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This may be true to an extent but the Berkeley Learning Center still ranks U of Chicago as a Tier 1 institution and deems NU and Wash U to be in the tier right after which underrates them a bit but not egregiously so. I remember posters here talking about how Illinois and Michigan were more prestigious than some Ivies abroad and that’s clearly not true.</p>
<p>The Ivies perhaps hold more cachet internationally since the foreigners don’t always have an in-depth knowledge of American universities to break out of this line of thinking.</p>
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It matters because we live in a globalized world and many college grads may want to seek gainful employment overseas as the BRICS and the Asian Tiger economies start becoming and more competitive with the U.S. for the top human talent to drive their growth. It should be a consideration for college goers at the very least.</p>
<p>Why do you think universities like Georgetown, Duke and JHU are scrambling to create outposts and satellite campuses in Asia?</p>
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Prestige is a matter of opinion. There are certain indicators of quality that are generally agreed upon as good parameters to compare universities but there is no hard and fast rule. Otherwise you wouldn’t see thousands of threads on CC debating this very issue…good for UNLV I say.</p>