which universities are as prestigious as the ivy league?

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<p>This is most definitely a regional issue. Most people think Brown is a color, Penn is coached by Joe Paterno, and Columbia is where the Governor of South Carolina lives when he is home from “hiking the Appalachian Trail”. </p>

<p>South:</p>

<p>Georgetown
Duke
William & Mary
Vanderbilt
Davidson
Emory
Rice
Washington & Lee</p>

<p>These schools are “where the smart kids go”. The big state U’s are respected but not at the same level. Its tough to be exclusive when there are 15000-20000 of you.</p>

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<p>In the Middle East-with the Prime Minister of Lebanon, the King of Jordan, the Israeli Ambassador to the US, the US Envoy to the Middle East and the US Secretary of State all being Georgetown alumni or former faculty or spouses of alumni, Georgetown.</p>

<p>Maybe they could all get together at the Verizon Center this Spring and watch Georgetown defeat Duke. Or they could watch the Georgetown-Syracuse game with Vice President Biden. At either setting, I am sure they could get the two state solution for Palestine accomplished.</p>

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<p>looooooooooooooool.</p>

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<p>doug betsy</p>

<p>OP said “prestige in general public, not in specific fields such as law, engineering, etc…”</p>

<p>I think he meant to say prestige in general. IE VCU for example, has a great interior design major, I think, and folks in interior design will consider it prestigious, but not so much in business, science etc. I dont think he meant the whole general public, including high school dropouts. If he did mean that, its a very silly question.</p>

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<p>“spouses of alumni, Georgetown.”</p>

<p>spouses of alumni? So Georgetown gets credit for hillary, cause Bill went there undergrad? Even though SHE attended Wellesley and Yale? IE the Sec of State of the US went to a LAC, and never attended the school with the uber International Relations program? :slight_smile: </p>

<p>You dont work in PR by any chance, do ya?</p>

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<p>I’m pretty sure we’re talking about prestige as in ACADEMIC prestige here…because if it’s just “hey-i-know-it” prestige, Dartmouth and Brown would be similar in league to, say, Deep Springs…lol.</p>

<p>And then, Ohio State or Michigan would be #1.</p>

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<p>The Prime Minister of Israel has not one, but TWO degrees from MIT. So if you want to make it big in the Likud, get back to your differential equations.</p>

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<p>I had never thought of it beyond Hillary but I should run with this idea. Thanks. First Spouses from Georgetown inlcude Katerina Yuschenko (Wife to the Prime Minister of Ukraine), Jane Sanford in South Carolina, Maria Shriver in California and first man, Paul Pelosi in the Speaker’s office.</p>

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<p>^ eh. Georgetown is wonderful if you want famous people in politics, but I’m willing to bet it’s list is not quite as impressive when looking for top scientists, top doctos, top mathematicians, top writers, top historians, top archaeologists, etc.</p>

<p>Part of the reason why Georgetown is not nearly there yet for being considered on the same academic prestige levels as, say, Duke or Stanford. It does have quite a lot of celebrity-like politicians and diplomats…but outside of that realm, it’s really not very known for producing academics, which is where primary-academic prestige comes from.</p>

<p>Of course, it is a great school and in the larger scheme of things, it is definitely as prestigious as the ivies.</p>

<p>However, just felt like pointing that out :)</p>

<p>edit: academics also include faculty which have academic prestige.</p>

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<p>@ Hope2getrice:</p>

<p><em>~</em> I’m pretty sure we’re talking about prestige as in ACADEMIC prestige here…because if it’s just “hey-i-know-it” prestige, Dartmouth and Brown would be similar in league to, say, Deep Springs…lol. <em>~</em></p>

<p>You are indeed correct, in that even the majority of people here on CC have not even heard of Deep Springs. Although I am unsure what you are implying about Deep Springs’ prestige, because, in terms of prestige, it is generally considered to be about as good as it gets.</p>

