<p>In term of academic quality and prestigue…where does Hopkins stand Is it at the same level as Northwestern UChicago WUSTL CMU and such?</p>
<p>Easily. Well I’d put UChicago above all of them, but JHU is definitely equal to the rest.</p>
<p>If you are willing to look at peer assessment, which has something to so with academic quality and perceived prestige among academics, I believe Hopkins and Chicago have something like a 4.6 and 4.7 respectively. The rest have 4.4s and WUSTL may have a 4.3. In fact, Hopkins’ peer assessment is above Brown’s, Penn’s and some other school. Also, on the old Boalt scale, used by Boalt law, Hopkins degrees we’re looked upon much better than the rest, with the exception of Chicago (with whom Hopkins may have been tied) based upon the academic quality of the degree. I Agree with Johnny K, I’m just trying to supply some empirical evidence.</p>
<p>Northwestern, Duke, Cornell, U. Chicago, WashU, Georgetown</p>
<p>I doubt you can simplistically rank these schools in order like this. It really depends on your major. Carnegie Mellon probably trumps the rest if your focus is Computer Science. Hopkins has a great International Studies program. Doesn’t Chicago have top economics and philosophy departments if I recall correctly? It makes much more sense to look at the strength of the department you intend to major in. They are all prestigious schools with a lot to offer.</p>
<p>Chicago, Penn, Duke, Brown, Dartmouth, Columbia, and Cornell</p>
<p>It’s definitely more difficult to get into Columbia, Stanford, Dartmouth, and Penn than Hopkins though.</p>
<p>Yeah, but peers aren’t defined solely in terms of acceptance rate.</p>
<p>CMU isnt Hopkins peer.</p>
<p>Thus, the general formula is
All schools better then JHU = Peers
All schools even slightly worse = Not peers</p>
<p>If your going to call Chicago and Columbia peersof Hopkins, you have to call CMU a peer as well.</p>
<p>This thread is pointless.</p>
<p>Peers are schools whose students in turn would mention Hopkins if asked who are their peers. In this regard, Columbia,Dartmouth,Brown and maybe Penn are out. I’d consider Hopkins’ peers to be Northwestern,Rice,WUSTL, maybe UChicago (Uchicago might be better academically at social sciences and humanities but lacking in terms of engineering). CMU is not really comparable to Hopkins as it is more geared towards engineering and CS than anything else (although its theatre program is ok).</p>
<p>Washington U has a 4.1 peer assessment rank. To determine what and what is not a peer, if one is speaking about academics, which I hope all of you are, Hopkins ranks more highly than many of those mentioned, and ties with Columbia and Cornell at a 4.6/5. Its academic, “peer” rank is higher than Penn’s, Brown’s, and Dartmouth’s. Do you really care about most of the other categories that comprise overall rank? What information, relevant to your educations, is otherwise valuable to you, in terms of your futures, and the respect that academia gives? As I suggested in the past, the categories that USNWR use, can, and, in fact, have been altered, over the years. The one number that you can rely on, in terms of the long term viability of your education, and, therefore, the value of your degree, will be that of peer assessment.</p>
<p>Peer assessment is a joke. Berkeley gets a 4.8 for undergrad? Obviously grad school is affecting the reputation of what should be an undergrad survey. You’d be lying to yourself if you think Columbia college is worse or even comparable to a JHU education. And this is coming from someone at JHU who has made a mistake.</p>
<p>Ouch. Them’s harsh words.</p>
<p>i’d include MIT actually, with duke, georgetown, cornell, wash u, chicago and northewestern.</p>
<p>I’m sorry, MIT? That’s in a league of its own with hypsc. I think you’ll find very, very few people who would call it a peer school of jhu.</p>
<p>Here are some of its undergraduate level peers. JHU is underrated. I would personally choose it over many if not most of these:</p>
<p>Chicago, Northwestern, Brown, University of Rochester, Dartmouth, Columbia, Michigan, Cornell, Stanford, Duke, Harvey Mudd College, Macalester, Bowdoin, Swarthmore, Trinity, Berkeley, Claremont McKenna, Pomona, Rice, UPenn, Wesleyan, Williams, Amherst, Haverford, Oberlin, WUSTL, Carnegie Mellon, Smith, Carleton, Middlebury, Wellesley</p>
<p>^You’ve got to be kidding me.</p>
<p>JHU over Stanford, Duke, Columbia, Cornell, HMC, Amherst, Williams, Dartmouth, Chicago, NU, Pomona, Upenn??</p>
<p>Yes, but it would depend what I was interested in studying there. JHU is a very, very good school.</p>
<p>Depends on what you’re studying… I picked Hopkins over Caltech, Berkeley, Stanford, Duke, Cornell and a few others</p>