<p>Hi,</p>
<p>So just out of curiosity, what are the most famous US brand names in terms of colleges in Asia? I know that HYPSM and a few state schools like Berkeley and Michigan are very famous, but what are some others? For example, how well would top US schools like Vanderbilt, WUSTL, USC, etc. fare in Asia?</p>
<p>It depends on who you are asking. A portion of Koreans, Chinese, Indians etc. are familiar with all the best U.S. schools, but this because they have considered applying to a U.S. school or know someone who is. If you ask the general Asian populace, however, I doubt that they will be able to name any school outside the Ivies (even MIT and Caltech don’t have as much weight).</p>
<p>Harvard
Stanford
Yale, UC Berkeley, MIT, Caltech</p>
<ul>
<li>slight gap -</li>
</ul>
<p>Columbia, Penn, Chicago, Duke, Michigan, Cornell, UCLA, JHU, Northwestern, UVa </p>
<p>Emory is not prestigious in Asia.</p>
<p>billabongboy9828: MIT and Caltech, especially the former, are BIG in Asia.</p>
<p>^ absolutely, especially MIT which accepts ONLY the best of the best Asian students.</p>
<p>Harvard
Stanford
Yale, UC Berkeley, MIT, Caltech, Princeton</p>
<ul>
<li>slight gap -</li>
</ul>
<p>Columbia, Penn, Chicago, Duke, Michigan, Cornell, UCLA, JHU, Northwestern, UVa</p>
<p>It depends what type of people you are talking to, those who are more informed about colleges in the US know the schools the way those in the US do.
However, for the majority, although they love to flaunt the “IVY LEAGUE” name, they don’t know which schools are Ivies. They think Harvard is the best, by far. Even Yale, has Harvard rejects or something.
The schools considered very Ivy-like are Harvard, Yale, Stanford and MIT.
Princeton is actually slightly underrated, I think it’s because the school focuses more on undergrads. The other Ivies people may recognise are (as already mentioned) Princeton and Columbia. Brown, Dartmouth, Cornell and UPenn aren’t so well known.
The public schools that are most famous are the big research universities such as UCLA.</p>
<p>Anyone in Asia planning to attend college in the US knows a lot better though.</p>
<p>Bibliography: My knowlege and experience in life</p>
<p>Ivy League, and some know Ivy League Plus. If you ask anyone about liberal arts colleges they’ll ask you why you want to do fine arts, and be suspicious if you’re a guy. [India]</p>
<p>^ both Penn and Cornell have great reputaton in Asia. They’re not household names, but are prestigious for those who care, and are more regarded than UCLA.</p>
<p>^True, and from what I know UCB is considered superior to UCLA. Penn and Cornell are truly famous here. Ohh and most people will be suprised when you tell them MIT and Stanford are not Ivy. Also, Darthmouth is unknown.</p>
<p>Edit: I was actually shocked at the amount of bashing Cornell recieves on this board. Out here it’s considered WAYY more prestigious. Well above UPenn, for example.</p>
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<p>I’m not surprised. Asians generally consider engineering and physical sciences as tough programs and Cornell is quite strong on those areas. That’s probably why MIT has a stonger name in Asia than Princeton or Yale and Berkeley than UCLA and some Ivies.</p>
<p>I’m asian and I live outside US
I think most of students in asian dont know good liberal art colleges such as william, amherst,smith, vassar and many more.
They only know ivy league and University of …chicago, cal.</p>
<p>Harvard
UC Berkeley
Stanford
MIT
Columbia
Chicago
UCLA
JHU</p>
<p>All engineering or science schools.</p>
<p>^ Michigan has a top-ranked engineering program. Why that omission??</p>
<p>^It’s not really well-known outside of North America and Europe for some reason.</p>
<p>Lol, then again, not all Asians are that well informed. I’ve seen on (Indian) TV and movies and just day to day convos that pretty much, studying at any college in the US compared to India is prestigious and worthwhile. (though India’s been putting out some good schools themselves).</p>
<p>Notle Dame, Emoly, and Vandelbilt ;)</p>
<p>It is fairly represented by the ARWU rankings.</p>
<p>[ARWU</a> 2010 Press Release](<a href=“http://www.arwu.org/ARWU_2010_press_release.jsp]ARWU”>http://www.arwu.org/ARWU_2010_press_release.jsp)</p>
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Sure, Michigan only has more than 100 years of history in China. “From the 1890s to the 1950s, more students from China attended U-M than any other U.S. university. Among those students were: Dr Wu Ta-You, father of Chinese research physics… and Dr Wu Yi-Fang, China’s first woman college president (PhD 1928 Barbour Scholar)”.</p>
<p>Today, Michigan has established joint institutes and major partnerships with top China institutions such as Peking University, Shanghai Jiao Tong, Tsinghua and Beijing Normal. At the request of the Chinese Ministry of Education, Michigan hosted the Michigan-China University Leadership Forum in 2006, 2008 and again in 2010.</p>
<p>There are more than a thousand students from China enrolled at Michigan each year, and tens of thousands of alumni from the Greater China area. Not very well known indeed.</p>
<p>But then, how would you know. How long have you been working in Asia?</p>
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Burk-ree…</p>
<p>Come on guys, I know a lot of great schools but I’m just stating the opinions of the Asian people who I’ve met and/or associated with. Which is a lot of people.
I think Cornell and Penn are great schools, it was just that people knew UCLA well out of the publics.</p>