<p>Taking your personal experiences into account, could you please tell us how well stanford is known in a particular region in the world? I am from Texas, and Stanford is pretty much known to everybody around me.</p>
<p>Worldwide.</p>
<p>................Global :)</p>
<p>Come on Stanford is known accross the universe! Man I live in the UAE and the other day a 6 year old was talking about how great Stanford was!</p>
<p>Everyone knows Stan, man.</p>
<p>Stanford may not have Harvard's name but it is pretty good.</p>
<p>wow, even in the faraway land like UAE? do you guys think that besides the h-bomb, stanford is better known than any other top schools such as princeton, columbia, yale, or mit globally? it woud be really cool if people give specific locations and accounts!</p>
<p>I live in Kuwait, and yeah, Stanford's big here too. Harvard and Yale are just as known, Princeton, yeah, but less... But MIT? Over here, not known at all. Columbia? Not really.</p>
<p>^Well in the UAE many students don't know any american universities (including the H-bomb). However those that do know any generally know HYPSM only. Actually here more people know Oxford and Cambridge than Harvard.</p>
<p>Stanford and Harvard are the best-known American universities.</p>
<p>If you go to an international, American or British private school in the UAE, you're more likely to know about those schools than, say, a person in a public school in the UAE.</p>
<p>wow thanks for the info guys. anybody from asia, europe, or africa?</p>
<p>my family in china does not know stanford (until we told them, that is). they know harvard yale cambridge and oxford. its a safe bet that this applies to like... at least 90% of all urban chinese people.</p>
<p>enlightening.. i guess stanford's fame is not as ubiquitous as some people have guessed.. my korean friends tell me that stanford and yale are second most well known foreign school after the h-bomb in korea, and most koreans know those three schools. anywhere else?</p>
<p>Well I know I guy in Kazakhastan who told me that Stanford was very well known even there!</p>
<p>In Taiwan, the top two that everyone knew were Harvard and MIT. Most people knew of Stanford but didn't know how it ranks relative to any other university in America.</p>
<p>These sorts of questions come up so often, and the crucial thing is "by whom?". </p>
<p>Higher education is also becoming more global so the answers change with time. As an example I grew up in small town UK 20-25 years ago in a family involved in education so I would probably have known more than most of my contemporaries. I knew of Yale & Harvard as the US equivalent of Oxbridge. I'd heard of the Ivy League but probably couldn't say what universities were in it. I'd heard of Berkeley, due to Robert Oppenheimer and 60s radicalism. I'd never heard of Stanford - if anything it was a misspelling of the next town down the road! In my small town, 100+ miles north of London, the University of Evansville would be much better known because they have a campus just outside the town: I've never seen Evansville mentioned on CC. </p>
<p>Interestingly, despite the UK being rumoured to be such a class based society, prestige type questions like this are far more common on CC than equivalent websites in the UK.</p>
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<p>Not so sure about that.</p>
<p>i do not think the well-knowness of a school necessarily has to be tied to its prestige... but that's my opinion.</p>
<p>haha you should say why you think so...=)</p>