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If people haven’t heard of Duke, they must not have heard of HYPS either. :rolleyes: “Duke University” does significantly better on Google Trends than “Yale University” or “Princeton University” and is on par or slightly better than “Harvard University” and “Stanford University” – even with “basketball” and “medical” removed from Duke.</p>
<p>“Duke University” fares about the same as “UC Berkeley” and does significantly better than “Cal Berkeley.”</p>
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<p>[NASA</a> - NASA Locations](<a href=“http://www.nasa.gov/about/sites/index.html]NASA”>About NASA - NASA)</p>
<p>Nice try, there is only two locations that the general population and especially internationally people would be aware of, and that’s the control center in Houston and the launch center in Florida.</p>
<p>^ And why on earth would we care about which NASA locations are known by the majority of people?! The only reason to care about being located near NASA is for research/internship possibilities - something that is valid at any NASA location.</p>
<p>The Johns Hopkins University…When the Director of NASA came to Hopkins to speak a few years back he mentioned to me that he had run some numbers prior to his visit and discovered that Hopkins received more NASA research grants than any other university! :)</p>
<p>When you think of Johns Hopkins, you may not think of world leadership in astronomy, but in fact, it is one of our major but often unrecognized achievements. 
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<p>Ahah right. Try Rice University.</p>
<p>really…</p>
<p>[Dollars</a> From Heaven: NASA-funded research small but vital](<a href=“http://www.post-gazette.com/localnews/20030217research0217p2.asp]Dollars”>http://www.post-gazette.com/localnews/20030217research0217p2.asp)</p>
<p>Enjoy that ghetto known as Baltimore</p>
<p>lol. tisk tisk. I will.</p>
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<p>My comment was pretty paraphrased from another CC forum poster who went to UC Berkeley and his friend who went to Duke while they both visited the Germany or Switzerland. :)</p>
<p>Okay, no more arguing. =/ Back on topic.</p>
<p>My impression has always been that the major universities famous in the USA tend to be famous among educated people all over the world. </p>
<p>However, judging from the number of international students even at our not-so-famous, average universities, the international opinion of US colleges in general must be fairly high.</p>
<p>i’d take hong kong over new york any day :)</p>
<p>I agree and all three major universities in Hong Kong would be a top 20-40 university in the US…pretty impressive for just one city (HK Science & Technology, University Of Hong Kong, Chinese University Of HK)</p>
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<p>The Apollo spacecraft were designed and built by Rockwell in Downey, California. That’s in Los Angeles County. The Lunar Rovers were designed and built by Grumman on Long Island, in New York State. The Saturn V Rocket was designed by Werner von Braun, who was German, He came to America after World War II, and subsequently developed rockets at the Huntsville Alabama military program. All of these various parts were brought to Florida for the moon launches. The Florida NASA personnal handled the launch. After the launch, the Houston space center took over the radio contact. Houston can hardly take credit for the entire moon program. The Johnson space center was only built there because Lyndon Johnson had a lot of pork barrel clout in congress. NASA originally wanted the Misson Control center to be located in Florida.</p>
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<p>awwwwwwwwwwww I guess jealousy and eating reality never feels good, does it??? :(</p>
<p>that’s ok. I’m sure whatever school you’ll end up or went to is kinda good-ish. :)</p>
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HAHAHA.
Wow. ridiculous.
You do know that Duke only fares well in certain parts of the world ala Europe, right? In places in Asia, Australia, etc, Duke falls in popularity and will give you a quizzical look. Even in Europe, the renown is not widespread whatsoever.</p>
<p>This same problem doesn’t EXIST for Berkeley. It is known throughout the world.</p>
<p>Hope2getrice- Duke fares even better against Hopkins in Google Trends. :)</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.google.com/trends?q=“duke+university”%2C+“johns+hopkins+university”[/url]”>http://www.google.com/trends?q=“duke+university”%2C+“johns+hopkins+university”</a></p>
<p>In reference to the above post, “Duke University” edges out “UC Berkeley” in the US, India, Canada, China, Australia, the UK, and Germany (which seem to be the 7 regions listed). There seems to be a roughly equal number of hits in Chinese for the two universities.</p>
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<p>hmm. well in the real world, where it matters, that isn’t true, so it’s all good ;)</p>
<p>either way, Duke is not very highly regarded internationally because overseas, they tend to care less about big American sports and frat scene gimmicks and Duke has very few standout programs that actually matter.
but that’s ok ! 
as long as you stay in the US, your degree will be very highly regarded!!! :)</p>
<p>edit: in regards to your edit: I know for a fact that UC Berkeley is MUCH more highly regarded and well known than Duke in places like China, india, and Australia, so…yeah. That Google tool is a piece of FAIL.</p>
<p>Anyways IBClass06:
I think you need to remember that while Duke University only goes by Duke university for the most part, and NOT DU, etc, both UC Berkeley and Johns Hopkins university regularly are called and searched for under such names and citations as: University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, UCB, etc while Johns Hopkins, JHU, Hopkins, are popular for JHU as well.</p>
<p>So, if we factor those all in, both JHU and UCB are stronger names…well…according to “google trends” ;)</p>
<p>edit: and simply searching “Duke” is stupid, because you get results for the Duke of Earl and crap like that, whereas for Hopkins and Berkeley searches respectively, the vast majority of results pertain to the schools.</p>