> ...I can’t think of a school with more regional status and less national status than USC... The state schools in the midwest are an example of this - say, Ka

> ...I can’t think of a school with more regional status and less national status than USC... The state schools in the midwest are an example of this - say, Kansas State University. Another one: Catholic schools -- St. Louis University; huge regionally, but not nationally. I was not marinated in NY State, but my impression is that the SUNY schools have some of this too. Really, I think there are a lot of colleges with a big regional reputation, but not so much nationally. If you know international students, you can see the same kind of thing play out in a larger stage -- universities that are top nationally, but not so well-known outside the country. Say, Seoul National University, or Tsinghua, or ENS, or some of the IITs or IISc. And incidentally, for these excellent schools, it's not their fault that their quality is not well-known outside their host region.