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

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Anonymous wrote:Yale and Princeton aren't as well known abroad as Harvard is. HYP is a very American grouping.

+1. Harvard is huge in Europe, few people have heard of Yale or Princeton. And no one of H/Y/P

Nonsense. Everyone has heard of Yale and Princeton.

Funny lady, this thread starts with "If you are a foreigner..." Are you? And, if you are, can you read the minds of all other foreigners?

This European can tell OP that in his not-English-speaking country few people have heard of Yale or Princeton. Everyone has heard of Harvard and Stanford

I attended a French high school. In English class we read "This Side of Paradise." From that, everyone knew about Princeton.

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Anonymous wrote:HYP

Stanford, MIT, Berkeley

Caltech, Wharton, Columbia.

The list above is most accurate as far as which US schools are most prestigious/well-known outside of US. They really don't know and don't care about schools such as Duke, NW, Rice, Emory, Washington, ND etc.

Clever way to insert Emory or WashU. No one cares about those schools. Duke, Northwestern, ND, however, are well-known among educated crowds.

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Anonymous wrote:Harvard, Oxford, Yale, Stanford, MIT

Princeton, Cambridge, Columbia, Berkeley, maybe Caltech, maybe Wharton

Cornell, Johns Hopkins, UChicago, Northwestern, Duke, non-Wharton Penn, LSE

UCLA, NYU, USC, Georgetown, UCL

I think that’s it. Grew up between Southeast Asia, Middle East and Europe.

+1. This is the most accurate list.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Harvard, Oxford, Yale, Stanford, MIT

Princeton, Cambridge, Columbia, Berkeley, maybe Caltech, maybe Wharton

Cornell, Johns Hopkins, UChicago, Northwestern, Duke, non-Wharton Penn, LSE

UCLA, NYU, USC, Georgetown, UCL

I think that’s it. Grew up between Southeast Asia, Middle East and Europe.

+1. This is the most accurate list.

+2

+3.

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In Asia, everyone knows Ivy league is prestigious but they only know Harvard is definitely in it. Yale is a little less well known, then Princeton. Surprisingly Cornell has a good brand in Asia.

MIT, Stanford, and yes UC Berkeley are also well known and considered prestigious.

Oxbridge are considered at the same level as Harvard.

That's it.

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Berkeley, MIT, Caltech, Stanford

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Harvard and Stanford

Yale. Princeton, MIT, Wharton

Oxford/Cambridge, Columbia, Caltech, Rest of Penn

Duke, Georgetown, Hopkins, Berkeley

[Anonymous]

Harvard, Stanford, Oxford, MIT

Yale, Princeton, Columbia

Penn, Duke, Chicago, Northwestern, Johns Hopkins, Berkeley

UCLA, NYU, Georgetown

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:In Asia, everyone knows Ivy league is prestigious but they only know Harvard is definitely in it. Yale is a little less well known, then Princeton. Surprisingly Cornell has a good brand in Asia.

MIT, Stanford, and yes UC Berkeley are also well known and considered prestigious.

Oxbridge are considered at the same level as Harvard.

That's it.

+1, Cornell has an excellent international brand.

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Sorbonne

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Depends on which country you are from.. some of these schools have international campuses so are well known in those countries
NYU in UAE for eg

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Most foreigners are not familiar with Yale or Princeton or view them more prestigious than MIT, Berkeley or Stanford if they have heard of them.

Interesting. Maybe similar to the way that Durham University is highly regarded in UK but not well known in the US?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Harvard, Oxford, Yale, Stanford, MIT

Princeton, Cambridge, Columbia, Berkeley, maybe Caltech, maybe Wharton

Cornell, Johns Hopkins, UChicago, Northwestern, Duke, non-Wharton Penn, LSE

UCLA, NYU, USC, Georgetown, UCL

I think that’s it. Grew up between Southeast Asia, Middle East and Europe.

+1. This is the most accurate list.

Absolutely not. Never heard of many of the schools listed here including John Hopkins, Georgetown, Berkely, Caltech, Wharton, USC (you got to be joking), NYU...

The list is a very good and accurate one based on my experience too. The "absolutely not" poster seems pretty uninformed. I'd be wary of the advice of anyone claiming not to know JHU, Caltech or Wharton or one who has an outdated perception of USC, now one of the most sought after unis on the rise, or that Berkley, NYU or Georgetown aren't well known globally. Like everything on this board, take it all with a grain of salt.

[Anonymous]

It depends, yea a farmer is rural India may not know of Hopkins or CalTech but everyone interested in higher education or worried about prestige would know.

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Anonymous wrote:HYP

Stanford, MIT, Berkeley

Caltech, Wharton, Columbia.

The list above is most accurate as far as which US schools are most prestigious/well-known outside of US. They really don't know and don't care about schools such as Duke, NW, Rice, Emory, Washington, ND etc.

Clever way to insert Emory or WashU. No one cares about those schools. Duke, Northwestern, ND, however, are well-known among educated crowds.

Not really. And I don’t think any of these are well known (even in the United States), except for Duke for basketball. If by ND you mean Notre Dame, it’s mostly well-known in Latin American countries with big Catholic populations. No one in Asia has heard of it.