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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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.

[b]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 int[/b]eresting, more cosmopolitan city.

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

For purposes of choosing an underground graduate 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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Ummmmm..., Duke, Vanderbilt, UNC, Washington and Lee, Davidson, even Wake Forest are better schools than Tulane that are in the South. Not just Emory[/quote]

You’re responding to me here. I was thinking of a region that includes Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, South Carolina, and maybe Arkansas and Kentucky. Duke and Vanderbilt are both clearly more prestigious than Tulane. I’m not sure about the other North Carolina schools you list really are. If Wake Forest is, maybe The Citadel and Sewanee are. But I see a lot of Tulane professors on TV, and I don’t think I’ve ever seen a Citadel or Sewanee professor on TV.

The only BU faculty member I’ve ever seen on TV is Isaac Asimov.

So, at a prestige parlor game level, I think Tulane beats places like Sewanee. [/quote]

NP here. You knowledge of geography leaves a lot to be desired. It is silly to claim that "maybe" Arkansas and Kentucky count as the Southeast but not Tennessee and North Carolina.

I cannot recall seeing Tulane professors on TV. But I do see Ibram Kendi from BU on there an awful lot. [/quote]

I read Ibram Kendi's book. It smoked pole. Wouldn't pay $70k a year for my kid to "learn" from him.[/quote]

You haven't seen Tulane's John Berry on TV?

http://www.johnmbarry.com/events.htm

(he wrote the book on the 1918 flu.)

Anyway, I went to a school in new orleans as I was born and raised there. NoLa brings out the absolute worst in everybody. If your child is prone to sloth, they will be sloth-y-er. If they are prone to overeat; they/'ll do that. Drugs, sex, alcohol, music...it's all there. Kids who thrive at Tulane are dedicated. Those who aren't drop out. Many ended up at my no-name university.

Knowing nothing about BU except it's located in Boson, I'd say BU. Also, kids will be cold so maybe they'll study more.[/quote]

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