<p>Universities: Duke, UPenn, D-Mouth, Cornell.</p>
<p>Even though they are all stellar schools, which one (or two) are more internationally well-known.</p>
<p>Depends on what for. Business? Penn (Wharton). The rest? Not so sure.</p>
<p>All of them except for Dartmouth are well-known internationally. Dartmouth is almost unknown internationally, mainly because it’s not really a research university.</p>
<p>Who cares which one is more internationally well-known? Are you saying that you value the opinions of random European, Asian, African, and South American people?</p>
<p>Yes, because I might live and work in Europe later on.</p>
<p>lololol on not caring about the opinion of 97% of the world. </p>
<p>According to several UK world rankings, all of the schools you have mentioned are ranked in the top 100, with Penn and Duke ranked in the top 15. You’d be surprised - most random people in the UK (and Europe) have not heard of any of the Ivy League Schools outside of Harvard and Yale. </p>
<p>Since this is a Penn thread, I will take the chance to say that while many random people have not heard of Penn (and end up calling it Penn State, even after I’ve corrected them multiple times), those who work in recruiting and who are familiar with universities definitely respect the name. Penn Medicine, Penn Law, and Wharton are all world-class, and are heavy weights in any recruiting pool, in any part of the world. As for Undergrad, Penn is held in the same regard as the top 5 Universities in the UK (Oxbridge, St. Andrew’s, LSE, and UCL). So the layman on the street probably will not know about Penn, but the people who are hiring will.</p>
<p>I agree with redandblue15, Penn and duke are the most internationally well known schools, but not by a long shot. Dartmouth and Cornell are exceptional schools for european relations, it’s just that Penn and duke have more Asian connections</p>
<p>No one really knows about Dartmouth, particularly in Asia. I always felt Cornell was well known because for a while, when China first sent students to America, frequently sent them to Cornell. Maybe I’m wrong, though.</p>
<p>They are all well known internationally!</p>
<p>Penn is the one causes most confusion. But all well educated people know the fact that Penn and Penn State are different ones.</p>
<p>No one knows what Dartmouth is where I’m from, but the others are kinda known.</p>
<p>Which continent are you from?</p>
<p>I’m located in a lovely Latin American country.</p>
<p>The thing is, the people who don’t know the prestige of these schools, probably won’t be hiring you…so it really doesn’t matter, unless you’re concerned with impressing random strangers.</p>
<p>Yea, I guess you are right</p>
<p>Let’s put it this way: nobody hiring you is ever going to think “this Penn grad and this Cornell grad have pretty similar credentials, but let’s take the Penn grad because we see Penn as a slightly more prestigious school.”</p>
<p>In fact, after landing your first post-school job (some possible exceptions in the finance world), employers will value experience, aptitude, and networking much, much more than they would where you went to school. My boss went to Duke, and after graduating, he worked at a prestigious biotech company for ten or so years. He got that job because his current employer told the big biotech firm about his aptitude in the lab, not because the employers saw his resume and cared that he went to Duke.</p>
<p>Long story short, don’t pick one school over another just because you think it has slightly more prestige. Hell, some people might see Duke as better than Penn, others might see Penn as better than Duke. It doesn’t matter, I assure you. It doesn’t matter.</p>
<p>^ agree with the previous poster. But Duke and Penn are most internationally recognized followed closely by Cornell. Dartmouth unfortunately is not so well known outside of the States.</p>
<p>Duke is not more internationally recognized that Cornell. Duke isn’t very well known at all in Asia, which accounts for a good chunk of the world population.</p>
<p>i would have agreed with you a few years ago, however, the Kunshan campus and the friendship tours have generated tremendous excitement among Asian people and have catapulted Duke into a position of dominance.</p>