the Nobel Prize in engineering.</p>

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<p>^Whatever the case may be, I’d rather live in NYU than in Japan, japanoko ;D</p>

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<p>Ehh, I’d rather work in Stark Industries Research Lab. After all, Tony Stark went to MIT!</p>

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<p>As a job, sure. Go to starks. But I was talking more about an institution.</p>

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<p>Sometimes I feel like NYU gets some hate because it costs so much with so little financial aid. Also, I guess some of the schools are much better than the others (Stern, Tisch), but overall I think it’s definitely got some name recognition.</p>

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<p>“NYU is the only school in the planet where in the ten minutes between classes located in two separate buildings a few streets apart within the complex junble of city blocks known as The Village, you can almost get run over by a crazy Cab while crossing the public street, pick up a slice of pizza at the small pizza shop next to your NYU building, trip over a sleeping homeless man on the public sidewalk, get a small bottle of whiskey at the liquor store next to the NYU building is located, get scared to death by almost stepping on a 14 inch rat on the City sidewalk running from heaping trash to heaping trash left on the public sidewalk, get propositioned by a male hooker on the city sidewalk, get a shoe shine with the public sidewalk vendor and still have 2 minutes to smoke part of a cigarette.”</p>

<p>Boston University students do all that on a 3-minute walk to Fenway Park, though sometimes it’s tough to tell the difference between the 14-inch rat and a visiting Yankee fan.</p>