I'm always confused as to which schools are more prestigious:?
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University of Michigan is considered more prestigious than Michigan State.  \n\nUniversity of Pennsylvania (Ivy League, not a state school) is considered more prestigious than Penn State.
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Not necessarily the best, but definitely a good school!  You should go for it!
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This question is much easier if you consider the top schools in a certain category or in a certain field. There is a semi-defined grouping of first-, second- and third-tier schools that is generally agreed upon, but even US News & World Report has a different top school every year.
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Depends on what area you are looking at. Different universities have different strengths.
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Depends on what you want to major in.. all schools have departments considered better than other departments at the same school.\n\nfor instance.. my uni has top math, engineering, and psychology departments... while things like anthropology, sociology, and chemistry arent nationally recongnized.\n\nso someone might say school X is good.. but it might be for different reasons than you expect.\n\nyou may want to locate people attending school at the places you're interested in going... in the major(s) you're interested in and see their opinion... \n\nbest of luck.\n\n:c )
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New England and New York have got most of the ivies and as \nHarvard University and Yale University they are the best in that area , no other names strike me.\n\nThey are top in Business management , medical (Harvard) , Law(yale) , MIT is top in engineering , educatinal sciences(columbia) they have most of it covered. Then other ivies like brown and dartmouth are also pretty  good.\n\nCheck out the following link also if you want to , it may help : http://www.usnews.com/usnews/edu/grad/rankings/rankindex_brief.php
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Yes, according to rankings, and if you can get in - it is highly competitive. Also great schools are CIT, RIT, Georgia Tech, Virginia Tech. (In that order, in my opinion.)
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i am not exactly sure but there is probally some kind of formula.  Like class size, test scores, incidents stuff like that.  Also the amount of graduates that get jobs there is probbally a myriad of things that go into it.  A schools are probbally more Ivy league also   ie more money and prestigous
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University of Florida,Gainsville.Its got a great reputation.U r lucky if u got admission there.
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it depends where you are from. but the common notion is ivy-leagues and oxford or cambridge.  \n\nalthough they have academically high standards recognized around the world, think of other factors such as distance and cost. it also depends on your course because the money you spent on these universities might not payback in the future (ex. fine arts)... \n\nthere are also other prestigious universities in Asia. there are many developing asian countries such as japan, south korea, china, singapore, philippines that have very good academic standards.
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High quality education is available though different types of universities.  "Ivy League" are just expensive schools that have a history in America, JUST AS CAMBRIDGE AND OXFORD do in the UK.  Why does the UK have Cambridge and Oxford?  Same reason.  They're still more prestigious than some other schools, but that doesn't mean there aren't more outstanding universities outside the Ivy League system.  \n\nStandardized testing is generally just in high school, as a way for colleges to admit more qualified applicants.  Also...even schools not in the "Ivy League" consistently rank higher than many universities elsewhere in the world, and even many of the universities in America that we do not consider to be the greatest, rank much higher than other worldly institutions.  For example, Berkeley, or UC Berkeley as we know it, is a part of a system of 8 other schools apart of the University of California, which are not Ivy League schools, but still prestigious.
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Yale is well known for its law school, but also has architecture, art, drama, engineering, manegement, medicine, music, nursing, and public health.\nStanford has earth sciences, engineering, humanitites and science, business, law, education, and medicine.
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Ivy League=Expensive, exclusive school. Those who attend have lots of money and/or lots of smarts! So the students of these schools are either smart, or lucky enough to have been born rich and to have an alumnus for a parent.
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i have heard that it is MIT. that could be a rumor though.
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I'd make Harvard my 1st choice. Yale, Princeton, and Stanford would be close runners-up, in that order.
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There really is no way for anyone other than you to define your "best" university.\n\nYou can find ranking information on-line from a variety of sources.  I would encourage you, however, to contact the universities you are interested in, ask for an admissions packet, and evaluate their offerings independently.  Sometimes the "best" university isn't always the best fit for your specific needs.\n\nBest of luck!
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Wow, that's a broad question. You can't really compare schools in different countries.  The economy and economic culture in every country is different, so each school is probably geared towards the country its located in.  The best in the U.S. is UPenn's Wharton school of business, but that's just the rankings.  I'm not a student there