<p>Just wondering, which of these universities are most well known (for general undergraduate worldwide), has most prestige,reputation and has more of the "wow" factor?</p>
<p>Columbia,Dartmouth,UPenn,Imperial,UCL,Brown and Cornell?</p>
<p>Rank them like:
Columbia>Dartmouth</p>
<p>or </p>
<p>Columbia
Dartmouth</p>
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<p>There is much more to choosing colleges than prestiege. And by the way the admissions commitees are not going to be impressed when you say that you want to go there because of it’s prestiege.</p>
<p>These schools are roughly equivalent.</p>
<p>I wouldn’t pick one or the other just because one is a bit higher ranked on the US News rankings system. Pick the one that you feel most comfortable with.</p>
<p>For example, while Columbia is a bit higher ranked than Dartmouth or Cornell, if you would rather go to a traditional college campus, then pick Dartmouth or Cornell over Columbia.</p>
<p>And if you want to go to school in London, then do so, but don’t go just because that school is ranked higher than the American school you get into.</p>
<p>i was wondering about this too, i’m stuck between imperial and columbia. I’m planning to study Physics btw. Also which has a better international reputation (specifically in east asia)?</p>
<p>My personal opinion:</p>
<p>Columbia, UPenn, Dartmouth, Brown, Cornell, UCL, Imperial.</p>
<p>No way, Imperial in the UK is considered 1 below Oxbridge in sciences and in some engineering courses and computing is even better than oxbridge! Take a look at uk complete uni guide if you don’t believe me. </p>
<p>@ruvermillion Columbia=Imperial>Brown>Cornell=Dartmouth in east asia. I’m a foreign student from HK and the only famous ivies bar HYP are brown and Columbia</p>
<p>Worldwide? </p>
<p>That’s hard to say. However, in the UK, with the exception of Harvard, the Ivies aren’t that widely known (so it’s hard to say if they’re prestigious), and London unis (Imperial, LSE, UCL, King’s, etc) are highly respected. </p>
<p>In most parts of Europe, Princeton, Yale, Cornell and Columbia are somewhat known. All the Ivy schools are prestigious to those who have heard of them, or those who care. Wharton is very prestigious for those who are in the banking and finance world.</p>
<p>In the Middle East, Imperial, UCL, Cornell and Columbia are somewhat known.</p>
<p>In Southeast Asia, Columbia and Cornell are somewhat known. </p>
<p>Harvard is miles more prestigious than the rest of the Ivies worldwide.</p>
<p>The ranking of the most prestigious schools worldwide would, perhaps, look like this:</p>
<ol>
<li>Harvard</li>
<li>Oxford</li>
<li>Cambridge, Stanford, MIT</li>
<li>Yale, Berkeley</li>
<li>Princeton</li>
<li>Caltech</li>
</ol>
<h2>-</h2>
<ol>
<li>Columbia, Cornell, Northwestern, Chicago</li>
<li>Michigan, Penn, Duke, NYU</li>
<li>CMU, JHU, UCLA, Virginia, etc.</li>
</ol>
<p>@RML, I agree with your ranking mostly except for Caltech.
