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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Americans will know very little about foreign universities outside of the obvious ones like Oxford and Cambridge.  Conversely, I've lived abroad and I find they generally have little knowledge of U.S. universities outside of a select few.  That said, recruiters generally have a broader view and they can certainly access rankings resources.[/quote]

Recruiters are generally pretty idiosyncratic in school preference and aren't usually looking for global rankings to guide them. In my first job out of college I worked in recruiting for a F100 company. My boss gave me very rough instructions on how to screen resumes: American universities (in any event NEVER Indian ones), specifically ones I had heard of. I probably would have promoted a resume from, say, Oxford or Cambridge, because even though it's foreign I knew it was good, but the company relied on my familiarity with schools as a 22 yr old, and I didn't go hunting around for UK/EU school rankings. [/quote]

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