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Anonymous wrote:The publics of Berkeley, UCLA, and Michigan are all in the same tier.

Domestically that's true, but internationally Berkeley and UCLA have much greater recognition.

Bolded comment was meant to be a dig on UVA.

Why? Because it wasn't mentioned? Lots of public schools weren't mentioned.

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Anonymous wrote:Dear lord please stop with the ranking! It becomes a DCUM pissing contest.

+1 the weird obsession never ends.

And what are your "weird obsessions" ? Pissing on others' discussions ?

LOL, hit a nerve I guess?

No, I just find it amusing that one who disses such threads spends so much time reading and posting on the same threads.

I wasn't the PP, I was responding to your response. You seem defensive and how old are you? Dissing, pissing...are you a teenager? Anyway I find it amusing that you find it amusing that because someone makes a general comment you amusingly get hyper-defensive and attack that person. It's all very amusing.

"Pissing" was used by another poster in a post to which I was responding.

You seem young & immature based on your desire to insult others.

Again, I find your time spent on this thread to be amusing as your sole purpose appears to be an attempt to derail thread by insulting others.

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Anonymous wrote:The publics of Berkeley, UCLA, and Michigan are all in the same tier.

Domestically that's true, but internationally Berkeley and UCLA have much greater recognition.

Among the uneducated perhaps, in Academia no…

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Anonymous wrote:Perspective of someone who attended international schools in the Middle East and Southeast Asia.

Tier 1: HYPSM, Oxford, Cambridge

Tier 2: Columbia, Chicago, Duke, Wharton

Tier 3: Northwestern, Cornell, UPenn, Caltech (suffers from complete lack of name recognition but otherwise would be Tier 2)

Tier 4: Brown, Dartmouth, Johns Hopkins

Tier 5 and below: Imperial, UCL, LSE, NYU, etc.

How did Duke get so popular around the world so quickly? When I was growing up I just knew I didn't want Duke basketball to win anything and no one said anything about it being a good school. Of course now I know it's a world-class university that's better than most of the ivy league schools, but I seriously wonder what happened between my childhood and now.

When you open up a collaborative university in PRC (Duke Kunshan) your world recognition is bound to rise.

Smart investment by them, seeing that China is the next big market. Parents, now is a good time to get your kids into Duke before it gets flooded by international students.

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Anonymous wrote:Perspective of someone who attended international schools in the Middle East and Southeast Asia.

Tier 1: HYPSM, Oxford, Cambridge

Tier 2: Columbia, Chicago, Duke, Wharton

Tier 3: Northwestern, Cornell, UPenn, Caltech (suffers from complete lack of name recognition but otherwise would be Tier 2)

Tier 4: Brown, Dartmouth, Johns Hopkins

Tier 5 and below: Imperial, UCL, LSE, NYU, etc.

How did Duke get so popular around the world so quickly? When I was growing up I just knew I didn't want Duke basketball to win anything and no one said anything about it being a good school. Of course now I know it's a world-class university that's better than most of the ivy league schools, but I seriously wonder what happened between my childhood and now.

When you open up a collaborative university in PRC (Duke Kunshan) your world recognition is bound to rise.

Anonymous wrote:Perspective of someone who attended international schools in the Middle East and Southeast Asia.

Tier 1: HYPSM, Oxford, Cambridge

Tier 2: Columbia, Chicago, Duke, Wharton

Tier 3: Northwestern, Cornell, UPenn, Caltech (suffers from complete lack of name recognition but otherwise would be Tier 2)

Tier 4: Brown, Dartmouth, Johns Hopkins

Tier 5 and below: Imperial, UCL, LSE, NYU, etc.

How did Duke get so popular around the world so quickly? When I was growing up I just knew I didn't want Duke basketball to win anything and no one said anything about it being a good school. Of course now I know it's a world-class university that's better than most of the ivy league schools, but I seriously wonder what happened between my childhood and now.

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Anonymous wrote:The publics of Berkeley, UCLA, and Michigan are all in the same tier.

Domestically that's true, but internationally Berkeley and UCLA have much greater recognition.

Bolded comment was meant to be a dig on UVA.

Anonymous wrote:The publics of Berkeley, UCLA, and Michigan are all in the same tier.

Domestically that's true, but internationally Berkeley and UCLA have much greater recognition.

The publics of Berkeley, UCLA, and Michigan are all in the same tier.

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Anonymous wrote:Dear lord please stop with the ranking! It becomes a DCUM pissing contest.

+1 the weird obsession never ends.

+1 But I can't seem to look away from the for-profit scams that are rankings which have nothing to do with actual undergraduate experiences

My DH and I battle over our Masters degree schools and make our kids where swag depending on whatever list we dig up on the internet. Our kids don't care because we went to school before iPhones

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Dear lord please stop with the ranking! It becomes a DCUM pissing contest.

+1 the weird obsession never ends.

And what are your "weird obsessions" ? Pissing on others' discussions ?

LOL, hit a nerve I guess?

No, I just find it amusing that one who disses such threads spends so much time reading and posting on the same threads.

I wasn't the PP, I was responding to your response. You seem defensive and how old are you? Dissing, pissing...are you a teenager? Anyway I find it amusing that you find it amusing that because someone makes a general comment you amusingly get hyper-defensive and attack that person. It's all very amusing.

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Anonymous wrote:Oxford is number one. Again.

https://www.timeshighereducation.com/world-university-rankings/2023/world-ranking

Times Higher Education is known to be biased towards UK schools since it's a UK-based publication. No one believes Oxford is greater than Harvard anymore, it just isn't. Also, what is likely more relevant for us is their US Undergraduate Rankings which they also have.

This is all true. But the prestige of US universities overall is certainly falling and I think that is real.

The only countries with schools that are making any sort of progress against US schools are China and in the near future India. Each European country has like 1 school each that can sort of compete with top US schools, but outside of Oxford and Cambridge not really. Peking and Tsinghua are probably the schools with the most potential to compete with a Harvard or Duke or MIT in the US for undergrad.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Dear lord please stop with the ranking! It becomes a DCUM pissing contest.

+1 the weird obsession never ends.

And what are your "weird obsessions" ? Pissing on others' discussions ?

LOL, hit a nerve I guess?

No, I just find it amusing that one who disses such threads spends so much time reading and posting on the same threads.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Oxford is number one. Again.

https://www.timeshighereducation.com/world-university-rankings/2023/world-ranking

Times Higher Education is known to be biased towards UK schools since it's a UK-based publication. No one believes Oxford is greater than Harvard anymore, it just isn't. Also, what is likely more relevant for us is their US Undergraduate Rankings which they also have.

This is all true. But the prestige of US universities overall is certainly falling and I think that is real.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Dear lord please stop with the ranking! It becomes a DCUM pissing contest.

+1 the weird obsession never ends.

And what are your "weird obsessions" ? Pissing on others' discussions ?

LOL, hit a nerve I guess?