<p>Columbia </p>
<p>Duke </p>
<p>Dartmouth </p>
<p>UPenn </p>
<p>Please rank these in the order you think is the most prestigious and internationally recognized? I recieved acceptence letter from all of them. Thanks.</p>
<p>Colombia
Penn
Dartmouth
Duke</p>
<p>btw i hope you scored well on your TOEFL :b…jk</p>
<p>You got accepted into all these schools and are yet asking such a stupid question? It depends on what you want to major in.</p>
<p>Your question doesn’t make sense either. If you have received an acceptance letter, that means you’re a Fall 2008 student. If you’re a fall 2008 student, you should have committed to one of these schools by now anyway. Your question is about a month late.</p>
<p>EDIT: Turns out you’re a graduate student.</p>
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<p>According to just a pure ranking (US News), UPenn is the highest ranked.</p>
<p>[USNews.com:</a> America’s Best Colleges 2008: National Universities: Top Schools](<a href=“http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/usnews/edu/college/rankings/brief/t1natudoc_brief.php]USNews.com:”>http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/usnews/edu/college/rankings/brief/t1natudoc_brief.php)</p>
<p>And you might want to take a look at some only-grad-school rankings as well as the schools that are good on your major.</p>
<p>screw the ranking, Columbia is the best school among them</p>
<p>1) Depends what you are looking to do and 2) they are so different atmosphere-wise, and so similar prestige-wise that choosing between them based on prestige would be a mistake.</p>
<p>Columbia, while internationally prestigious, is not universally more prestigious. Dartmouth, for example, does better with top finance recruiting.</p>
<p>what’s your major? which location you like the most?
dont just look from their ranks.</p>
<p>i would say upenn, columbia, duke, dartmouth</p>
<p>but you really shouldn’t focus on prestige / reputation because they are all GREAT schools…focus on what you’re studying / where you want to live / etc etc</p>
<p>If you are a graduate student, the overall ranking of the university doesn’t matter. You need to be concerned about the reputation of the department and of the individual faculty members. In management programs, the placement opportunities for internships and work after graduation are of critical importance. You need the answers to those kinds of questions in order to make your decision.</p>
<p>I have no need to be concerned about the program. Even though I was accepted into all of these schools, the programs are all unranked or ranked pretty low. I am just going on the schools name recognition. </p>
<p>I am leaning more towards Dartmouth and Columbia. I cannot decide between these two. </p>
<p>Dartmouth has that old Ivy, LAC feel to it. It seems like it would have a tight knit extensive alumni network. Columbia, on the other hand seems bigger and more dog eat dog, I would have to do all of my own networking, but its in NYC so thats a big plus. </p>
<p>Yet, since I want to travel and possibly work abroad, Columbia seems to be better recognized than Dartmouth. This is tough.</p>
<p>Dartmouth is my best choice</p>
<p>Dartmouth for me too , nice thight social atmosphere + i think the character Marideth (sp.?) from Grey’s Anatomy went there .lol. :)</p>
<p>Dartmouth for me too , nice thight social atmosphere + i think the character Marideth (sp.?) from Grey’s Anatomy went there .lol. :)</p>
<p>If you think Columbia is dog-eat-dog, you really shouldn’t go there. You got accepted into the top schools in the country and you’re worried about competition? Perhaps you shouldn’t go to any of them.</p>
<p>It’s just I’ve heard that Columbia’s career services isn’t as helpful to grads as it is to undergrads and graduates of the B-school, Law and Medicine. Is this true or totally unfounded? </p>
<p>Dartmouth would offer a much more close knit enviroment since the grad school is much much smaller. I feel that if I took the risk and went to Columbia that the payoff would be much bigger. Yet, I hear Dartmouth’s career services is more extensive and better than Columbia’s. Again, is this all true or unfounded?</p>
<p>Again what will you be studying?</p>
<p>“oh noes!!11.. i must go to the most prestigious and well known school to impress daddy”</p>
<p>^^When it comes to grad schools, prestige starts to matter. </p>
<p>And what’s with your sarcastic comments all around?</p>
<p>I will be getting an MA in East Asian Studies. I am going to be centering the degree towards political economy of Asia and writing a thesis on Emerging Markets in Asia. </p>
<p>I was also thinking about pursuing an MA in Modern European Studies and structuring it the same way as the East Asia one. </p>
<p>Which would better serve me in this economy?</p>
<p>TS84, since you are pursuing a graduate degree it seems to me you are going about this the wrong way. At this level of education, the program and department are of primary concern, the overall school situation is secondary, even if these are not “top tier” departments in your area of study. The “prestige” or “name recognition” factor of the school as a whole, a kind of vanity even for undergraduates, is especially trivial for graduate studies. It is more important to get the training you want from people who are recognized as capable of providing it.</p>
<p>Toward that end I would be in contact with the departments you have been admitted to and soliciting their responses as to how they would provide the education you are seeking. I would be looking at faculty profiles: where they received their education, what research have they done and what they are doing now, and with which graduate students they are working. I would try to determine which faculty members I would most likely be working most closely with and scrutinize their profiles in particular. If available I would seek out opinions from knowledgeable sources of both the departments as a whole and individual faculty members in particular. You might also try making contact with current graduate students in these schools to obtain their opinion of their experiences thus far.</p>
<p>If you want to use CC, I would post inquiries in the forums of the particular schools in question rather than in a general forum like this one.</p>