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<p>I mean that Deep Springs is basically unknown.</p>

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<p>Yeah, gotcha. I was just making sure, no worries. It was unknown even to my college counselor. Lol.</p>

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<p>Here is my lists of prestigious ranking to end all mother of prestigious ranking listings. Don’t ask me for methodology. I just know it. This is all about prestige for prestige whore. </p>

<p>Here’s my list of 5 most prestigious overrated institutions:

  1. Harvard
  2. Yale
  3. Princeton
  4. MIT
  5. Stanford.</p>

<p>Here’s my list of 5 most prestigious underrated institutions.

  1. U of Chicago
  2. Dartmouth
  3. U of Penn
  4. Northwestern
  5. Columbia</p>

<p>Here’s my list of 5 most prestigious Sport orientated institutions.

  1. Duke
  2. Georgetown
  3. U of Michigan
  4. UCLA
  5. U of Notre Dame</p>

<p>Here is my list of 5 most prestigious Preppy institutions.

  1. Williams
  2. Cornell
  3. Duke
  4. Amherst
  5. Brown</p>

<p>Here’s my list of 5 most prestigious Nerdy institutions.

  1. MIT
  2. U of Chicago
  3. Caltech
  4. U C Berkeley
  5. Columbia</p>

<p>Here is my list of 5 most prestigious party institutions.

  1. Dartmouth
  2. Duke
  3. Washington U - St Louis
  4. Cornell
  5. Vanderbilt</p>

<p>Here’s my list of 5 most prestigious Public Institutions.

  1. U of C Berkeley
  2. U of Michigan
  3. UVA
  4. U of North Corolina
  5. UCLA</p>

<p>Here’s the list of 5 most prestigious Nobel prize winning institutions.

  1. Univerity of Chicago
  2. Columbia
  3. Harvard
  4. MIT
  5. Stanford</p>

<p>Here’s my list of 5 most prestigious institutions that produced the most U.S. President.

  1. Harvard
  2. College of William & Mary
  3. Princeton
  4. Yale
  5. United States Military Academy</p>

<p>Here’s my list of 5 most prestigious Business School (undergrad and graduate combined).

  1. U of Penn
  2. Harvard
  3. Stanford
  4. U of Chicago
  5. MIT</p>

<p>Here is my list of 5 most prestigious Medical School

  1. Harvard
  2. John Hopkins
  3. Washington U - St. Louis
  4. Duke
  5. U of Penn</p>

<p>Here’s my list of 5 most prestigious Law Schools

  1. Harvard
  2. Yale
  3. Stanford
  4. Columbia
  5. U of Chicago</p>

<p>Here’s my list of 5 most prestigious Engineering Schools

  1. Caltech
  2. Carnegia Mellon
  3. Cornell
  4. Purdue
  5. MIT</p>

<p>Here’s my listing of most prestigious Economics institutions.

  1. Harvard
  2. Princeton
  3. U of Chicago
  4. U C Bekerley
  5. MIT</p>
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<p>thank you captain “already posted”, but none of those lists answer the question :slight_smile:
nice try.
and a lot of the stuff you posted is subjective and not necessarily true.</p>

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<p>Georgia Tech and Michigan above Purdue in engineering. UCSF is definitely a top 5 medical school.</p>

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<p>^^ again, that person’s list is not reliable and pretty subjective. For example, he/she/it did not include stanford or berkeley in top engineering.</p>

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<p>^^^^Very true.</p>

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<p>And Columbia is not extremely underrated. Perhaps Reed or Swarthmore would fit the bill better than Columbia for the underrated list.</p>

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<p>All ranking models are very much subjective. Name me a ranking model that is scientific.</p>

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<p>well, making<em>a</em>point, you specifically said:</p>

<p>“Here is my lists of prestigious ranking to end all mother of prestigious ranking listings.”</p>

<p>so…?</p>

<p>this is not true.</p>