Which is more prestigious: BU or Tulane

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Anonymous wrote:Newt Gingrich is a Tulane alumni but we're not going to bash the school just because of that are we?

As did Andrew Breitbart. Nevermind. Run!

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BU is way more prestigious in my mind, but I’m from New England....I think “party school” for Tulane and research, biomedical engineering, and communications for BU. Oh, Elie Weisel, MLK, and hockey, too.

But “prestige” is irrelevant. Very few kids will ever be deciding between those two. ONE day on BU’s campus and you’ll know whether you love it or hate it. If you want that traditional college lawn frat house feel, you would hate BU. If you want to be in the center of a city, riding the T and living among city people, pick BU. It still has the college dorm experience and all, but you’re literally in center city. It’s HUGE. No one sane could really choose between then based on prestige”

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Anonymous wrote:BU, by far. Knew many kids at Tulane. Drunken, Southern frat hell. None of the students particularly distinguished

Oh please do tell us how you came to know “many” kids at Tulane and how you came to this conclusion about a school you’ve most likely never seen.

What? I'm from Texas. Many of my friends and classmates from my small private school went to Tulane. I went to UT and visited Tulane many times (best friend went there) to visit on weekends and some holidays. I met many of the kids there and had known a good handful from school. I even toured the campus during my tours. And yes, my original statement still stands. Going to undergrad in NOLA takes a special kind of kid. It takes party school to a different level, and I say that having done undergrad in ATX.

My friends at BU had a completely different experience.

Thanks. Your experience from 1975 is interesting, but hardly relevant now. Unlike you, I actually know several students there now - they all love it and I would not describe any of them as partiers.

Again, your assumptions are still off. I'm not that old but I do grant you that I sound distinguished - particularly by comparison. I know kids there then and now - both from undergrad and law school. Can you believe it? I've known kids from there for a long period of time. Crazy given that I lived in Houston so long which is only hours from NOLA. Why is this so hard to grasp?

My original statement still stands. I wouldn't send my kids to Tulane given the amount of time that I've spent there. I would send my kids to BU. You, however, can do you - as the young people say.

NP - I visited NOLA twice, and I would never send my kid to college there. Ever.

+100. The setting is no small matter.

I know a handful of kids who went there, and yeah, it took them ....awhile....to "unlearn" the habits they picked up on while at Tulane.

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Harvard, Princeton,Yale, Hopkins, MIT, Annapolis, West Point and Stanford are prestigious (for differing specialties)

That’s it. The rest are fighting to be king crap of turd mountain.

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I guess BU, I mean it's ranked 30 spots higher.

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Anonymous wrote:Which school is more prestigious and has better job outlook? Boston U or Tulane?

I think that students should usually pick schools based on things like net cost, student satisfaction ratings, and grad school and employment outcomes data, not prestige.

But Boston University is tied with Northeastern for being the fourth most prestigious school in Boston.

Aside from Emory and, very arguably, the University of Miami and the University of Florida, Tulane is the most prestigious school in the entire Southeastern region. Tulane is much more important to the Southeast than BU is to New England.

Tulane is also in what is really a more interesting, more cosmopolitan city.

So, in my opinion, Tulane seems as if it’s more genuinely prestigious.

For purposes of choosing an underground graduate school: Strong, streetwise students who can drink without becoming alcoholics and have a chance to go to Tulane, and who would pay about the same amount for both schools, should choose Tulane over BU for most majors, because Tulane is a fine school in an amazing, fragile place. Go to New Orleans while it exists.

Other students who would pay about the same amount should usually pick BU, because they’re less likely to be killed by a cop or a criminal at BU, and
they’re much less likely to be evacuated due to a hurricane.

UMMM..., Duke, UNC, Vandy, Emory, Gatech, Davidson, Washington& lee, even UGA are more prestigious than Tulane and all in the southeast

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Anonymous wrote:BU is way more prestigious in my mind, but I’m from New England....I think “party school” for Tulane and research, biomedical engineering, and communications for BU. Oh, Elie Weisel, MLK, and hockey, too.

But “prestige” is irrelevant. Very few kids will ever be deciding between those two. ONE day on BU’s campus and you’ll know whether you love it or hate it. If you want that traditional college lawn frat house feel, you would hate BU. If you want to be in the center of a city, riding the T and living among city people, pick BU. It still has the college dorm experience and all, but you’re literally in center city. It’s HUGE. No one sane could really choose between then based on prestige”

+1000

I'm not even from New England.
My daughter enrolled in this school last year, but she's having such a great time in college, and there are many students of high caliber. Our kids don't even like parties, so we really like that the school doesn't have a strong atmosphere of that.
And people keep saying there's no campus, but Boston itself is essentially the campus. Spending four years of college life in culturally stimulating Boston has significant advantages that can't be understood just by rankings.

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These schools are totally different. Where does your kid want to live? If they want to live in the Northeast then probably BU. If they want to live in the South then go Tulane.

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BU

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Beauty is in the eye if the beholder and all that. In my circles, Tulane is more prestigious. Old money Southern school.

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I don’t have info on BU, but DD goes to Tulane and loves it. She’s active in her sorority and academic ECs, and has other like-minded peers. She’s also had good internship placements. It’s not all about partying, but she has learned to navigate that scene while balancing academics. NGL I enjoy visiting her during Mardi Gras and Jazz Fest. She’s also travelled abroad twice and has great connections with professors in her two majors. The experience has been busy and challenging but also very positive for her.

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Anonymous wrote:Not sure but I would rather go to Tulane.

Why?

If you are asking this question, you've never been to New Orleans.

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Anonymous wrote:Which school is more prestigious and has better job outlook? Boston U or Tulane?

BU is the fifth most prestigious school in Boston.

Name the four more prestigious schools. Keep in mind that Boston and Cambridge are two different places.

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Anonymous wrote:Which school is more prestigious and has better job outlook? Boston U or Tulane?

BU is the fifth most prestigious school in Boston.

6th

How 6th? I can only find 4 schools more prestigious in Boston: Harvard, MIT, Tufts, BC. What's the additional school above BU?

Two of the schools you listed are in Cambridge. One is in Medford (conservatory in Boston, though). One is in Newton.

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Anonymous wrote:Not sure but I would rather go to Tulane.

Why?

If you are asking this question, you've never been to New Orleans.

+100 If you want your kid to go to BU, do not have them visit Tulane. It is a special mix of academics, location, weather, culture and a happy, laid back vibe that is very unique.