If you are a foreigner, what schools apart from H/Y/P do you consider "prestigious"

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:S/O the thread regarding "prestigious colleges" and "brand name colleges."

Same 20-25 colleges which make all ranking lists every year.

Ivies, Stanford, MIT, Johns Hopkins, U Chicago, Duke, Rice, Vanderbilt, CalTech, CMU, Northwestern, NYU, UC Berkeley.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm pretty sure many of them know of Georgetown as it has a huge international contingency.

+1.
And SMU.

I’m sorry, no international knows SMU. It’s not among top 50, let alone top 20.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:S/O the thread regarding "prestigious colleges" and "brand name colleges."

Same 20-25 colleges which make all ranking lists every year.

Ivies, Stanford, MIT, Johns Hopkins, U Chicago, Duke, Rice, Vanderbilt, CalTech, CMU, Northwestern, NYU, UC Berkeley.

NYU and Berkeley do not make most top 25 lists. Replace them with Emory, WashU

[Anonymous]

Grew up overseas and only came to the US 7 yrs ago though I am back abroad now.

HYP, MIT, Stanford, Columbia, Cornell, UChicago, Johns Hopkins, Northwestern, Duke, Berkeley, UCLA, NYU, and Georgetown are the “elite” schools for me and many of the people I grew up with.

[Anonymous]

Northwestern isn’t an international name.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:U of Illinois for engineering, RISD, SCAD, Pratt Inst, Harvey mudd

This list is a joke, right?

[Anonymous]

I'm European and all the Ivys and all the science ones with Nobel winners so Cal Tech, MIT, Stanford, Michigan, Chicago, Berkeley, Hopkins. Also NYU, Parsons, RISD, VCU, UCLA, Juilliard, Berklee because of arts. I grew up with two PhD parents (econ and chemistry) who love art.

[Anonymous]

I think the following represents Asia well

Tier 1 (Most commonly known): Harvard

Tier2 (Next Level): Stanford, Berkeley, MIT

Tier 3: (Folks with some specific knowledge about US Univs) Yale, Princeton, Caltech (folks who know a bit about Egg/Science oriented folks) + Wharton (folks w knowledge about B Schools)

Tier 4: (Folks who know a bit more about US Univs: Rest of the Ivy League + JHU (esp after COVID)

Tier 5: Chicago (Economics, Physics) + Northwestern (Kellogg)

[Anonymous]

PP again. Of course, folks who really know about US Univs would know about all/most of the research Universities mentioned in this thread.

Unfortunately, very very few outside the US know about the top SLACs (Williams etc).

Signed

SLAC grad

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Northwestern isn’t an international name.

I am a non-American citizen who grew up overseas and I can assure you that it is an international name, at least among the crowds you would hope for it to be. Definitely a coveted name among folks who knew anything about US universities and wanted to send their kids there, international school alums, et cetera.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm pretty sure many of them know of Georgetown as it has a huge international contingency.

+1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:S/O the thread regarding "prestigious colleges" and "brand name colleges."

Same 20-25 colleges which make all ranking lists every year.

Ivies, Stanford, MIT, Johns Hopkins, U Chicago, Duke, Rice, Vanderbilt, CalTech, CMU, Northwestern, NYU, UC Berkeley.

NYU and Berkeley do not make most top 25 lists. Replace them with Emory, WashU

You don’t know what you’re talking about. No one cares about Emory or WashU in the US, what makes you think non-Americans would care about those schools?

[Anonymous]

I'm the European and for us, UCLA will always be special because of Beverly Hills, 90210. For my generation, America was BH 90210, Twin Peaks, and Cindy Crawford.

[Anonymous]

The California schools are well known to the Chinese because the state is big in the popular imagination of the Chinese due to having so many Chinese immigrants who have settled there. And many have chosen to settle there (and Vancouver) because of its stateside proximity to East Asia.
I would say the CA school awareness with this segment of foreigners is hugely influenced by this cultural association.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think the following represents Asia well

Tier 1 (Most commonly known): Harvard

Tier2 (Next Level): Stanford, Berkeley, MIT

Tier 3: (Folks with some specific knowledge about US Univs) Yale, Princeton, Caltech (folks who know a bit about Egg/Science oriented folks) + Wharton (folks w knowledge about B Schools)

Tier 4: (Folks who know a bit more about US Univs: Rest of the Ivy League + JHU (esp after COVID)

Tier 5: Chicago (Economics, Physics) + Northwestern (Kellogg)

I’d say this is accurate. I’d add Oxford to tier 1 (I know, not American, but they are seen as the co-#1 spot with Harvard). And maybe combine tier 4 and 5.