However, I still don’t know where should I place it.</p>
<p>Well, to be honest, I’ve never heard of Imperial, so I just put it in the bottom… I should’ve specified that.</p>
<p>RML, I think your ranking overrates Northwestern a little bit.</p>
<p>I would say in India (where I’m from)…</p>
<ol>
<li>Oxford</li>
<li>Harvard</li>
<li>MIT</li>
<li>Cambridge</li>
<li>Stanford</li>
<li>Yale</li>
<li>Penn (very, very popular in India due to the Wharton School)</li>
<li>Princeton</li>
<li>Cornell (very well known for Engineering)</li>
<li>Columbia</li>
<li>Johns Hopkins University (Medical School)</li>
<li>UC Berkeley</li>
<li>Duke</li>
<li>University of Chicago</li>
<li>UCLA</li>
<li>Northwestern</li>
<li>Carnegie Mellon</li>
<li>NYU (New York City location)</li>
<li>University of Michigan</li>
<li>University of Illinois</li>
</ol>
<p>Schools like Brown, Dartmouth, Caltech, Wash U, Vanderbilt, Emory and Rice are just not known period…</p>
<p>Columbia
UPenn
Dartmouth
Brown
Cornell
Imperial/UCL (don’t know enough about any of the London schools to know how they rank in relation to each other, but i know that ICL and UCL are both top schools.)</p>
<p>According to this: </p>
<p>[Education</a> - Image - NYTimes.com](<a href=“Education - Image - NYTimes.com”>Education - Image - NYTimes.com)</p>
<p>UCL and ICL are pretty high on the list (they sandwich Duke respectively and are only a few spots below UCLA)</p>
<p>they’re good schools, and am sure they have a lot of “wow” factor worldwide.</p>
<p>Here’s the list among academics, when asked to evaluate the quality of research and teaching in a variety of fields, according to Times Higher Education.</p>
<p>[Top</a> Universities by Reputation 2010-2011](<a href=“http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/world-university-rankings/2010-2011/reputation-rankings.html]Top”>http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/world-university-rankings/2010-2011/reputation-rankings.html)</p>
<p>There are some anomalies (I think some people confused UMass for MIT), but I think there are similar anomalies with the NYT list among business people as well. Both lists are biased by their graduate schools – the NYT lists favors universities with business schools, and the THE list favors research powerhouses. </p>
<p>1 Harvard University
2 Massachusetts Institute of Technology
3 University of Cambridge
4 University of California Berkeley<br>
5 Stanford University
6 University of Oxford
…</p>
<p>7 Princeton University
8 University of Tokyo
9 Yale University<br>
10 California Institute of Technology<br>
**11 Imperial College London **
12 University of California Los Angeles<br>
13 University of Michigan
14 Johns Hopkins University
15 University of Chicago<br>
**16 Cornell University **
17 University of Toronto
18 Kyoto University
**19 University College London **
19 University of Massachusetts<br>
21 University of Illinois - Urbana<br>
**22 University of Pennsylvania **
**23 Columbia University **
24 Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich<br>
25 University of Wisconsin </p>
<p>Brown and Dartmouth aren’t in the top 100.</p>
<p>hmm, i admit in America i doubt anyone will really know how good Imperial or UCL is. I would say generally worldwide however, they will roughly have the same reputation tbh. Go to whichever you would prefer because i doubt anyone of those will set you back at all</p>
<p>East Asia: Columbia=Imperial>Brown> Dartmouth>UPenn=Cornell=UCL
Europe (western): Imperial>UCL=Columbia=Brown=UPenn>Cornell=Dartmouth
North America: Ivies>Imperial=UCL (nobody will have heard of the London unis)
IB placement (UK): Imperial=UCL>other ivies
IB placement (US): Other ivies>Imperial=UCL (no chance of getting into US IB with UK uni)</p>
<p>Overall reputation: Imperial=Columbia>Brown>UCL>Cornell=UPenn=Dartmouth</p>
<p>Quote me of you disagree</p>
<p>“There are some anomalies (I think some people confused UMass for MIT), but I think there are similar anomalies with the NYT list among business people as well.”</p>
<p>Absolutely agree with the above statement!!</p>
<p>for physics undergrad, which is better: Columbia or Imperial? I like both London and NYC and am financially capable of going to both cities. Which do you think i should choose?</p>
<p>Have you been accepted to both?</p>
<p>@NYU2013 Imperial has given me an offer. I have been accepted to Columbia</p>
<p>To my knowledge, Columbia does Early Decision, not Early Action. Early Decision is binding, whereas Early Action is not.</p>
<p>If you were admitted under Early Decision, you should be going to Columbia. As, when you signed the Early Decision agreement, you said that if were accepted, you would attend. You’ve been accepted, therefore, you should attend.</p>
<p>can anymore people please give me their opinion?</p>