@JenniferClint : That is why I didn’t like (and agree with) how Noncreativity1 presented a ranking where there’s only about a dozen or so schools which separate Berkeley from Duke. We could be nitpicking league tables just to win in an argument, when in fact, there is very little that separates between them, unlike in engineering where Berkeley is considered part of the “holy trinity”, standing alongside MIT and Stanford. And, for the record, I did not present those rankings to tell anyone on here that Berkeley is superior to Duke for banking/finance, but to disprove anyone who claims Berkeley would be a terrible training ground and feeder school to banking/finance.
I agree Duke is a fantastic school, as a whole. In the same way that I agree Yale, for instance, is an amazing school, in general. But those schools have weaknesses and engineering happens to be the worst of them. Coincidentally, engineering happens to be Berkeley’s one of its strongest departments, and Berkeley – its name – is highly reputable, not only in America but throughout the whole universe. Duke, though good as a whole, doesn’t enjoy such grandiose reputation as Berkeley’s, specially in the tech universe. In fact, for many, many serious and highly dedicated, extremely talented engineering aspirants, Duke is not on their radar.
If we’re talking about WS, I agree Duke has more presence there. But we’re not talking about WS, are we?