<p>what is the name recogniiton like in the scientific world? to the average person? are the alumni active? can u make good connections? how does this compare to yale?</p>
<p>If you're talking about undergrad, it has the BEST possible name recognition a college could have. Same as Harvard and Yale.</p>
<p>lols thats good to hear. and yea i was talking about undergrad. what about grad though? whats a good medical schoo to go to from princeton?</p>
<p>harvard medical school</p>
<p>what about cornell or coulmbia medical school?</p>
<p>Undergrad Princeton sciences are excellent. But internationally Princeton has much much lower (relatively) 'ranking' because it has no professional schools (Law, Business, MEdicine). Also because of its much smaller grad programs, relative to other Ivies and top schools (Harvard, Columbia, MIT-non ivy, Chicago), it doesnt have many Nobel Laureates (29) compared to something like Columbia/Harvard's 82/76 respectively. </p>
<p>Bottom line, Princeton undergrad is amazing. Go somewhere else for grad.</p>
<p>^^^^^Unless you like the almost-guaranteed full funding for grad school that you get at Princeton, as opposed to many other places.</p>
<p>Truazn, your comment that students should “go somewhere else for grad [school]” will come as quite a surprise to many scholars. </p>
<p>You are correct that Princeton, without a law, business or medical school lacks some opportunities for professional education, but, in the sciences and humanities, Princeton’s graduate programs are top notch. In the only recent study of which I’m aware, the National Research Council identified Princeton as having the fourth highest number of Ph.D. programs ranked in the top ten nationally. The complete list from the 1995 study (I can’t seem to find a more recent version, please help me if you can) is as follows:</p>
<p>“Universities with Highest Number of [Ph.D.] Programs in the Top 10”</p>
<p>35 Berkeley
31 Stanford<br>
26 Harvard
22 Princeton
20 MIT
19 Cornell
19 Yale
18 Chicago
15 Penn
14 UC San Diego
14 Columbia
14 Michigan
14 Wisconsin</p>
<p><a href="http://www.grad.berkeley.edu/publications/pdf/nrc_rankings_1995.pdf%5B/url%5D">http://www.grad.berkeley.edu/publications/pdf/nrc_rankings_1995.pdf</a> </p>
<p>What makes this even more impressive for Princeton is that, being smaller, it lacked six of the 36 programs being evaluated while nearly all the other schools on the above list had departments in all the surveyed areas. The same study ranked Princeton’s arts and humanities faculty as second in the nation (after Berkeley). In fact, Berkeley is the school that stands out for its impressive caliber. It is very large but the achievements of its faculty and students put most of the Ivy League schools to shame.</p>
<p>As for the Nobel Prize, I see that you’re taking your numbers from the article on that public domain online encyclopedia that has become so popular and is edited by anonymous contributors. I’m afraid that, as is often the case with information on that website, there are many errors and the number of “affiliations” for Columbia (as well as for Harvard, Princeton and Yale) are much higher than the numbers claimed by the schools themselves on their own websites. </p>
<p>It is, of course, difficult to say how a Nobel Prize winner relates to a school. The only such attribution used by the Nobel Prize Committee itself is the university at which the scholar was teaching or researching at the time the prize was awarded. (That may, in fact, be long after the work that led to the prize.) Here is a link to the official list:</p>
<p><a href="http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/lists/universities.html%5B/url%5D">http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/lists/universities.html</a> </p>
<p>Columbia (your alma mater, I believe) is extremely well represented with 16 Nobel scholars, ahead of Princeton (which has ten) but behind Harvard (31), Cal Tech (17), MIT (17) and Stanford (17). Harvard, Stanford, U. of Chicago and Columbia all have medical schools which are the source of many of the awards. If Nobel prizes for medicine are removed from the lists, then the list looks like this:</p>
<p>20 Harvard
16 Stanford
15 Berkeley, U. of Chicago
13 Cambridge, Columbia
12 Cal Tech, MIT
9 Princeton, Max Planck Institute</p>
<p>Columbia’s showing is very impressive but hardly dominant as your source suggests.</p>
<p>Finally, Princeton has actually done extremely well of late in the Nobel ‘competition’ if you want to see it that way. In the last fifteen years, Princeton has had 13 direct affiliations with Nobel Prize winners who were either current faculty or alumni. (I’m not positive, but I believe this might be the largest number for any single institution during that period of time.)</p>
<p>In some ways, this is all like splitting hairs. All of these schools are wonderful both for undergraduate and graduate study. Also, graduate students choose their institutions based on which institution is strongest in their area of study. They generally don’t choose a graduate school based on the university’s general reputation.</p>
<p>how does haravrd med rank with columbia or cornell med?</p>
<p>how does harvard med rank with columbia or cornell med?</p>