Stanford more prestigious? I don't think so.

lockn
Mon, 05 Mar 2012 22:29:47 +0000

In California, Stanford is more prestigious. In New York, Columbia is more prestigious. In the US as a whole, the more prestigious is whichever one fares better in a massive study (which has yet to be conducted) of random people on the street, employers, graduate schools, and Jewish mothers-in-law. But I think it would be a tie.

This is a somewhat dynamic situation. Columbia is an up-and-comer on the scale of a few decades and may not have plateaued yet. That isn’t so much the case for Stanford, but athletic programs and connection to the tech industry also give it a bigger public profile.