<p>We love America. We love Obama. And we love your colleges because during the next four years they are going to make us what we will be in life. And we respect the people of America for giving us the opportunity to do what we love to do. Thank you so much. No sarcasm here, really. Just honest, heart-felt words. </p>
<p>And we don’t consider one college greater than the other. I, and a the sensible others whose opinions really count, don’t. We believe that every college has a good and a bad. IITs are good at what they, producing focused engineers who know their work. MIT, Caltech, Stanford is good at what they do, doing research and promoting new ideas.So on and so forth. Every college is good. Every single one of them. And every college is bad in something. I, for one, would never go to Harvard to study engineering. And I would not really go to MIT to study art history or something, even if it were taught there. </p>
<p>Skywalker, thank you for shutting up. I really think Tyfts made a big-time mistake taking you in, and they will understand that the moment you set foot on campus. You know, you are the scum of our country, the effin ■■■■■■■ who run away to foreign countries. If there’s something you need to learn, that’s gratitude. This country, with it’s holes, bad newspapers, corruption, pollution, over-population made you able to to stand up on your feet and apply to Tufts. Imagine for one second what the guys of your age who work in fast-food centers you eat your chow from feel. They can’t have the Tufts mattress, nor see the Boston sky-line. So, please, shut up. And Tuna is right, your mom should have slapped you and opened your eyes long back. Too bad. </p>
<p>To all the people who are chattering about IIT vs US, please don’t. Every college is good and every college is bad. Just go to your college and make the most of it. Stop complaining. Do something in life. Getting into Harvard doesn’t make you a somebody. But creating Apple from Reed (yes, that’s 20 something in USNews) makes you a somebody. It does. </p>
<p>I find the country vs. country debate very childish. Look at the planet from the space, there are no lines you are trying so hard to imagine. “We, <a href=“n”>insertcountry’snamehere</a>s, are so good in this and that, I mean dannnnnnnng.” I wonder what needs to happen for people to start classifying nationalism as another form of tribalism alongside racism, sexism etc. and try to refrain from using it.</p>
<p>i am not surprised that this thread turned into a fighting place. i think the IITs are good enough to be given the spot they’re at. the employer reviews for IIT students are very good. so that boosted their rankings. any other comments? thx.</p>
<p>employer review need to have a very solid questionnaire planning and large sample to be valid, i remember one year Stanford’s MBA school was ranked low because of a low employer review, it turned out that the year was when everyone at Stanford joined .com bubble and started their own company, so employers didn’t get to hire anyone they like and resulted in giving Stanford MBA low review.</p>
<p>i can tell you that most of students i know in the countries where i lived would rather go to IIT of Illinois than IIT of India…no offense to india IIT, i’m sure it is a good university in term of educational quality. But we are talking about prestige worldwide here. So helpwithresearch i think your methodology might need a little fixing and if you want valid research you have to get larger and better verified sample.</p>
<p>I think a good indication of worldwide prestige is to consider most of the ranks different institutions makes and cross reference the data they gathered.</p>
<p>You just can’t compare universities on an international basis. Most people I know would only be able to name three ivies (perhaps four since the O.C. boosted Brown’s reputation…). But in the UK, in MY experience, I would say somewhere like the Sorbonne is far more well known than Dartmouth, UPenn, etc… and as for Colgate, it’s the name of a toothpaste. It doesn’t mean that any one is better than another, it just means that different countries have different standpoints. Who even cares whether a CCer put your college 1st or 21st or even (gasp) not on the list of 30 at all.</p>
<p>Anyway, I really believe that peking or tsinghua should be on the list… they’re much more selective than most other universities and VERY prestigious in China, or 1/6th of the world’s population.</p>
<p>You gotta be kidding me? I’m a czech but still I cant understand how can you put there Charles University? Many people say that it’s not even the best uni in the Czech republic and there are definitely at least hundrede better universities and colleges in the US.</p>