<p>Has somebody done analysis Penn vs Yale? Advantages and disadvantages of studying there and future chances for the best grad school and professional life after graduation.</p>
<p>An actual analysis? No.</p>
<p>Compared the two? Yes, many times. But every answer is different and depends on the student, what they’re looking for in a college and what they do once they get there.</p>
<p>Penn and Yale have different atmospheres, with Penn being somewhat more pre-professional and Yale somewhat more relaxed and artsy (those are, of course, gross generalizations - you can find plenty of pre-professional kids at Yale and artsy kids at Penn). Have you visited? It’s the best way to get a feel for the similarities and differences.</p>
<p>…Yale is just cooler :P</p>
<p>I got into a bit of an argument with Booyaksha over on the Brown thread a few days back. Since I went to neither but have family who studied at both I think I’m fairly impartial…</p>
<p>The numbers are arbitrary, not trying to make a value judgment here:</p>
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<li><p>Yale is a bit stronger in math/physics/chem than Penn but they are in the same tier in terms of faculty citations and PhD placement. Neither is a Harvard/Stanford/MIT.</p></li>
<li><p>Penn is a bit stronger than Yale in medicine. Penn med is considered a peer of Johns Hopkins, Harvard and Washington University.</p></li>
<li><p>Yale is the best in the world in history and English though Penn is top 5-10 these days.</p></li>
<li><p>Penn is much stronger in every field of engineering and finance/business (at the grad level).</p></li>
<li><p>Yale econ and Penn econ (SAS) are at the same tier; Yale has the best econometrics group in the world, Penn has one of the best macro research groups at the assistant and associate prof level (getting poached by other schools though).</p></li>
<li><p>Yale has the nation’s (world’s?) best law school, great political science, both considerably better than Penn (which is slightly below the big five in law: Y, H, S, Columbia, NYU)</p></li>
<li><p>finance, investment banking recruitment: edge to Wharton, then Yale, then Penn SAS which gets overshadowed a bit by Wharton</p></li>
<li><p>my guess is Yale is better for a Washington career</p></li>
<li><p>Yale and Penn are about the same for a media, journalism career, both have great contacts in NYC</p></li>
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<p>FWIW, I don’t know know reliable it is, but Payscale.com did a survey and found Penn grads outearn Yale grads 0-5 years out and Yale grads outearn Penn grads 10-20 years out. I find self-reported compensation studies a bit unreliable though. Dartmouth is tops in the country at 134,000, and Harvard is between Yale and Penn at 124,000.</p>
<p>Yale
0 to 5 years
$59,100
10 to 20 years
$126,000</p>
<p>Penn
0 to 5 years
$60,900
10 to 20 years
$120,000</p>
<p>Yale has a great econometrics group?
I’m going there enxt year, but I was told by quite a few people that Yale’s econ department is not into quantitative economics or econometrics. Is this not true?</p>
<p>Both schools are among the nation’s and the world’s finest. You couldn’t make a wrong choice between them if you tried :)</p>