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

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Lots of American schools now hold recruiting sessions in Europe, Asia and elsewhere overseas. The attraction of foreign students is that most will pay full freight. Generally, US schools save their aid for US kids, except for a few very exceptional foreign students.

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

Do you mean Georgetown? I'd always heard gtown was popular in Spain but not GW.

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No I meant GW, more recognition than Georgetown (am from Madrid originally)

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Anonymous wrote:No I meant GW, more recognition than Georgetown (am from Madrid originally)

They must have mixed it up or you have a very biased sample.

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

A few that I know of...

Canada: McGill
UK:Oxford, Cambridge, Univ of London, London School of Economics, Imperial College London, St. Andrews, Univ. of Edinburgh
Netherlands: Maastrict University and another that I cannot remember the name now....
Italy: Bocconi (Milan)

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Anonymous wrote:

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

Do you mean Georgetown? I'd always heard gtown was popular in Spain but not GW.

+1. I am from Spain too, and had never heard of GW before living in DC. While Georgetown is known, because Prince Felipe studied there, it is not as prestigious as Harvard, Stanford and the like.

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Stanford, USC and UCLA are highly regarded in Taiwan

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

This plus Dartmouth, Brown, UPenn, Duke, CalTech, Georgetown (foreign service school).

Also, Williams, Amherst, Swathmore, Bryn Mawr, Wellesley.

I'm S.Korean and most S. Koreans are well aware of U.S. College rankings more than most Americans.

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In Japan we think highly of Georgetown and George Washington University in addition the The Ivies of course.

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

OK, lets stop all this nonsense now. There are a lot of universities in the states that have a lot of foreigners. That does not mean that they would be considered prestigious. Before I moved here if someone told me they went to Georgetown that would have meant nothing to me, and I was by no means ignorant about the US.

There are only a handful of schools that your average well-educated foreigner would have heard of/consider prestigious, and they are h/y/p plus one or two others like MIT, Stanford, etc.

I have lived here more than a decade and have no idea what "SMU" is.

Might depend on where you live. My guess is that Georgetown is well-known in the Gulf states.

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U of Chicago.

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Stanford, Berkeley, MIT

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Stanford, MIT, Yale, Princeton, Williams, Brown, Georgetown,GW (International studies program)

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Anonymous wrote:

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

This plus Dartmouth, Brown, UPenn, Duke, CalTech, Georgetown (foreign service school).

Also, Williams, Amherst, Swathmore, Bryn Mawr, Wellesley.

I'm S.Korean and most S. Koreans are well aware of U.S. College rankings more than most Americans.

Most of my friends in Lat Am and Europe have never even heard of those. At the top of prestige, they'd probably say Harvard, Stanford, Berkeley, perhaps MIT. Everything else is a step below.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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

This plus Dartmouth, Brown, UPenn, Duke, CalTech, Georgetown (foreign service school).

Also, Williams, Amherst, Swathmore, Bryn Mawr, Wellesley.

I'm S.Korean and most S. Koreans are well aware of U.S. College rankings more than most Americans.

Most of my friends in Lat Am and Europe have never even heard of those. At the top of prestige, they'd probably say Harvard, Stanford, Berkeley, perhaps MIT. Everything else is a step below.

Including Yale and Princeton?