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

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Smu?

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Anonymous wrote:Columbia, Cornell, Johns Hopkins, Chicago, Stanford, MIT

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Caltech, Penn

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Anonymous wrote:And then someone Posts "a lot of internationals are aware of Amherst" and somebody else says "no. There aren't." Yet, I know Amherst recruits in s. and c am. I post that information.

Move on... Yes international people know what Amherst is. If you don't believe it I don't care. But it is relevant to the conversation.

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Anonymous wrote:MIT, Stanford, maybe one or two others. Berkeley?
Few people outside the US have heard of any of these small liberal arts places like Williams.

There sure are a lot of internationals who are aware of Amherst. It offers generous aid to internationals.

No, there aren't. I bet less than one in a thousand people even in the UK would have heard of Amherst.

I have 5 friends from S. Am. That went to Amherst. (Honduras, Columbia, Peru)

Well done. That is great for you, but irrelevant for this discussion.

Well they are foreigners and they went to a prestigious college. How is it irrelevant? They abviously "heard" of Amherst.

Because the question was about what schools foreigners consider prestigious, not what colleges have foreigners attending. There are foreigners in every college and university, even north dakota.

Imagine a thought experiment:

Suppose I know some foreigners in North Dakota University

I am on a website and someone asks "What schools do foreigners consider prestigious?"

Do I then start yabbering on about all the foreigns I know at North Dakota University?

No, I don't. Because it is not relevant.

Hope this helps!

Being aware doesnt equal prestigious. Not by a long stretch.

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I am a foreigner and I found US News list to correspond pretty well with my own perceptions.

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Anonymous wrote:Conversely what foreign universities do Americans consider prestigious...or even have heard of?

When I did int'l hiring, we were told that U of London/LSE, Oxford, Cambridge, Edinburgh, St Andrews, Hague, Leiden, Sorbonne, Bologna, Jagellonian, McGill, Toronto, Dalhousie, UC Dublin and TC Dublin, Ljubljana, Cape Town, Witwatersrand, Moscow GU, and someplace I don't recall were the top 20 that were presumptively as good as a high-end US university, if not better.

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Conversely what foreign universities do Americans consider prestigious...or even have heard of?

Ones I am familiar with being rather prestigious

Canada: McGill, Toronto
UK: Oxford, Cambridge, University of London, University of Edinburgh, St. Andrews
Ireland: Trinity College Dublin
Switzerland: ETH-Zurich
Germany: University of Munich
China: Peking University
South Korea: University of Seoul
France: the Sorbonne

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Anonymous wrote:Conversely what foreign universities do Americans consider prestigious...or even have heard of?

When I did int'l hiring, we were told that U of London/LSE, Oxford, Cambridge, Edinburgh, St Andrews, Hague, Leiden, Sorbonne, Bologna, Jagellonian, McGill, Toronto, Dalhousie, UC Dublin and TC Dublin, Ljubljana, Cape Town, Witwatersrand, Moscow GU, and someplace I don't recall were the top 20 that were presumptively as good as a high-end US university, if not better.

I am surprised about LSE. We call it Let's See Europe and think it is mostly a boondoggle.

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Conversely what foreign universities do Americans consider prestigious...or even have heard of?

Ones I am familiar with being rather prestigious

Canada: McGill, Toronto
UK: Oxford, Cambridge, University of London, University of Edinburgh, St. Andrews
Ireland: Trinity College Dublin
Switzerland: ETH-Zurich
Germany: University of Munich
China: Peking University
South Korea: University of Seoul
France: the Sorbonne

I think you mean Seoul National University.

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I think you mean Seoul National University.

Yeah, you're right, that is what I meant.

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

+1.
And SMU.

What is SMU? Southern Methodist University? I'm being serious.

Yes, generous aid to foreigners.

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http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-colleges/rankings/national-universities/most-international

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http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-colleges/rankings/national-universities/most-international

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http://www.wesstudentadvisor.org/2013/08/popular-universities-international-students.html

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Anonymous wrote:Conversely what foreign universities do Americans consider prestigious...or even have heard of?

When I did int'l hiring, we were told that U of London/LSE, Oxford, Cambridge, Edinburgh, St Andrews, Hague, Leiden, Sorbonne, Bologna, Jagellonian, McGill, Toronto, Dalhousie, UC Dublin and TC Dublin, Ljubljana, Cape Town, Witwatersrand, Moscow GU, and someplace I don't recall were the top 20 that were presumptively as good as a high-end US university, if not better.

Good list!

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I am from Spain. For some reason in Spain, GW is considered to be almost as prestigious as Ivy leagues. It is interesting.