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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Which school is more prestigious and has better job outlook? Boston U or Tulane?[/quote]

I think that students should usually pick schools based on things like net cost, student satisfaction ratings, and grad school and employment outcomes data, not prestige.

But Boston University is tied with Northeastern for being the fourth most prestigious school in Boston.

Aside from Emory and, very arguably, the University of Miami and the University of Florida, Tulane is the most prestigious school in the entire Southeastern region. Tulane is much more important to the Southeast than BU is to New England.

Tulane is also in what is really a more interesting, more cosmopolitan city.

So, in my opinion, Tulane seems as if it’s more genuinely prestigious.

For purposes of choosing an **undergraduate** school: Strong, streetwise students who can drink without becoming alcoholics and have a chance to go to Tulane, and who would pay about the same amount for both schools, should choose Tulane over BU for most majors, because Tulane is a fine school in an amazing, fragile place. Go to New Orleans while it exists.

Other students who would pay about the same amount should usually pick BU, because they’re less likely to be killed by a cop or a criminal at BU, and 
they’re much less likely to be evacuated due to a hurricane.

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