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02-02-2010, 09:00 PM
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Was shocked that so many replies mentioned my alma, IIT. I don't think more than a handful of people (outside of academia) that I have run into had heard of it. Quite a few associated it with the tech school, ITT.
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02-02-2010, 11:40 PM
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What we do see, however is a large number of Americans going to Europe or the Orient for graduate school.
Oxford and Cambridge and University of London, including LSE, are the number one choices for that.
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02-02-2010, 11:51 PM
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"the Orient"... it sound very exotic compared to the Occidental countries.
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02-02-2010, 11:53 PM
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@OP, I have heard of the university in Heidelberg and isn't Heidelberg also thought of as a "college town".
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Oxford and Cambridge
London School of Economics
St. Andrews
the Sorbonne
a Swedish university in Goteborg
McGill and Dalhousie (in Nova Scotia)
University of Bologna (oldest medical school in the world and my FIL went there)
some university in Urbino (can't miss it if you visit Urbino)
That's all for now.
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02-02-2010, 11:55 PM
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Oh! Also the Indian Institute of Management in Ahmedebad (but I only know of it because of the Louis Kahn buildings).
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02-03-2010, 08:16 AM
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Hebrew University
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02-03-2010, 08:16 PM
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^^^ Goteborg (or Gothenburg) is crummy!
In Europe (aside from the UK, my country) i know of Copenhagen, Oslo, Uppsala, Lund, FU Berlin, HU Berlin, Freiburg, Heidelberg, Munich (through Sophie Scholl), Vienna, Jagiellonian, Charles Uni in Prague, TCD and Utrecht.
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02-03-2010, 08:23 PM
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I think most people would know only Oxford, Cambridge, maybe a canadian university, and possibly that one polytechnique school that is very selective in france.
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02-03-2010, 09:27 PM
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@Dad_of_3: my dad told me about it =P
i'm a silicon valley kid... maybe 1/5 of my school is indian haha
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02-03-2010, 10:23 PM
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I've been to Heidelgerg, and it is indeed a beautiful small city. I've also been to beautiful Leiden, Holland, which is THE university city of that country. Also been to dramatic Salamanca, Spain, which is THE university city of Spain. All of these universities go against the usual worldwide situation of the best university in a country being in the capital and/or largest city.
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02-04-2010, 02:37 AM
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University of Manchester seems to pop up a lot in research. King's/Imperial college too, and naturally all the other very famous ones listed before. And in Germany, I know about the Max Planck Institute for Theoretical Physics for some reason.
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02-04-2010, 06:18 AM
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Well I'm a college student and I'll list some institutions that I consider prestigious outside of the US in no particular order. You can probably tell it's influenced by how known they are for medical research.
Oxford
Cambridge
Heidelburg
Karolinska Institute
Melbourne
McGill
Edinburgh
Tokyo
It's probably more than what the typical US college student recognizes, though. Most Americans will know about Oxford and Cambridge but that's it.
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02-04-2010, 09:19 PM
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University of Toronto
Queen's University (Kingston, Canada)
McGill
IIT in India
Can anyone recommend a college consultant in the San Francisco area?
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02-09-2010, 04:21 AM
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A representative from St Andrew's visited my (large and public) high school, so I bet Americans are more familiar with that university than would otherwise be expected.
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02-09-2010, 10:01 AM
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Chulalongkorn University - Thailand
Totally unknown for int'l but it's in a good world rank  | |
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