top 15 most prestigious universities

[Hillary2012]

<p>First of all, it’s Juilliard, not Julliard.</p>

<p>Secondly, Juilliard offers a lot more than just “music.”</p>

<p>As far as prestige is concerned, no comment.</p>

[k_amp_s]

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For … music. Harvard can’t be beat, sorry.

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<p>Uhh, Harvard’s music program is theory-oriented, not performance oriented (maybe you were being facetious?).</p>

<p>Top musicians don’t go to Harvard for training (that would be Curtis, Julliard, Indiana, Peabody, etc.).</p>

[IBclass06]

<p>I think eatsalot was saying that Juilliard was the best for music, but Harvard couldn’t be beat.</p>

[eatsalot]

<p>^lol yeah that is what I was trying to get at. sorry for the ambiguity!</p>

[8thkey]

<p>my top 15 would be (in no particular order) </p>

<p>ivy league = harvard yale princeton dartmouth columbia upenn cornell brown
top private schools = MIT caltech stanford uchicago duke JHU northwestern</p>

[Bruce_in_PA]

<p>Figured the best way to do this would be to answer the question before reading any of the posts. So here’s my shot; have not thought this through yet, but I’m guessing the first 10 or so are probably easy, the last five are probably tough to pin down:</p>

<p>1-5: Harvard, Yale, Stanford, Princeton, MIT
6-10: Columbia, Penn, Cornell, Duke, Dartmouth
11-15: U of Chicago, Brown, UVA, CalTech, UC-Berkeley</p>

[prodigalson]

<p>h</p>

<p>ypsm</p>

<p>whocares</p>

[prodigalson]

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@ring&lt;em&gt;of&lt;/em&gt;fire

When it comes to domestic prestige, Princeton is probably tied with Yale as the second most prestigious school. However, based on my interactions with foreign nationals and international travels, Michigan, Duke, JHU and Berkeley are more prestigious than Princeton.

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<p>Yes to Berkeley; no to the others…</p>

<p>(Look up ring<em>of</em>fire’s post history, and you won’t be surprised by where he or she goes to school.)</p>

[prodigalson]

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@ring&lt;em&gt;of&lt;/em&gt;fire

I meant because Coach K(Duke’s Mens Basketball Coach) was the coach for the US Olympic Basketball squad in Beijing this past summer. The Chinese ARE CRAZY about NBA stars and the sport in general. I’m sure this raised the reputation of Duke among the Chinese significantly.

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@ring&lt;em&gt;of&lt;/em&gt;fire

The need among CCers to impress rural Chinese farmers…with their college of choice is amusing.

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<p>So you’re saying that the opinions of the Chinese matter only depending on whether or not they know about Duke?</p>

[prodigalson]

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Outside of HYPSM, Oxford, and Cambridge regional (east coast, west coast, midwest, southern, international) biases begin to creep in to the list and prestige is relative. After those 7 the other 8 are moot.

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<p>A voice of reason…</p>

[eatsalot]

<p>^Seems like interestingguy is back under a new facade -_-. Time to ignore!</p>

[jackpot]

<p>hmmm I would say purely out of a “wow” factor, undergrad prestige is like</p>

<ol>
<li>Harvard</li>
<li>Yale/Stanford/MIT</li>
<li>Princeton</li>
<li>Columbia</li>
<li>Penn/Brown/Dartmouth/Duke</li>
<li>Cornell/JHU/Northwestern/UChicago</li>
</ol>

<p>I intentionally left out Caltech. While I firmly believe it is one of the top 5 best schools in the country, it doesn’t change the fact that the average person in America has no clue what it is.</p>

[sakky]

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it doesn’t change the fact that the average person in America has no clue what it is

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<p>I’m not sure that the average person has ever heard of UChicago or Northwestern either. UChicago in particular has arguably the worst ‘brand name’ of any of the top schools: there were teachers at my high school that had never heard of it and thought it was an average metro school akin to the University of San Francisco or the University of Miami.</p>

[Sam_Lee]

<p>I like how some Duke homers keep trying to put their school in the same sentence with HYPSM on CC. People from schools like Brown, Chicago, Cornell, Penn, Northwestern, Vanderbilt don’t do that on the other hand. Anyway, Duke’s homers seem to think that if they repeat that 1000 times, an illusion would become a reality. I am from Hong Kong and Duke isn’t close to Princeton in terms of reputation. I am pretty sure that’s the case in other parts of that Continent.</p>

[IBclass06]

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@Sam Lee

I like how some Duke homers keep trying to put their school in the same sentence with HYPSM on CC. People from schools like Brown, Chicago, Cornell, Penn, Northwestern, Vanderbilt don’t do that on the other hand.

Oh, please. As annoying as ring<em>of</em>fire is, Duke posters are no worse than any others (including some from my own alma mater). Here are just a few examples:</p>

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@President Rodin

We think the cohort that includes Harvard, Yale, Princeton, MIT, Caltech, and Stanford ought to include Penn.

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@idad

Not long ago S1 and I were sitting at a table with a mix of students from a variety of schools including HYP. At the table was a well known Harvard scholar who quite nicely asked each student about themselves. After each said their piece, he would smile nod his head and go one to the next student. When he got to S1 and heard he attended Chicago, he sat back in his chair smiled, turned to the others and said, “We have a genius at the table.” “Now there is a school.”

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@interesteddad

We can say that, measured against some theoretical ideal of perfection, Swarthmore maybe merits an A- on academics. Back in the real world, compared against the universe of what else is out there, it’s hard to imagine less than an A grade…Show me better – and don’t say Harvard, because I know that’s not true.

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@RML

I think that after Harvard, there’s no clear 2nd or 3rd and so forth. The only thing I know is that, Stanford, MIT, Berkeley, Yale are regarded just as prestigious.

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@Pinderhughes

If you look at attendance in the top law schools, Harvard, Yale, and Stanford, the Brown and Princeton attendees are much closer than, say, the Princeton vs. Yale or Harvard attendees. The selectivity differential between Princeton and Brown has never been that disparate anyway.

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<p>There are plenty more quotes where those came from…</p>

[Phead128]

<p>Hey, Sam Lee, I am from Hong Kong too.</p>

[lesdiablesbleus]

<p>How does one even measure prestige? The “average” person has never heard of any Ivy League school besides HYP and Columbia; he/she would think Duke and Stanford are just sports schools.</p>

<p>With regards to employers, Yale and Stanford are not viewed as being better than Duke, Penn, Columbia and Duke. At least with regards to investment banks, I would wager that the “Duke” name is more powerful than the “Stanford” name because of the stronger alum connections the former has in that specific industry.</p>

<p>Oh yeah, people need to stop putting YPSM on the same level of Harvard. Harvard absolutely dominates YPSM in banking, consulting, law school placement, med school placement, etc. It is exponentially better than its so-called “competitors” in these areas.</p>

[EndPhase]

<p>Harvard, Princeton, Stanford, Yale, Cal Tech, Columbia, MIT, Dartmouth, Cornell, brown, Amherest, Williams, U-Penn, Rice, Duke</p>

[UCBChemEGrad]

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How does one even measure prestige?

To keep this thread going…I say Peer Assessment. ;)</p>

[kwu]

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@lesdiablesbleus

The “average” person has never heard of any Ivy League school besides HYP and Columbia

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<p>The “average” person has never heard of any Ivy League school besides Harvard.</p>