| Alexandre, no offense, but schools of UMich's caliber are national universities, not regional ones. Very rarely will you encounter an educated person in the US, namely an employer or a graduate school admissions officer, who will not recognize a school of UMich's caliber as an exceptional academic institution.
Now, if you want to talk international repuation, then that's a different story. But, even so, there are a lot more universities in the US that are internationally regarded than just HYP... (Stanford, MIT, Columbia, Cornell, UPenn, NYU, Georgetown, UChicago, UC Berkeley, UCLA....the list is pretty much endless). |