<p>I’m interested in pursuing a career in academia and am curious if the same respect is given to a Yale graduate in Europe or Asia as is to a Harvard graduate. Can anyone speak to this?</p>
<p>If Yale and Harvard are both in the top ten universities on the planet out of tens of thousands of universities – what do you think the differences are between them?</p>
<p>^ Yeah. At that point I don’t think a single digit difference in ranking matters.</p>
<p>First apply. If you’ll have a choice between the two, then you will have what I would call a High Class Problem.</p>
<p>^ Like!</p>
<p>People who get accepted to both are respected all around the world.</p>
<p>In academia, people tend not to care about your undergraduate institution at all. What counts is your graduate school pedigree. And that is very field-specific. There are fields where Harvard and Yale are 1-2 (or 2-1), and fields where neither is in the top 10.</p>
<p>So the question you really meant to ask – or really mean to ask if it ever becomes relevant to you – is whether Yale will give you as good a chance as Harvard to be accepted in a top PhD program in whatever field you decide. And the answer is, yes it does, maybe even better.</p>