What's more important, individual program or overall reputation?

aviatoralex
Thu, 20 Dec 2012 21:54:51 +0000

Should one weigh how good a university is overall and how good its reputation is, more than one would their individual program that he/she wants to major in? To place this in context, Brandeis has a better reputation and is a better university overall, however BU has a better economics program that is more highly ranked. I was considering doing ED2 to Brandeis, but I’m not sure which is better. What do you think? Would this make a difference for Grad School? I really want to go to a top tier grad school.