<p>Could someone tell me about the amount of "prestige" that Indiana has?</p>
<p>How does one quantify prestige?</p>
<p>^ You can’t haha. I’m looking for opinions here. :)</p>
<p>If you graduate from IU with 4.0 GPA it is very prestigious.</p>
<p>^ hm ok interesting</p>
<p>It’s a well thought of public university, not a UVA, Berkeley, UCLA, UM, UNC-CH, etc, but it has some of the best prorgams in the country. For example, it’s undergraduate business program is one of the top 10 in the nation. </p>
<p>I grew up in Big Ten country. Both of my parents, two grandparents, my sister and I are UW grads.</p>
<p>My Big Ten prestige rankings would be:
- Northwestern
- Michigan
- UW, Illinois
- IU, PSU, Minnesota, Purdue
- Ohio State, Iowa
- Michigan State
- Nebraska</p>
<p>So to me, IU’s prestige value is pretty solid.</p>
<p>Notes:
- PSU is rising but Wisconsin and Illinois are old-school prestigious – Nobel prizes, great grad school rankings, etc.
- What IU is to Humanities and Business pursuits, Purdue is to STEM. Minnesota and the aforementioned PSU are pretty solid all-around.</p>
<p>These are undergrad rankings. In terms of grad/PhD programs, Wisconsin and Michigan are probably at least as strong as Northwestern overall. Many top-10 grad programs at UW and Michigan.</p>
<p>IU has some nationally renowned programs. Jacobs (Music) and Kelley (Business) come to mind. Jacobs has been ranked #1 in the country tied with Juilliard and Eastman School of Music by U.S. News & World Report. Kelley is generally around the number 10 for undergraduate business.</p>
<ol>
<li>IU, PSU, Minnesota, Purdue</li>
<li>Ohio State, Iowa</li>
<li>Michigan State</li>
<li>Nebraska</li>
</ol>
<p>Let me fix this for you for the current members of the B1G:</p>
<ol>
<li> PSU, Ohio State, </li>
<li> Purdue, Minnesota</li>
<li> Indiana, Iowa, Michigan State</li>
<li> Nebraska </li>
</ol>
<p>I listed all 12 members in my original post. And IU is more prestigious than OSU academically, despite US News rankings…</p>
<p>With Maryland and Rutgers now joining, do you want to revise?</p>
<p>IU - Bloomington is probably best known for its basketball tradition, horrible football, a great business program and a beautiful campus. </p>
<p>Seems like the consensus is:</p>
<p>!. Northwestern
2. Michigan
3 (tie). Illinois, Wisconsin
5. A bunch of other schools
12. Nebraska.</p>
<p>I think the honest answer is, it really depends on the individual program at each school. For example, Ohio State beats everybody at welding engineering, it may even be the best program in the world. If you don’t want to be a welding engineer, that’s kind of a pointless ranking. Same with Indiana and dance.</p>
<p>Prestige is such a slippery word. Prestige to whom? Intellectuals and academics? Employers? High school students? Sports lovers? Catholics? East Coast residents? West Coast residents? Midwest residents? Southerners? Europeans? Asians? Africans? Middle Easterners? Engineers? Lawyers? Doctors? Entrepreneurs/industrialists? Artists? Musicians? et…etc…etc…Each of those groups is going to have a very different list of colleges and universities that they will consider “prestigious”. </p>
<p>Generally speaking, among Big 10 institutions, Indiana is considered a middle-of-the-road school. Since most Big 10 universities are very good, middle-of-the-road is saying something.</p>
<p>^ Yeah I guess to academics.</p>
<p>Mid-pack of the BIG. Better in liberal arts than sciences/engineering as Purdue has them. Psychology, sociology, journalism, languages, all very good. Very little bad.</p>
<p>Kelley School of Business at IU is high prestige. Only Northwestern and Michigan are better within the BIG10. And that only applies to the MBA program. For undergrad, IU-Kelley is tops in the BIG10, and number 8 nationwide, according to BusinessWeek.</p>
<p>“barrons” is correct. Science and engineering are at Purdue in that state, so that hurts IU in those fields. IU literally has no engineering, although computer science is available.</p>
<p>“For undergrad, IU-Kelley is tops in the BIG10, and number 8 nationwide, according to BusinessWeek.”</p>
<p>Ross is tops in the B1G for an undergrad BBA, period. Next…</p>
<p>ok, to change things up a bit, how is Indiana’s prestige for graduate school?</p>
<p>Too generic a question - you need to specify a major and then look it up. Grad schools are widely rated.</p>