<p>Hey I'm from UK and was wondering how well known Imperial College is in the states? How is its overall reputation when compared to other top uk universities (except oxbridge) such as LSE, UCL etc.?</p>
<p>This is in overall reputation</p>
<p>Not particularly well known among your average American. For many Americans, even Oxford and Cambridge are a bit hazy - they know those two names but if you said Trinity they’d ask “Connecticut or Texas” and Christ’s College they would dismiss as something likely to be a dying evangelical college ripe for takeover by a for-profit.</p>
<p>LSE’s brand has some currency over here. Others like Edinborough (forgive me if I butchered the spelling), Sandhurst (I heard a prince went there), St. Andrews (though in the spirit of Trinity more Americans may think it’s a golf course) might ring familiar. </p>
<p>If you’re talking about American academics rather than your average american, then you might be able to move past plain old name recognition and get some folks who can actually articulate reputations of a few UK schools, but probably not many.</p>
<p>hey thanks for the reply. So does LSE have a better reputation in the US than Imperial?</p>
<p>Not saying it has a better reputation, just that more people have heard of LSE than have heard of Imperial. So that is to say LSE has a reputation, Imperial largely does not.</p>
<p>Again, if we’re talking about a specific subpopulation here, like investment bankers or professors or something like that, the answer could be totally different.</p>
<p>It depends on who you’re asking.</p>
<p>The layman may have no knowledge of Imperial, but may have, at some point, heard of LSE. </p>
<p>In academia will know of Imperial and think quite highly of that. </p>
<p>So it really depends on what you plan to do with your degree. If you want to go to graduate school in the US, then yes, Imperial would good; it’s reputation is very good in it’s areas. If you want to go right into the working/professional role, then it may not be the best choice.</p>
<p>If you aren’t a US citizen or legal permanent resident, it will be almost impossible for you to get a job here right out of college anyway because of the work visa restrictions. Your best option would be to find an employer in the UK that also has offices in the US, and eventually apply for a job transfer to one of the offices here.</p>
<p>Quick question: why do you care? Imperial is an outstanding university. If your question implies you eventually want to work in the US, bear in mind that the US economy is in ever worse shape than Britain’s, unemployment is higher and jobs are scarcer. What you should do is go to Imperial and then apply to an American graduate school or, alternatively, go work for a corporation in the UK and seek to do a work exchange to the US. The US visa system is simply a nightmare and unlike Canada, Australia and the UK, has no highly skilled migrant program.</p>