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Please rank these schools in order of prestige and recognition.

YankeeUK2008

Columbia
Duke
Dartmouth
UPenn

Please rank these in the order you think is the most prestigious and internationally recognized? I recieved acceptence letters from all of them and I wondering which school would be the best choice. Thanks.

Reply 1

Champagne Breakfast

16

generally i'd say:

columbia
upenn
dartmouth/duke

i can't decide which is more prestigious/recognized, duke or dartmouth. given that dartmouth is an ivy it might possibly just edge out duke, but i'd say both are roughly similar

is this undergrad/postgrad?

OP

Post-grad

Why does everyone on TSR have an obsession with ranking schools?

Reply 4

Champagne Breakfast

16

in that case i'd put duke above dartmouth, possibly above upenn. as it's international recognition/prestige i'm basically going off gut instincts, so wait for some other responses.

Reply 5

Champagne Breakfast

16

ScholarsInk

Why does everyone on TSR have an obsession with ranking schools?

the op went to harvard..... jokes!

What course is this?

International recgnition for postgrad education, as a whole:

Columbia
Duke / Penn

gap

Dartmouth

Reply 8

xxxchrisxxx

11

columbia

gap

upenn
duke

huge huge gap

dartmouth

Reply 9

icapturethecastle

16

in order for recogntion only

Dartmouth
UPenn
Columbia
Duke

in terms of recognition that should be pretty fair since i don't know much about US unis...

but i have no way about reputation

Reply 10

ScholarsInk

10

tami*

in order for recogntion only

Dartmouth
UPenn
Columbia
Duke

in terms of recognition that should be pretty fair since i don't know much about US unis...

but i have no way about reputation

You'd put Dartmouth's recognition above Columbia's. Really?

Reply 11

Guitara

ScholarsInk

You'd put Dartmouth's recognition above Columbia's. Really?

She watches Gossip Girl, that's why I only know Dartmouth and Columbia.

In the order I know them:
Columbia
Dartmouth
UPenn
Duke

But I don't actually know how good they are...

Reply 12

devil09

7

But I don't actually know how good they are...

That's because the OP didn't list a field/program. Depending on the program, I would rank them in several different ways.

Econ (the OP's major)
Penn
Columbia
-slight gap-
Duke

MBA
Penn
-gap-
Dartmouth
Columbia/Duke

Champagne Breakfast

can't decide which is more prestigious/recognized, duke or dartmouth. given that dartmouth is an ivy it might possibly just edge out duke

Maybe it's just me, but I think the athletic programs give Duke just a wee bit more name recognition than Dartmouth's ivy status. :p:

Reply 13

YankeeUK2008

OP

6

So Columbia seems to be at the top of people's list on here.

Is Columbia University well known in the UK?

Reply 14

ScholarsInk

10

YankeeUK2008

So Columbia seems to be at the top of people's list on here.

Is Columbia University well known in the UK?

You'd refuse a Columbia acceptance because of what someone in the UK might think? Not the best move - it's quite clearly one of the world's best universities.

Although, of your choices, I'd pick Penn. IMO it's a better school than the others that you listed - however, all of them are excellent. The top two are clearly Columbia and Penn though.

Reply 15

devil09

7

IMO it's a better school than the others that you listed

Completely irrelevant. At the (post-)graduate level, it is more important to choose the best PROGRAM rather than the best SCHOOL. They're not always the same thing. In any case, three of the OP's choices are clearly world-class universities.

A student wanting to pursue oceanography, for example, would be best served at 5 places: UCSD, MIT, URI, Miami, and Columbia. Schools like Harvard and Berkeley simply do not perform or place at all well in this area. It's all a matter of specialization and fit.

Reply 16

YankeeUK2008

OP

6

ScholarsInk

You'd refuse a Columbia acceptance because of what someone in the UK might think? Not the best move - it's quite clearly one of the world's best universities.

Although, of your choices, I'd pick Penn. IMO it's a better school than the others that you listed - however, all of them are excellent. The top two are clearly Columbia and Penn though.

I am not going to base my descision off a student board but I would like to get the opinions of students from around the world.

Reply 17

YankeeUK2008

OP

6

Completely irrelevant. At the (post-)graduate level, it is more important to choose the best PROGRAM rather than the best SCHOOL. They're not always the same thing. In any case, three of the OP's choices are clearly world-class universities.

A student wanting to pursue oceanography, for example, would be best served at 5 places: UCSD, MIT, URI, Miami, and Columbia. Schools like Harvard and Berkeley simply do not perform or place at all well in this area. It's all a matter of specialization and fit.

I agree and then I disagree at the same time. Name recognition can also play a big part. While a graduate degree from Harvard in a certain field may not be as prestigious as another in the same field, a Harvard Masters is still worth a lot. Take for instance the KSG (Kennedy School of Government), it is highly ranked but not as high ranked as Syracuse, which is number one in Public Administration/Policy. Yet, KSG grads I believe make much much more then Syracuse grads upon graduating.