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<p>It’s a similar question that has a similar answer. Once again, schools like MIT, Stanford, and Berkeley have far bigger worldwide brand-names than IIT does. IIT is obviously very well known within India and is starting to get better known elsewhere, but let’s be honest, the brand name still does not compare to that of the top US engineering schools. Might IIT get there at some point? Sure, but it’s going to be a long road. </p>
<p>Now, like I said, marketing matters less when it comes to undergraduate studies. What is more important are the job opportunities that the schools present and (if you plan to get your PhD) the research opportunities available. I think the former is yet another aspect that all American schools have over IIT. The fact is, most people who go to college do so because they want to get a job, and hence you want access to your school’s career office, because that’s where companies go to recruit. By going to an American school, especially a top one, you get access to top American jobs. By going to IIT, you basically get access only to Indian jobs (and a few multinationals, but those jobs will still probably be located in India). A lot of Indians would love to be able to work in the US for US pay. However, I few Americans are willing to work in India for Indian pay. Don’t get me wrong. India is booming and the salaries and living standards are increasingly rapidly, but the US still has a better average standard of living. </p>
<p>In fact, historically, many IIT grads would go to US graduate engineering school (even from a no-name graduate school), and not always because they really want to get a graduate degree, but often times because they simply want access to the US job market, and studying at a US school is the way to get that access. (Similarly many of the top Indian students studied at Oxford or Cambridge to get access to the British job market). This has become less prevalent as the Indian economy has grown, creating lots of jobs back in India, but still there are many Indians who want to immigrate to the US, but comparatively few Americans who want to immigrate to India.</p>