Alexandre

EAD, remember that you are now a guest on the Michigan forum. Expect the posters here to be supporters of the University of Michigan and you should respect that. You won't see us going to the Duke forum and direspect your university.

This said, I do not see how you can say that Duke provides better job placement than Michigan. Do you have proof of that? Can you prove that certain recruiters who recruit at Duke do not recruit at Michigan? Can you prove that companies that recruit on both campuses give preferential treatment to Duke students? Do you have evidence that a student at Duke will be chosen over a student at Michigan, all other things being equal, just because of the name of the university?

Furthermore, how can you say Duke is "clearly better" than Michigan in BME or that, when it comes to BME, "there is no comparison at all between Duke and Michigan." Duke is ranked #2 and Michigan is ranked #9. Granted, Duke is better than Michigan in BME, but it is not night and day.

Finally, can you please show me evidence that Duke has better overall name recognition than Cornell or Michigan? The peer assessment score begs to differ and I have not seen any rating conducted on real-world sentiment, but I would assume it would resember academe's point of view.