<p>well I live in Australia...</p>
<p>If anyone hear claims to know anything about american universities then they'd definitely know stanford. But I would say that Harvard, Yale, are more well known here. Princeton and Columbia to a less extent.</p>
<p>When I told my family in China that I got into Stanford, they had all heard of it. I doubt that they actually know anything about the school, but the name is recognized.</p>
<p>Not that this should really matter though...I think that any serious employer (no matter where they lived) looking to hire somebody would recognize the Stanford name, as well as HYPM.</p>
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<p>If anyone hear claims to know anything about american universities then they'd definitely know stanford. But I would say that Harvard, Yale, are more well known here. Princeton and Columbia to a less extent.
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<p>I also live in Australia, i agree with the whoole thing about Harvard and Yale etc. As one of "younger" posters on this forum, teenagers my age know of Harvard and Yale and sometimes Princeton, while it is rare to find a 14/15 who knows of Columbia, MIT, Brown and Stanford etc.</p>
<p>Interestingly, some know of Wellesley and other womens colleges because of a certain simpsons epoisode, featuring lisa in the spelling bee.hehe.</p>
<p>Yeah... that's really depressing.</p>
<p>After all, it's not like some teenager in australia is going to give you a job. Perhaps the only concern is politics, and then things like family name, background etcc... matter more.</p>
<p>wow, hey jimmyeatworld, we are from the same hometown! (i just clicked on my thing on facebook and you popped up)</p>
<p>small world, huh? my mother is actually in changchun right now.</p>
<p>Lol I don't want to say this but from what I've heard, Harvard and Berkeley are the best known.</p>
<p>familarity of the schools's name (in Japan):</p>
<p>1 - Harvard, Oxford, Cambridge
2 - Berkeley, Yale, UCLA, MIT, Michigan, NYU
3 - Yale, Princeton, Columbia, Cornell</p>
<p>Prestige of the school (in Japan):</p>
<p>1 - Harvard, Oxford, Cambridge
2 - Berkeley, MIT, Yale, Columbia
3 - Stanford, Chicago, Princeton</p>
<p>familarity of the schools's name (in the Philippines):</p>
<p>1 - Harvard, Oxford, Cambridge
2 - Berkeley, Yale, UCLA, Michigan, NYU
3 - Yale, Stanford, MIT, Columbia, Cornell </p>
<p>Prestige of the school (in the Philippines):</p>
<p>1 - Harvard, Oxford, Cambridge
2 - Berkeley, MIT, Yale, U of London (LSE, Imperial, UCL, Kings')
3 - Stanford, Michigan, Columbia, Chicago, UCLA</p>
<p>familarity of the schools's name (in Singapore):</p>
<p>1 - Harvard, Oxford, Cambridge
2 - Berkeley, MIT, Stanford, Yale, UCLA, NYU, Chicago, Johns Hopkins, U of London (LSE, Imperial, UCL, King's), Bristol, Warwick, Edinburgh
3 - Columbia, Cornell, Princeton </p>
<p>Prestige of the school (in Singapore):</p>
<p>1 - Harvard, Oxford, Cambridge
2 - Berkeley, MIT, Yale, Chicago, Stanford, Duke, Columbia, Johns Hopkins, U of London (LSE, Imperial, UCL, King's), Bristol, Warwick, Edinburgh
3 - Michigan, UCLA, Cornell</p>
<p>sansai, did you just make those up? Or are they taken from some sort of survey, and if that's the case, how do they measure popularity?</p>
<p>Hey, firebird, that's really cool. I don't think I've ever met anybody my age in America from Changchun. I have family there too (my mom's entire side of the family, actually).</p>
<p>i highly doubt that stanford is not as well known as berkeley anywhere in the world.</p>
<p>Haha, someone should run an unscientific survey at the Intl forum...I've always been curious.</p>
<p>Of course, at the end of the day, it's always cool to have people in a foreign land recongnize your university's name, but what matters is that the guy who's hiring you respects the name. I think HPYSM are confortably, and probably equally, strong in that regard within the US.</p>
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<p>Hehe, I went ahead and did it. :p</p>
<p>timetochill, believe what you will, but your claim is very strong and easily countered. All that one has to do is find one place in the world where Berkeley is known just a tiny bit more than Stanford. Easy. And anyway, you base your belief on what?</p>
<p>Good point, DRab. I guess my claim was short-sightedly based upon what a few of my friends from Asia and South America told me. To be honest, I am not sure how Berkeley is well known internationally compared to Stanford, and I guess that is why I want people from around the world to enlighten me :)</p>
<p>Yay. I admire your reasonableness.</p>
<p>I'm from india and Stanford and MIT are really well known here for their engineering schools apart from Harvard for its business school. Berkeley is not as well known.</p>
<p>cool! what are other schools well known in india?</p>
<p>People here are aware of the Ivy League as an entity, although they are not familiar with the individual universities constituting it, apart from Harvard and to a certain extent, Princeton. Purdue is known mostly because of its large Indian community.</p>