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

[Anonymous]

Caltech, Berkeley, Harvard, Stanford, MIT

[Anonymous]

When I was growing up in Asia many, many years ago, I used to hear about H/P/Mit/CalTech/Berkeley. Not much else.

[Anonymous]

MIT, Berkeley and Stanford.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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

UVA is not even in the top 100. UVA is not regarded highly (if it is even known outside of US) abroad.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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 bet less than one in a thousand Americans have heard of Amherst (or have an opinion on how prestigious it is). I'm from New England and knew the names of the good schools around there but had never heard of places like Grinnell or Macalester or Scripps and I bet most people outside of those parts of the country haven't, either. Nowadays you come across those names on lists of "top colleges" but people in other countries--and people who don't have high school students bound for a competitive college--don't buy US News and World Report.

[Anonymous]

UCLA and USC are becoming popular schools with overseas students.
Vanderbuilt is on the list of schools for Eastern European graduate students.
Kent State University is quite popular with West Europeans, specializing in languages and translation.
Washington University-St. Louis the place to go for medical school if they can't get into the top universities of the country,

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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

UVA is not even in the top 100. UVA is not regarded highly (if it is even known outside of US) abroad.

Right. UVA is regarded highly only in Virginia.

[Anonymous]

I find it amazing Berkeley is always included even thought, in the U.S., it's not very respected. True international brand name!!

[Anonymous]

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

IIT (india), USTC (china), Oxford, Cambridge, ETH (Switzerland), Tokyo (Japan), Imperial (England)

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Just look at the Shanghai Rankings. Pretty much puts the schools in order for you.

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Anonymous wrote:I find it amazing Berkeley is always included even thought, in the U.S., it's not very respected. True international brand name!!

UC Berkeley is highly respected. Without the endowment size and student/faculty ratio criteria, it would be in top 10 even under US News domestic rankings.

US News' Global University Rankings place UC Berkeley 3rd in the world:

http://www.usnews.com/education/best-global-universities/rankings?int=9cf408

[Anonymous]

Those in Virginia will insist UVA is better than UC Berkeley.

[Anonymous]

Cambridge, Oxford.

[Anonymous]

Berkeley, Harvard, MIT, Stanford, Yale, and whatever other excellent university happens to be within commuting distance of your parents' house.

As the daughter of immigrants, I can tell you that immigrant families will often choose a less highly-ranked college or university over more prestigious ones, if it means their child can stay close to home.

My sibling was admitted to Yale and Notre Dame, but my parents insisted they attend ND because they could drive there in three hours.

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Anonymous wrote:Those in Virginia will insist UVA is better than UC Berkeley.

If you are an immigrant family living in Virginia then, yes, you will likely prefer Virginia to Berkeley for the proximity reason discussed in the previous post.