Top 10 U.S. Universities in Terms of International Prestige and Name-Recognition

College Search & Selection
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<p>according to new york times, it's something like this:
(not completely accurate as I'm writing this down for memory)</p>

<ol>
<li>Harvard
2 berkely
3 stanford
4 yale
4 princeton
can't remember anymore, but cornell is around 23 or 24 overall in the world. ranked BELOW mcgill. :(</li>
</ol>

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<p>Oh calm down everyone. My friend who is a senior in the bay area this year (attending one of the top ten public high schools in California), got accepted to Stanford and Berkeley.</p>

<p>She chose Berkeley.</p>

<p>Why? Well it had been her childhood dream since she was 7 to attend Berkeley, and she lives 15 minutes away from Stanford already. She's from an upperclass and affluent Asian family, and she wanted to go to Berkeley because she just like it better.</p>

<p>She was also accepted to Yale and Duke.</p>

<p>And she chose Berkeley. Anything wrong with that? Really, I know people who graduated with a Bachelor's from San Jose State and they are making 3 times as much money as people with two Masters and a Ph.D.</p>

<p>You can't judge a university, okay? For those people who worked super hard to get into Berkeley, you can't go and bash their college around. Isn't Berkeley better than a community college? There's is nothing to be ashamed of as to saving money by attending Berkeley instead of a private university.</p>

<p>Seriously, I'm only 14 years old and I am sick of people older than me discussing this kind of crap.</p>

<p>Berkeley kids aren't feeling bad for themselves. They're not bashing themselves. So don't bash them :-). I mean, my parents attended state universities and they've got a couple million dollars in the bank right now. It's not about the college you guys, it's about the student. All colleges have partiers, stoners, drinkers, cheaters, etc...</p>

<p>In fact, let's examine a high school. Saratoga High, located in one of the wealthiest zip codes in the United States, is considered quite good. Every single house in the town is over a million dollars, and the school is ranked very high. However, many students cheat over there. And many students party over there. But there's also many students who work very hard.</p>

<p>Let's examine Menlo School in Atherton. It's a 25k a year private school located in an extremely wealthy neighborhood. Once again, kids drink, do drugs, etc. But no one really knows that because they still end up getting good SAT scores.</p>

<p>I bet the same thing happens at all colleges.</p>

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<p>X, I'm with you. going through high school, I assumed the University of Houston was the best I was going to do (not that there's anything wrong with the school), so I am extremely grateful to be able to attend a top university. I actually exceeded my own expectations. I did well in college so far, I just thought my high school was going to come back and haunt me. Luckily, my work experience kind of cancelled that out.</p>

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<p>how about cornell? the former president of Taiwan went to the big red, and so as the princess of Thailand</p>

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<p>It's always fun to think how much farther Berkeley would go if it was(to present)/is/becomes a private university.</p>

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<p>Berkeley and UCLA have both considered privatization.</p>

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<p>What's stopping them?</p>

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<p>just pondering... is it easier to get into MIT if my major was business??</p>

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<p>In South Carolina... (According to Maurice Bessinger, barbecue pioneer and public racist, South Carolina is not part of the US as the Civil War is not officially over and the Confederacy is still a seperate country...)</p>

<ol>
<li>USC (the REAL USC, not that Southern Cal bull.)</li>
<li>Duke</li>
<li>Clemson</li>
<li>UNC Chapel Hill</li>
<li>SC State</li>
<li>Coastal Carolina </li>
<li>Midlands Tech</li>
<li>Winthrop</li>
<li>Furman</li>
<li>College of Charleston (#1 party school in the nation)</li>
</ol>

<p>If you ask us about any other colleges, chances are you'll just get a quiet stare. :P</p>

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<p>lol...AdanBrac. That was good! I knew some people from the south and they always talked heavily about Marshall, which I believe is in West Virginia.</p>

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<p>IN CHINA:
1. HARVARD
2. YALE
3. STANFORD
4. PRINCETON
5. MIT
6. CORNELL(taiwan president went there)
7. COLUMBIA
8. BROWN
9. UPENN</p>

<p>they have no idea what CalTech, UCHICAGO, Duke, Berkeley are(although they do know University of California as a whole)</p>

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<p>^that is NOT a whole representative of what china, given the fact that the region where my parents grew up knew berkeley for sure.</p>

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<p>In Korea:</p>

<ol>
<li>Harvard</li>
<li>Yale</li>
<li>Princeton/Stanford/MIT</li>
<li>Caltech</li>
<li>Berkeley</li>
<li>everything else</li>
</ol>

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<p>In Africa
Oxford
Harvard.
Canmbridge
Yale
UC San Diego
MIT
Stanford
Princeston
Cornel
UC Berkely</p>

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<p>Harvard
Harvard
Harvard
Harvard
Harvard
Harvard
Harvard
Harvard
Harvard
Harvard</p>

<p>And oh did I mention Harvard?</p>

<p>On topic, dooit is very accurate on the list from the chinese prospective.</p>

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<p>UCSD? riiiight</p>

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<p>International Prestige*</p>

<ol>
<li>Harvard / Oxford</li>
<li>Cambridge / Princeton / Yale </li>
<li>Stanford </li>
<li>MIT<br></li>
<li>Columbia / UPenn<br></li>
<li>Brown / Cornell / UC Berkeley</li>
<li>CalTech / Dartmouth </li>
<li>London School of Economics</li>
<li>University of Paris (Sorbonne) / UChicago</li>
<li>Johns Hopkins / University of Tokyo / UCLA</li>
</ol>

<ul>
<li>(note: in line with the subject of this thread this is based on the overall "perceived" prestige that i have gathered from my travels in Europe, Asia and the US - which is very different from academic "quality" or even what i believe to be prestigious / quality) </li>
</ul>

<p>For example, UCLA making the cut over Michigan / UVA - but frankly UCLA's world rep is surprisingly strong (in fact, NYU probably gets higher global props over Mich/Va) ... it may be a simple function of being "big city" schools (LA / NY) but they always seem to get a mention by non-US people when listing US schools.</p>

<p>Similarly, in Japan, Keio / Waseda are considered just as (if not more presitigious than) Tokyo / Kyoto.</p>

<p>In Europe, schools such as Heidelberg (Germany) and ETH Zurich (Swiss) get huge props but hardly get notice outside the EU.</p>

<p>Frankly, it's hard enough making a "prestige" list with US schools let alone a global one. That said, I think the schools in the first 2 slots retain global "wow" factor regardless where you go.</p>

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<p>UCSD is a very prestigious school in Biomedical Engineering internationally. We all know that</p>

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<p>McGill!!! If I could afford to go there, I'd be there in a heartbeat...</p>

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<p>My own ranking</p>

<ol>
<li>Harvard</li>
<li>Princeton</li>
<li>Stanford</li>
<li>MIT</li>
<li>UC B.</li>
<li>UCLA</li>
<li>Columbia</li>
<li>Yale</li>
<li>Johns Hopkins</li>
<li>Brown</li>
</ol>