<p>Personally I would have to go with Princeton literature. Princeton has one of the world’s best alumnae system and literature teacher’s include Joyce Carol Oates and Toni Morrison.</p>
<p>(1) MIT-electrical engineering (math and workload are killers)
(2) Stanford-physics
(3) Johns Hopkins-neuroscience</p>
<p>If the science/math grads were relocated into poly sci, history, econ, finance, or lit, I think they would find them easier. Am I a science chauvinist? If the ranking were "interesting" or "enjoyable" rather than "prestigious", I would say history and lit.</p>
<p>It depends on how you define prestige. In terms of usefulness, the most prestigious degree depends on what field you want to go into. Poli sci at Harvard is arguably the best path to becoming a lawyer, finance at Wharton is arguably the best for business, etc. All of these are respectable programs at top-notch universities. It all depends on what type of career you're looking into. If you define prestige in terms of how rigorous it is to get the degree, probably EECS from MIT, which is notoriously difficult.</p>
<p>I'm don't have much knowledge of Latin, but isn't it correct to say that "alumni" is the plural form of "alumnus" and indicates both male and female forms? This doesn't really matter if you are referring to solely the female graduates of Princeton, but I would imagine you are referring to both.</p>
<p>Physics is clearly just the best undergraduate degree -- everyone on here keeps talking about it! :)</p>
<p>Anyway, I'd put Stanford physics at the top of my totally subjective prestige chart, just 'cause that's what I'm doing. Princeton is indeed famous for physics (or so said my freshman-year world civ teacher when I turned it down... gee thanks...). But seriously, there's no difference. It just depends what crowd you're talking to...</p>
<p>To answer the OP's question - a degree in anything from Harvard is the most prestigious. Note, I'm not saying it's the best degree to get, but I think it's indisputable that it's the most prestigious. Let's face it. Like it or not, Harvard is Harvard. There is no such thing as the "Y-bomb" or the "M-bomb", but there is the "H-bomb". Fair or not fair, that's the world we live in. If there is one school that even those people who don't know anything about schools have heard of, it's Harvard. It's not necessarily the 'best' degree to have (depending on how you define 'best'), but it is the most prestigious.</p>
<p>As far as how marketable the degree is in getting you a decent job, I would go with either the EECS degree from MIT or the finance degree from Wharton.</p>
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<p>I would clarify this statement by saying that the reason why the Wharton finance degree is so marketable is because it's a well known gateway to Wall Street banking. Yet the fact is, plenty of MIT engineers take Wall Street banking jobs. I suspect that's because the banks like know that MIT engineers are (obviously) quantitatively strong and they've proven they can work very hard, which is a great asset in those 90-hour/week analyst jobs. </p>
<p>True, it may not be as easy to get a banking job through a MIT engineering degree as it is through a Wharton degree, but on the other hand, a Wharton graduate has basically zero chance of getting an engineering job. Hence, I would assert that the Wharton degree is a more specialized degree and the MIT engineering degree is a more flexible degree.</p>