Anonymous
Post 03/12/2025 08:00     Subject: Top universities with "perceived" prestige.
Anonymous wrote:I went to Brown and lived abroad. No one has heard of it — although they do know what the Ivy League is. Picking a school because you hope people will recognize it and be impressed doesn’t seem like a good plan to me.


This is the answer. I, too, lived in Europe (England, France, and Italy) and Brown, Penn, Dartmouth, and Cornell are vastly unknown.
Anonymous
Post 03/12/2025 06:20     Subject: Top universities with "perceived" prestige.
Columbia getting a lot of bad press lately.
Anonymous
Post 03/12/2025 05:09     Subject: Top universities with "perceived" prestige.
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Sorry, but agree with PP. Prestige means, no matter where you are in the world, people's recognize as prestigious….

Duke is not it and doesn’t belong on this list. Sorry Duke boys and girls.


Yes, nobody know what Duke is outside of US similar to Brown, Dartmouth or Cornell.


Sorry, but outside the US everybody knows what Cornell is….


completely false. there are many who dont know what the hell cornell is and would think it’s in iowa


You’re really trying to make a claim that people don’t know the Ivy League school Cornell, but do know Cornell College in Iowa? They don’t even know Iowa much less Cornell College. What is the agenda here? The wildest takes on here.
Anonymous
Post 03/12/2025 03:29     Subject: Top universities with "perceived" prestige.
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Sorry, but agree with PP. Prestige means, no matter where you are in the world, people's recognize as prestigious….

Duke is not it and doesn’t belong on this list. Sorry Duke boys and girls.


Yes, nobody know what Duke is outside of US similar to Brown, Dartmouth or Cornell.


Sorry, but outside the US everybody knows what Cornell is….


completely false. there are many who dont know what the hell cornell is and would think it’s in iowa
Anonymous
Post 03/12/2025 02:06     Subject: Top universities with "perceived" prestige.
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:As someone who’s lived in major cities internationally and in the US, a grouping would be:

Harvard, Stanford, MIT, Oxford, Cambridge

Princeton, Caltech, Duke, Columbia, Yale

Berkeley, Penn, Cornell, Chicago, Hopkins


+1 I think people forget how strong the Berkeley brand is globally



Duke doesn't belong up on that tier
Anonymous
Post 03/12/2025 00:04     Subject: Re:Top universities with "perceived" prestige.
This forum is rich. I can tell you that all of my international friends through the State Department and the World Bank definitely know all of the Ivies. Many came anti as for college.

People are nuts with their agendas.
Anonymous
Post 03/11/2025 23:49     Subject: Re:Top universities with "perceived" prestige.
Anonymous wrote:Putnam Math Competition Results:

1. MIT
2. Harvard
3. Stanford
4. Carnegie Mellon
5. UC Santa Barbara
6. Brown
7. University of Chicago
8. University of Maryland
9. University of Michigan
10. University of Waterloo


Brown has the highest number of Fulbright scholars too.
Anonymous
Post 03/11/2025 23:48     Subject: Top universities with "perceived" prestige.
Anonymous wrote:I disagree with some of the International claims, perhaps it comes down to specific countries differing. In my circle in UK it’s Ivies, boarding school families from all over and still would say this is the dream for most students.


100%

Ivies -any of the 8.
Anonymous
Post 03/11/2025 22:07     Subject: Top universities with "perceived" prestige.
I went to Brown and lived abroad. No one has heard of it — although they do know what the Ivy League is. Picking a school because you hope people will recognize it and be impressed doesn’t seem like a good plan to me.
Anonymous
Post 03/11/2025 18:40     Subject: Re:Top universities with "perceived" prestige.
Agree - the Putnam results are a marker to where the true geniuses are.
Anonymous
Post 03/11/2025 18:36     Subject: Re:Top universities with "perceived" prestige.
Putnam Math Competition Results:

1. MIT
2. Harvard
3. Stanford
4. Carnegie Mellon
5. UC Santa Barbara
6. Brown
7. University of Chicago
8. University of Maryland
9. University of Michigan
10. University of Waterloo
Anonymous
Post 03/11/2025 18:28     Subject: Top universities with "perceived" prestige.
Anonymous wrote:Harvard
Stanford
Yale
Princeton
MIT
Columbia
UPenn
Duke
Cal Tech
UC Berkeley



How about Northwestern?
Anonymous
Post 03/11/2025 18:21     Subject: Re:Top universities with "perceived" prestige.
Anonymous wrote:Actually, Brown, Duke, and Princeton have about the same level of international prestige. While Princeton is considered a top 5 university in the States, its lack of major professional programs somewhat dilutes its brand internationally. I would say that Harvard, Stanford, Yale, and Columbia are the most prestigious American universities internationally in that order.


WRONG…..


Brown and Duke are not even known outside of the US. I lived in the UK for 14 years and Germany and Italy for 6 each. let me tell you. I went to Cornell and my wife went to Brown, and nobody had any idea what Brown was. Everybody knew Cornell. Cornell is known everywhere. Whether you like it or not. brown less so. Duke, nobody has a clue of what that is.
Anonymous
Post 03/11/2025 18:19     Subject: Top universities with "perceived" prestige.
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Sorry, but agree with PP. Prestige means, no matter where you are in the world, people's recognize as prestigious….

Duke is not it and doesn’t belong on this list. Sorry Duke boys and girls.


Yes, nobody know what Duke is outside of US similar to Brown, Dartmouth or Cornell.


Sorry, but outside the US everybody knows what Cornell is….
Anonymous
Post 03/11/2025 17:21     Subject: Top universities with "perceived" prestige.
^ I’ve looked on the naciance equivalent, no one applies to Duke, JHU or Northwestern. California schools are popular due to location.