<p>which is a stronger university overall in terms of prestige, faculty and opportunities after graduation?
i am interested in international studies.</p>
<p>Totally different tiers JHU is a top Tier university, NYU has become a degree mill, Sexton has turned a once proud university into a franchise, unless you plan to go there for graduate school the undergraduate school is mere fodder for sexton’s ambitions to surpass harvard and yale, sorry to tell you. If you are interested in international studies JHU is wher eit is at, the fact that you asked about level of prestige shows you really need to read up on your universities more.</p>
<p>NYU is a very good school, but it is generally ranked below JHU. </p>
<p>For international studies, you should consider that Hopkins allows students to apply for a 5 year BS/MS with the JHU School of Advanced International Studies (I don’t know how selective that is, but it is a very real advantage to doing JHU UG).</p>
<p>"(I don’t know how selective that is, but it is a very real advantage to doing JHU UG). "</p>
<p>It is a highly selective program. It probably should not even be a UG consideration, as so few will earn that priveledge. The School is basically taking only the top candidate as of Jr Year, and only the ones that can afford the time and money to do a 5th year.</p>
<p>JHU International Studies is a top program. NYU’s is not.</p>
<p>I knew I read this somewhere…Only about 6 ppl per year get into the 5 year MA program</p>
<p><a href=“http://catalog.jhu.edu/artsci/international.pdf[/url]”>http://catalog.jhu.edu/artsci/international.pdf</a></p>
<p>Bluejay…I would read up on my universities a bit more myself. You are more than welcome to believe that JHU is a more presitigious school than NYU. You may chose to take issue with John Sexton’s expansion plans…but to call NYU a degree mill whereas it was once a proud university shows total lack of knowledge of NYU’s history and rankings over the years.</p>
<p>A word from the last high schooler with this dilemma <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/johns-hopkins-university/911236-admitted-hs-didnt-go-now-want-transfer.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/johns-hopkins-university/911236-admitted-hs-didnt-go-now-want-transfer.html</a></p>
<p>New York offers much more than Baltimore but JHU is ranked higher. Then again, rankings aren’t everything.</p>
<p>I have my own opinion and it has become a degree mill, I am not talking of course about the nyu new york campus, I am talking about nyu abu dhabi. Let me be loud and clear as a new yorker. Sexton has done nothing for NYU, has a former Harvard Law Professor he is obsessed with NYU becoming harvard. In that vein he “bought” an engineering school for NYU that has its own campus not even near to the school. And he is building like no tomorrow yet undergrads do not see any value to their education. I know personally from friends who have siblings at NYU that Sexton is gutting the school. He is soo obsessed with competing with Harvard that he is thinking the bigger the better. And to open up a degree school in a country where if you are a Jewish or Gay student the advisors at NYU will suggest you not to go there is a travesty to the core spirit of American Academia, thankfully most scholars understand this and this is why even now most of the nyu abu dhabi professorships are not filled. Sexton is the worst type of man, he has turned a once proud school into nothing more than a product. No student likes Sexton, only the donors love him but if you want to look at “rankings” NYU has barely moved a blip which shows money isn’t everything to a school, its about the philosophy of the university. JHU has a small endowment compared to other schools of the same calibre Columba HYP STanford UChicago etc but the ethos of JHU is one of the pursuit of knowledge, not of the pursuit of big=better. end rant</p>
<p>NYU in NYC has absolutely become a degree mill. The only reason to attend is people want to live in the City. I am from NYC and no one who lives here from any of the private schools or specialized high schoold wants to attend for undergrad. They are a monster who is slowly taking oveer NY. Who wouldn’t want to go to school in the Village? But that is the only reason to come here. Its hard to get in because soemone from Iowa would much rather live int he City than in Baltimore. JHU is shoulders above in research, faculty and worldwide recognition. NYU just pumps them out, thousands at a time. If you are interested in worldclass research, a real campus (NYU has none, and Washington Square Park does not count) and the true undergraduation experience, then Johns Hopkins is the place</p>
<p>If NYU wasn’t in greenwich village, it wouldn’t be nearly as competitive as it is now.
JHU is a stronger university academic and research wise with better professors and all.
NYU’s best things are stern, tisch and maybe gallatin.
the only reason someone would give up JHU for NYU would be be/c of NYU’s location.
JHU makes the most of its “modest” location.
Im from the NYC area–Baltimore doesnt even compare to NYC. but JHU outshines NYU.</p>
<p>Exactly right, NYU unfortunately has become what many academics feared at the start of “education globalization”. NYU in 2005 had a lot of potential but went the wrong way, JHU on the other hand was lucky. After a string of so so presidents, former president Brody and now Daniels understands that focusing on the overall JHU experience and not the size of the presence is what makes a university a great university. One of my best friends from HS who was 3 years older than me was even shocked by the change from freshman year to when I arrive due to the creation of an actual campus. Also there truly is a cultural renaissance going on in JHU. While I disagree with former Dean Falk about the merger of the German Department with the Romance Language department as well as the selling of the Spielman Villa, the administration at the time was divided between the old guard who saw JHU merely as a science school, and the new guard led by Falk who realized JHU was originally a juggernaut in the liberal arts. With the new Dean I think initiatives that failed to pass in my time due to lack of administrative support such as a religious studies program will go through now. Look having graduate programs abroad isn’t a bad thing (or else Hopkins in Nanjing would be the epitome of hypocrisy". But undergrad should always be on a home campus, Yale’s new undergrad school in Singapore, NYUAD just show the how universities have lost focus. Its a reason why as an alum who is also an active donor, if JHU ever went on this path, I would completely cut off any further contributions to the school.</p>