<p>Hi, I just wanted to know, how respected are UC Berkeley and UCLA in your home country? Also, would you want to study there as an international student yourself?</p>
<p>Yes. I would love to study @ Berkeley. About how respected they are in India - to be honest 99.5% of the ppl wont know/care what Berkeley or UCLA is. Most ppl know Harvard, MIT, Oxford and thts all about it.
but for the 0.5% of the ppl - who went to the US for schoolin, or have pursured higher education in well respected colleges in india - berk demands a lot of respect.</p>
<p>just to have a reference to the thread between ucla vs. berk</p>
<p>i would want to study at berkeley, but probably not UCLA. that's more to do with their locations and that for graduate studies in english, berkeley is better</p>
<p>in england the general public will only really have heard of harvard, yale and MIT</p>
<p>but if you wanted to go into academia, both would be very well recognised</p>
<p>any other thoughts?</p>
<p>In Thailand, almost all educated people in the city have heard of UCBerkeley/UCLA, I think. The two UCs are respected, though not as much as the names Harvard/Yale. I would want to study there myself if they provided financial aid for int'ls and if I couldn't get into an Ivy-caliber college.</p>
<p>Many older generation Vietnamese think Berkeley is too radical. Because so many Vietnamese live in Orange County (near LA) and subsequently send their kids to UCLA, UCLA is fairly well regarded. Most Vietnamese have heard of Harvard, but it's a bit like Timbuctoo - you never actually hear about people you know going there. The WOW school is, unsurprisingly, Stanford.</p>