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In fact, there are very few international universities that are well known among the general public in the United States. The only other international schools
by falsestprophet 17y ago
In fact, there are very few international universities that are well known among the general public in the United States.
The only other international schools that I suspect are well known are McGill and the Sorbonne.
- wglb 17y agoWaterloo? U of Toronto?
- unalone 17y agoLegitimate American here! Waterloo is that battle Napoleon was in, right? And U of X doesn't ever strike me as reputable unless it's Tokyo University, and I don't think many Americans know Tokyo University either. Outside of England the only schools I know of are Trinity in Ireland and IIT.
- jrockway 17y agoI don't have anything against "U of X"es. The University of Chicago, University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign), University of Wisconsin (Madison), and University of California (Berkeley) are all good schools. I think that in the right fields any of those schools will get you anything having gone to MIT or Stanford would (except with alumni of MIT and Stanford). Incidentally, nobody interviewing me has ever asked where I went to school. Seems like something that matters only if you have no proof of competence.
- unalone 17y agoYou forgot UPenn, which is the only U of X that is in the Ivies. But that was kind of my point. The names all run together, and while I do recognize some (and not all positively), I don't recognize any outside the United States beyond TU.
- jrockway 17y agoI guess this means that the best way for Universities to advertise is by having an iconic clock tower that is in every animated television show with high-school or college-age protagonists. I think Keio and Waseda are objectively better schools (in Tokyo), but they clearly do not advertise as well as Todai. ;)
- kurtosis 17y agoYeah this is pretty funny. I work with a guy who graduated from Moscow State University - this name has a kind of strange anti-prestige to it in the U.S. I always joke around with him about it. (This is a very prestigious Russian university)
- NonEUCitizen 17y agoin Silicon Valley, IIT is a name-brand.