<p>SuperPippo, please stop making ridiculous claims and then voicing support for my university.</p>
<p>Duke’s presence abroad will <em>soon</em> be greatly bolstered due to their $500 million dollar MBA campus expansion across multiple global cities like St. Petersburg, Russia; Dubai, UAE; Shanghai, China; New Delhi, India; and London, UK</p>
<p>Northwestern’s MBA alliance with Hong Kong’s (HKUST) has greatly bolstered it’s reputation in Asia… Northwestern’s Kellogg Alliance with HKUST has made it the best MBA program in Asia. :)</p>
<p>Hopkins is known in China because the Peking Medical College was modelled after Hopkins’ medical school. In China, they call Peking Medical College “Baby Johns Hopkins”… In Korea, there is a renown actor that plays a doctor in a popular Korean soap opera film who always say “That is not what we do back at Johns Hopkins…” yadi yadi yada…</p>
<p>I agree, I would take Hong Kong over NYC anyday…</p>
<p>^ So THAT explains all the Korean Internationals on campus, haha! :D</p>
<p>The Hopkins Nanjing center, Singapore cooperation, Italy/Bologna center help a lot too.
Plus, SAIS counts numerous alums from European, Middle-Eastern, Asian, etc countries. The Hopkins presence is alive and always growing.</p>
<p>Sure…I guess why Houston is known as Space City.</p>
<p>^I’m sure Rice is a wonderful school. It’s just not a major picking school for NASA :)</p>
<p>Hope2getrice, there’s nothing wrong with Google Trends. You’ve noted the problem above. The point is that it will chart exact terms and you need to be creative in how those terms are entered. For example, schools with names that are common are very difficult to assess. Duke is one of those. It’s a surname, a title of nobility and the name of an important power company. By necessity then, individuals searching for the school are probably entering the term “Duke University.” Schools like Berkeley are even more difficult. You need to guess whether users are searching for “University of California at Berkeley,” or “UC Berkeley,” etc. If you compare the frequency of searches for “Duke University” graphed against “UC Berkeley” you’ll get a different result. See the following:</p>
<p>[Google</a> Trends: “duke university”, “UC Berkeley”](<a href=“http://www.google.com/trends?q=“duke+university”%2C+“UC+Berkeley”+&ctab=0&geo=all&date=ytd&sort=0]Google”>http://www.google.com/trends?q=“duke+university”%2C+“UC+Berkeley”+&ctab=0&geo=all&date=ytd&sort=0)</p>
<p>For schools with names that are more strongly identified with the institution than with a business or a city, there is less opportunity for confusion. Harvard, Princeton, Stanford and Yale are probably all searched for using just those single words. Your screen name points to one that would present an even greater challenge than Duke. If you want to see a large number of searches try ‘Rice’!</p>
<p>[Google</a> Trends: “duke university”, “UC Berkeley” , rice](<a href=“http://www.google.com/trends?q=“duke+university”%2C+“UC+Berkeley”+%2C+rice&ctab=0&geo=all&date=ytd&sort=0]Google”>http://www.google.com/trends?q=“duke+university”%2C+“UC+Berkeley”+%2C+rice&ctab=0&geo=all&date=ytd&sort=0)</p>
<p>Google Trends is fascinating and informative but it’s possible to be fooled by the results if you aren’t careful in constructing your comparison terms.</p>
<p>But I would hardly call Google tracking an effective indicator of opinions of the school or their reputations abroad. It’s too objective, as silly as that sounds. It’s just a number.</p>
<p>Google Trends for “rice university” did give me an interesting result, though: Korean was the top language, beating out English.</p>
<p>^^ also, a HUGE proportion of schools like DUke’s, UNC’s popularity, etc, comes from sports following, lol. not all, but a large enough proportion to make a difference.</p>
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Many would say that it doesn’t matter. In other words, nobody cares if people know Carolina for basketball or its top 10 marine science, sociology, and classics programs as long as it’s easily recognized. As a slightly better example, people recognize Ohio State as a great school, but Swarthmore typically gets a “who?” response. </p>
<p>In any case, I think both are well-known enough for both academics and athletics.</p>
<p>Does Georgia Tech has a name abroad?</p>
<p>Harvard is probably the most popular university on earth. However, there are several universities that are as well-respected as Harvard, and these are:</p>
<p>Cambridge, UK
Oxford, UK
Stanford
Yale
UC Berkeley
MIT</p>
<p>Probably
Princeton
Caltech</p>
<p>My experience in Italy, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Malaysia and the UK suggests that the following schools are well-known and very well-respected:</p>
<p>Harvard, Oxford, Cambridge, Yale, Stanford, UC Berkeley and MIT.</p>
<p>Runners up:
Group 1 - Princeton, Caltech, Columbia, Cornell, UPenn, Michigan, JHU and Northwestern
Group 2 - UCLA, NYU, Duke, UIUC, UT-Austin, Georgia Tech, CMU</p>
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<p>Yes, it does. Amongst engineers and scientists and computer scientists, Georgia Tech is a solid school or on par with CMU.</p>
<p>Michigan over UCLA, CMU, and Duke in East Asia? No way, man. :)</p>
<p>Oops, you were RML. I know you and Alexandre are Michigan alums. :)</p>
<p>Michigan over Duke and CMU, is probable. Michigan over UCLA in East Asia is admitedly unlikely. I would say in East Asia, Michigan = UCLA > Duke = CMU.</p>
<p>Duke is definitely more well-known in Asian than Michigan based on my international travels. I do think that Michigan has the edge in Europe besides England where Duke is vastly better known.</p>
<p>^ Definitely, due to Michigan’s strong law, MBA, engineering and liberal arts programs, perhaps. For example, several senators of the Philippines are Michigan alumni, including the former Senate President, Edgardo Angara, who’s also the former President of the Philippines most prestigious university, University of the Philippines. A strong presidential aspirant who placed 2nd in the last election, Atty. Miriam Santiago is a Michigan Law Alumna. The University of Michigan is often mentioned every time their names are called or something is written about them such as autobiographies, resumes, etc… </p>
<p>It also probably helped that Michigan has a strong MBA program. Michigan-Ross alumni have strong presence in the region. In fact, they have a strong and active alumni association which is based in Hong Kong. Several members are some of the who’s who in their respective region.</p>
<p>CMU is too tech focused. It lacks diversity in terms of course offerings. It’s MBA is weak. Doesn’t have a law school. Average in liberal arts education.</p>
<p>UCLA is popular. But for some reason, it’s not as respected as Michigan due to lack alumni presence in the region. But I could be wrong on this.</p>
<p>Duke is too undergrad focused. Most smart Asians would rather stay home for undergrad, unless they’re offered full scholarship, then they’re just at the best local schools. But many of them seek education abroad for grad and postgrad education.</p>
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<p>Nope. I went to Girton College, Cambridge, UK.</p>
<p>Maybe Alexandre is, but not me.</p>
<p>RML, I’ve lived for my whole life (though it seems shorter than yours 
) in East Asia. And trust me, there’re a bunch of UCLA alums here. Definitely UCLA is as respected as Michigan, if not more.</p>