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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This list is NONSENSE. I am an immigrant educated in Britain (Oxbridge), with many years in Asia, and there is NO WAY that Chinese University of Hong Kong, or EPFL, or Kyoto University, NUS (Singapore) or McGill are better than the top schools in the US (including SLACs)! The students in these universities want to come to the US for a better education not the other way around.

This is just a list put together to try to be "globally representative" and fails to capture the true academic and educational experience of US universities.

We sent our kids to US schools even though our kids got some of these universities. There is simply no comparison to the educational experience in the US.   [/quote]

I’d be really interested in seeing a thread by people with experience like yours comparing and contrasting.

What makes you favor top U.S. schools over top non-U.S. schools?

Say we were talking about William and Mary and Virginia Tech, not the la la land lottery schools. If William and Mary were in the UK, where, in your opinion, would it fit in the university hierarchy?

Where do you feel schools like Leiden University or the Sorbonne would fit if they were in the United States?

NOT because I care about rankings, as such, but because a lot of U.S. kids are looking at bachelor’s degree programs in Europe and Canada these days, and I’m wondering how to weight education quality factors along with cost and convenience factors.

Is a McGill class really worse than the equivalent University of Maryland class? If yes, why?

How about if the comparison school were James Madison or George Mason, rather than a state flagship?

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