<p>we're talking about prestige in general public, not in specific fields such as law, engineering, etc..</p>
<p>ummm.. besides stanford, MIT, and caltech?</p>
<p>most people probably never even heard of dartmouth or brown, so it depends on which ones you’re talking about.</p>
<p>Duke and Georgetown, maybe.</p>
<p>Duke, Georgetown, UChicago (not quite general public but it’s an all-around excellent university), Johns Hopkins, UVA, Berkeley</p>
<p>Also NYU is up there, whether or not it should be is another question</p>
<p>What about UCLA? It’s pretty well known internationally.</p>
<p>That said, there are probably a lot of threads asking the same question. :)</p>
<p>generally:</p>
<p>Duke, Uchicago (though not as commonly associated with being good to the general public), Johns Hopkins, Northwestern, Georgetown, and NYU.</p>
<p>The following are only really regional:</p>
<p>Carnegie Mellon, Rice, Emory, WashU, Notre Dame, Vanderbilt</p>
<p>also, great publics:</p>
<p>Berkeley, Mich, UVA, UNC, UCLA</p>
<p>I’d say the vast majority of Americans make very little distinction between Division I football and Ivy League academics. To them, for example, U of Florida and Harvard are both household names. Therefore, they’re equally prestigious. </p>
<p>Sorry if that’s not a popular observation on CC.</p>
<p>Yeah awareness isn’t “prestige.” I would sat Stanford, MIT, Duke, Amherst, and Williams. I don’t see NYU at all. I think NYUs prestige is only international, in the US no one puts it at that high a level.</p>
<p>I wouldn’t say NYU…</p>
<p>In academic circles:</p>
<p>California Institute of Technology
Duke University
Johns Hopkins University
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Northwestern University
Stanford University
University of California-Berkeley
University of Chicago
University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
University of Virginia</p>
<p>Honorable mention
Georgetown University
New York University
Rice University
University of California-Los Angeles
University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign
University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
University of Notre Dame
University of Southern California
University of Texas-Austin
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Vanderbilt University
Washington University-St Louis</p>
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<p>Agreed. (10char?)</p>
<p>In diplomatic, political, intelligence and basketball afficianado circles-Georgetown.
Also, with four current alumni Heads of State in Asia, the Middle East and Europe, internationally-Georgetown.</p>
<p>" I’d say the vast majority of Americans make very little distinction between Division I football and Ivy League academics. To them, for example, U of Florida and Harvard are both household names. Therefore, they’re equally prestigious"</p>
<p>yeah but few if any of those folks are hiring managers (at least for college grads) or folks my kid will spend lots of time with socially, so who really cares?</p>
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<p>“The List”; I might move UVA down though</p>
<p>Extraterrestially, with the guy who runs the international space station being an alumnus-Georgetown.</p>
<p>LOL! Pretty funn toast eater!</p>
<p>My Summary:</p>
<p>In academic circles:</p>
<p>California Institute of Technology
Duke University
Georgetown (the place is pretty academic as well)
Johns Hopkins University
Massachusetts Institute of Technology(GU alum runs the place so partially “colonized” by Georgetown)
Northwestern University
Stanford University
University of California-Berkeley
University of Chicago
University of Michigan-Ann Arbor</p>
<p>In Diplomatic, Political, Basketball, and Extraterrestial Circles and Internationally:
Georgetown</p>
<p>bahahahahaha @ toast eater, don’t even THINK about comparing Georgetown’s current basketball program to Duke’s. I love Georgetown; it’s a great school, but have fun wallowing in basketball mediocrity, while Duke gets one of the top 5 recruiting classes for the next 4 straight years lmao. You can come watch us in the Final Four, if you want, I suppose.</p>
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<p>Well, the OP asked about prestige among the GENERAL PUBLIC. He didn’t ask about people with whom your kid will socialize. Nor did he ask about hiring managers. </p>
<p>So, I stand by my post as an answer to the OP. For the GENERAL PUBLIC, awareness = prestige.</p>