Top three universities overall in the world

[rjkofnovi]

<p>“FYI, MIT doesn’t have a medical school. So, if you’re comparing medical schools, you’d probably want to say, “in terms of medical research” the medical schools of UCSF + Stanford + Berkeley > Harvard.”</p>

<p>FYI, Berkeley also doesn’t have a medical school.</p>

[UCBChemEGrad]

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1. Harvard
2. Stanford
3. Debatable (MIT, Yale, Chicago, possibly Cal)

It’s not “possibly Cal”, it’s definitely Cal. :)</p>

<p>Cal offers more breadth and depth than MIT, Yale and Chicago.</p>

[coolweather]

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“in terms of medical research” the medical schools of UCSF + Stanford + Berkeley > Harvard.

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<p>Don’t forget [Harvard-MIT</a> Health Sciences and Technology](<a href=“http://hst.mit.edu/index.jsp]Harvard-MIT”>http://hst.mit.edu/index.jsp)</p>

<p><a href=“http://www.hms.harvard.edu/md_phd[/url]”>http://www.hms.harvard.edu/md_phd&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

[warblersrule]

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@Tyler09

Are people overestimating the prestige of Cambridge/Oxford?

I think people are actually underestimating them. They have very few weaknesses.</p>

[Ghostt]

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Are people overestimating the prestige of Cambridge/Oxford? I know people like to be more globally centered by including them, but is there any evidence to suggest they are definitely among the top 3?

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<p>As someone who has visited Oxford and talked to professors/students there, I have to tell you it is a truly amazing place. I’m not talking about the atmosphere; I was actually intimidated by the sheer competence and erudition of every faculty member I spoke to. The general vibe is one of intense immersion in academia, nothing like the cheerful, almost commercial appeal of schools like Yale and Stanford. And undergrads are never coddled with easy classes and grade inflation, nor are they systematically neglected by professors.</p>

<p>It’s certainly not just a pretty campus with a long history. There is no better place to study classics, literature or philosophy, for example. Oxford’s Philosophy, Politics and Economics (PPE) course is arguably the most prestigious major in the world.</p>

[rjkofnovi]

<p>"It’s not “possibly Cal”, it’s definitely Cal. </p>

<p>Cal offers more breadth and depth than MIT, Yale and Chicago."</p>

<p>UCB is correct.</p>

[ewho]

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As someone who has visited Oxford and talked to professors/students there. I have to tell you it is a truly amazing place. I’m not talking about the atmosphere; I was actually intimidated by the sheer competence and erudition of every faculty member I spoke to.

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<p>I wish that you studied there. The feeling could be more real.</p>

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The general vibe is one of intense immersion in academia, nothing like the cheerful, almost commercial appeal of schools like Yale and Stanford.

This could be that Yale and Stanford are always on people’s minds.</p>

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And undergrads are never coddled with easy classes and grade inflation, nor are they systematically neglected by professors.</p>

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? I thought that you just visited there. Try Princeton if you have not suffered enough.</p>

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It’s certainly not just a pretty campus with a long history. There is no better place to study classics, literature or philosophy, … is arguably the most prestigious major in the world.

Try Chinese temples, you could have better education in those areas.</p>

[Ghostt]

<p>Are you really making fun of me for being the first person in the thread to actually share some personal impressions? Wow.</p>

[ewho]

<p>This thread is for fun. Don’t be too serious. Nobody really knows how to compare them. But, for graduate schools, they have no requirements for course work, which is really easier to get MS - if they have it - and Ph.D. That is why HYPSM and the top public state schools are way better for graduate studies. </p>

<p>I am not sure about their undergraduate education, except my adviser from school had BS in math from Cambridge, and he did almost nothing to get MS from the same school.</p>

[kryptonsa36]

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@confusedboy

Yeah, rite. You should be happy if more than 30% of the people in Asia know what Yale and MIT are.

Someone is living up to his moniker.</p>

<p>MIT is extraordinarily well known in China, Taiwan, Singapore, India, etc. (The reason for this should be fairly obvious.) More so than Oxbridge are known in those countries.</p>

[GoBlue81]

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MIT is extraordinarily well known in China, Taiwan, Singapore, India, etc. (The reason for this should be fairly obvious.) More so than Oxbridge are known in those countries.

Are you serious?</p>

[JohnAdams12]

<p>Ghostt - are you sure that you are not describing Princeton here?..especially the last sentence.</p>

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I was actually intimidated by the sheer competence and erudition of every faculty member I spoke to. The general vibe is one of intense immersion in academia, nothing like the cheerful, almost commercial appeal of schools like Yale and Stanford. And undergrads are never coddled with easy classes and grade inflation, nor are they systematically neglected by professors.

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[Circular]

<ol>
<li>Hogwarts</li>
<li>Harvard</li>
<li>Oxford</li>
</ol>

<p>In terms of prestige.</p>