<p>Well, if you have long-term career goals in East Asia, it can’t hurt to have a degree that’s well-known there. Ultimately, if you plan on staying in the States, however, it’s just silly to care.</p>
<p>Not to worry.
True that UVa was not well known in Asia in the past, but recently that trend has been reversed. They started noticing UVa as one of the best colleges in the US… and in the world. But it takes time to change people’s perception, so let’s be patient and keep watching! Go, Wahoos!</p>
<p>Three things:</p>
<p>Summary: Why is UVA not as well known as other large publics? Because the faculty there doesn’t do and publish as much research as faculty at many other schools. And this is especially true in technical fields.</p>
<p>Summary: Does it matter? In some cases, the answer is “yes.” Both Europeans and Asians (as a broad generalization) tend to put more weight on where you went to school than Americans do. A person doing business in Japan or Germany with a Harvard degree is going to have an advantage over someone with a degree from an unknown college.</p>
<p>Summary: Is there anything to be done? Yes. UVA could focus more on research, but that would probably reduce its focus on undergrad education. That’s not necessarily a good thing.</p>
<p>This is a stupid debate. Only so many US schools are going to be recognized worldwide. UVA isn’t Harvard or Yale. I don’t see what the big deal is.</p>
<p>Also as far as UCB being popular in Asia…it’s in Cali. Why is this a surprise.</p>
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<p>But UCB is also very, very popular in Europe especially in France, Italy, Germany, UK, Spain, Rusia, Ukrain, Portugal and Turkey.</p>
<p>…who…cares…</p>
<p>how about we put it this way. for the .01% of the people who want to work overseas, don’t come to UVa. For everyone else come on down.</p>
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<p>It’s not just that…UC-Berkeley is one of the finest research institutions in the world. It is as least as big a academia and research as any other university in the United States. That doesn’t mean that it’s the best place to go as an undergraduate, though.</p>
<p>If one can, for the time being, ignore the vocational (i.e., professional) schools, these are best schools for pure-academic graduate programs.</p>
<p>Engineering: MIT-Berkeley-Stanford-Caltech</p>
<p>Hard Sciences (inc. Math): MIT-Caltech-Berkeley-Princeton-Harvard-Stanford-Chicago</p>
<p>Biological Sciences: Harvard-MIT-Berkeley-Stanford-UCSD</p>
<p>Social Sciences: Berkeley-Harvard-Chicago-Stanford-Michigan-Wisconsin</p>
<p>Humanities : Harvard-Berkeley-Princeton-Columbia-Cornell</p>
<h1>of entity: school</h1>
<p>5: Berkeley
4: Harvard, Stanford
3: MIT,
2: Caltech, Princeton, Chicago
- Columbia, Cornell, Michigan, Wisconsin, UCSD</p>
<p>Some observations:</p>
<p>1) All schools mentioned are located in BLUE states.
2) The schools that scored more than 2 points are all included in the WCU list
3) Cavalier knows what hes talking about :</p>
<p>Rabban,</p>
<p>I’d put Duke on social science and humanities any day. I’d also put UCSD on social sciences.</p>
<p>what does being “blue” or “red” have to do with the price of tea in china?</p>
<p>I travelled to europe with a UC-Berkley student and nobody in europe gave a damn about her education there. They only were impressed that she hails from California. If she said “I got to UC-Berkley” they would look at her with blank stares. it’s only when she mentioned “University of California at Berkley” that they would all go “OHHHH California!!”</p>
<p>…but, that’s besides the point…</p>
<p>nobody cares is really the point, unless you’re in international studies or planning some kind of international business venture whereby you plan on riding on the wonderful and oh so impressive fact that you went to Harvard, Yale, etc., versus the fact that you can actually produce results…</p>
<p>Once your education is complete and you actually make a name for yourself in your industry/company, nobody even begins to care where you went to school. I guarantee it.</p>
<p>ridiculous assumption. California is 20% asian. Those from Asia will naturally be inclined to know more about Cal, than other schools. Many in asia assume the state of Ca is the US.</p>
<p>I don’t know about any colleges in Asia.</p>
<p>UVa isn’t perceived so well in Asia (especially) because Asians tend to gravitate toward math/science/engineering and grad school while UVa’s focus is on undergrads and more towards humanities/social sciences/commerce.</p>