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

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

HYPSM
UPenn
NYU
Georgetown
Columbia
Caltech
Brown

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From UK, Oxbridge, UCL, St. Andrew’s are better known. From US, Harvard, Berkeley, MIT

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Anonymous wrote:From UK, Oxbridge, UCL, St. Andrew’s are better known. From US, Harvard, Berkeley, MIT

St Andrews may be “known “ but it’s not considered prestigious

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Who are these St Andrews boosters on this forum? St Andrews is barely even known in the US, except among kids desperate to cosplay Harry Potter and/or have a hard-on for the royals. People outside of the US and UK are completely unfamiliar with the school.

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Anonymous wrote:The ones people will be familiar with are pretty much contiguous with the Top 10-15 schools on US News.

Except for Berkeley - Berkeley is very well known and it is viewed as an elite university (top 5 - 10) but it is ranked around 25 domestically by USNWR although their Global ranking has it at 3 or 4.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:From UK, Oxbridge, UCL, St. Andrew’s are better known. From US, Harvard, Berkeley, MIT

St Andrews may be “known “ but it’s not considered prestigious

+100. Brit here, completely agree. Hilarious that someone put it on the list.

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My family's from East Asia and aside from the Ivies, Caltech, MIT, Williams, Berkeley, NYU, Georgetown, Wellesley, Vanderbilt, Emory, Michigan, etc. are all considered prestigious. UMC/UC families in Asia know a lot more about higher ed in the US than you might think.

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Anonymous wrote:My family's from East Asia and aside from the Ivies, Caltech, MIT, Williams, Berkeley, NYU, Georgetown, Wellesley, Vanderbilt, Emory, Michigan, etc. are all considered prestigious. UMC/UC families in Asia know a lot more about higher ed in the US than you might think.

Way to sneak in Williams, NYU, Georgetown, Wellesley, Vanderbilt, Emory in there. These schools are not well known in East Asia and no-one cares about them.

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Anonymous wrote:My family's from East Asia and aside from the Ivies, Caltech, MIT, Williams, Berkeley, NYU, Georgetown, Wellesley, Vanderbilt, Emory, Michigan, etc. are all considered prestigious. UMC/UC families in Asia know a lot more about higher ed in the US than you might think.

Way to sneak in Williams, NYU, Georgetown, Wellesley, Vanderbilt, Emory in there. These schools are not well known in East Asia and no-one cares about them.

You have mental illness, whoever you are.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My family's from East Asia and aside from the Ivies, Caltech, MIT, Williams, Berkeley, NYU, Georgetown, Wellesley, Vanderbilt, Emory, Michigan, etc. are all considered prestigious. UMC/UC families in Asia know a lot more about higher ed in the US than you might think.

Way to sneak in Williams, NYU, Georgetown, Wellesley, Vanderbilt, Emory in there. These schools are not well known in East Asia and no-one cares about them.

You have mental illness, whoever you are.

Which part of the posting led you to such conclusion?

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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.

+2

+3, coming from Asia, I would say it's pretty accurate. Might swap Yale and Cambridge just because Y is really not as well known as Harvard/Stanford/MIT on a global scale but at least in my country, Cambridge is far better known.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My family's from East Asia and aside from the Ivies, Caltech, MIT, Williams, Berkeley, NYU, Georgetown, Wellesley, Vanderbilt, Emory, Michigan, etc. are all considered prestigious. UMC/UC families in Asia know a lot more about higher ed in the US than you might think.

Way to sneak in Williams, NYU, Georgetown, Wellesley, Vanderbilt, Emory in there. These schools are not well known in East Asia and no-one cares about them.

I am the PP. Sad but true. They are not internationally well-known schools, maybe except NYU.

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Anonymous wrote:From a Chinese perspective, aside from HYPSM, Cornell, Columbia, the Wharton business school and Berkeley are well known.

Cambridge and Oxford are equally famous. And that's it.

+1. Wharton because all of the rich Chinese billionaires are sending their kids there. Berkeley because of STEM. Cornell and Columbia because of their longstanding China ties. I recall when Columbia U's president visited China, he met with the Prime Minister, and only H/Y's president was received by a higher-ranked official, the CCP Chairman/President himself. Stanford, Princeton, and Berkeley were all received by Vice Premiers or cabinet-level officials. They are great schools, but just not as well-connected as some of the others are.

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Anonymous wrote:Stanford, USC and UCLA are highly regarded in Taiwan

Stanford, yes.

USC - ha! No.

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Anonymous wrote:Stanford, USC and UCLA are highly regarded in Taiwan

Stanford, yes.

USC - ha! No.

Isn't USC an acronym for "University of So many [Rich] Chinese"? I always thought it's a backup school for rich kids from Asia.