<p>^that may be true. i came from hong kong but i didn’t leave after graduation; i got my first job in the US and i still live here. i never worry about what the people in beijing think about the schools i went. chances are the first job you apply to isn’t gonna be overseas. by the time you work overseas, you should be at the point where it’s your job performance/experience carries you, not where you went for undergrad. as far as applying for foreign grad schools goes, i am positive that brown/northwestern undergrads do just as well (last year, two northwestern grads won the gates cambridge scholarship which requires admission to cambridge university first). to me, this “global” prestige thing is the last thing one needs to look at unless he/she is a foreign student and may go back home after graduation.</p>