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

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:U of Chicago.

Maybe these days. Twenty years ago when I was living in Canada for a summer, the Canadian professionals I was hanging out with complained that Americans did not know of Canada's good universities (McGill, but also Toronto and Queens). At the time, I was a graduate student at Chicago but none of them viewed that as prestigious. I thought that was kind of funny.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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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.

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?

Yes. Their brands are way stronger in the US than abroad, at least in my experience. And Columbia University would probably be ranked before them, given it's based in NYC.

[Anonymous]

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.

[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.

?

Many more people abroad (at least where I have lived) have heard of Berkeley or Stanford than Yale or Princeton.

[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.

Meant "Most foreigners are not too familiar with Yale or Princeton and do not view them more prestigious than MIT, Berkeley or Stanford even if they heard of Yale or Princeton."

[Anonymous]

Abroad, it would be Harvard,Stanford, MIT, Berkeley, Caltech.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Meant "Most foreigners are not too familiar with Yale or Princeton and do not view them more prestigious than MIT, Berkeley or Stanford even if they heard of Yale or Princeton."

Agreed!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Abroad, it would be Harvard,Stanford, MIT, Berkeley, Caltech.

MIT, Stanford, Berkeley are ranked above Yale and Princeton in the Times Higher Education World Ranking:

http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/world-university-rankings/2015/reputation-ranking

[Anonymous]

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

[Anonymous]

Carnegie Mellon is very prestigious in Asia

[Anonymous]

Cornell and Columbia get a lot of respect abroad for research. Cornell is often seen as a "lesser Ivy" here but it has a very different image overseas.

[Anonymous]

who cares?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:who cares?

Clearly, OP and a lot of posters.

If you care more about Alabama, fine, but why are you in this thread?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:U of Chicago.

Maybe these days. Twenty years ago when I was living in Canada for a summer, the Canadian professionals I was hanging out with complained that Americans did not know of Canada's good universities (McGill, but also Toronto and Queens). At the time, I was a graduate student at Chicago but none of them viewed that as prestigious. I thought that was kind of funny.

It's probably country specific. Everyone in Chile has heard of UChicago because of the Chicago Boys. In South Korea they worship US News so they've heard of UChicago.

[Anonymous]

Oxford.
Cambridge.
London School of Economics.
Harvard.
Yale
Princeton
MIT
Berkley.
Stanford.
Columbia
Brown
John Hopkins


All the rest? Not so much.