ChemSiddiqui Posted January 29, 2008 Share Posted January 29, 2008 Hi all, I am trying to find out which University is the most desired university to enter! Unbaised choice will be most appreciated: Oxford university Cambridge Univeristy Imperial College London Harvard University Massachusetts Institute of Technology Princeton University Yale University and Stanford University. Good day! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thedarkshade Posted January 29, 2008 Share Posted January 29, 2008 I just love Harvard. Even the name is cool! I dream one to be sitting in one of the lecturing classes! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhDP Posted January 29, 2008 Share Posted January 29, 2008 MIT and McGill, for the culture as much as the quality of education. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChemSiddiqui Posted January 29, 2008 Author Share Posted January 29, 2008 My go is Oxford, Just love everything about (although I did get rejected by them when I applied for Undergraduate Chemistry course, They don't know what they have missed, ha ha!). Imperial will be my choice next because I hope to sit in one of their lecture rooms in October this years! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thedarkshade Posted January 29, 2008 Share Posted January 29, 2008 edit: but where's Berkly anyway? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the tree Posted January 29, 2008 Share Posted January 29, 2008 It depends on what you want from it I guess, a lot of people seem to think that Oxford is better for student life even though Cambridge is an amazing place generally. MIT would be my dream uni I guess although that's largely just because it's so high profile so I've read a lot about what comes out of there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Realitycheck Posted January 29, 2008 Share Posted January 29, 2008 Definitely MIT. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Klaynos Posted January 29, 2008 Share Posted January 29, 2008 Depends what you want, my personal choice is none of the above... EXON Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CDarwin Posted January 29, 2008 Share Posted January 29, 2008 That list is a tad arbitrary, but I suppose any list would be. You should consider Duke or Vanderbilt. Get yourself some southern-fried learnin' . I voted Oxford. No particular reason other than abstract Anglophilia. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
john5746 Posted January 29, 2008 Share Posted January 29, 2008 I chose Stanford, because they have the best American football team on that list. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ecoli Posted January 29, 2008 Share Posted January 29, 2008 edit: but where's Berkly anyway? You probably mean UC Berkeley. It's in California. There is a Berkeley college on the east coast. I believe it's music school in pennsylvania. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thedarkshade Posted January 29, 2008 Share Posted January 29, 2008 Sweet enough ecoli but I was referring to "why the heck isn't it on the list?"!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sisyphus Posted January 30, 2008 Share Posted January 30, 2008 That really depends on what you're looking for. Your experience at MIT would be enormously different than your experience at Oxford, but you really can't say one is objectively better than the other. That particular list is pretty random. Those aren't "the best" for any particular goal or education philosophy, so it seems like you don't know what you want. (For example, if you're looking at hard sciences, where is Cal Tech? Etc.) They are, however, probably the biggest name-recognition schools. Is that what you're looking for? Also, those are really all large, graduate-centric universities. There are a dozen or so small liberal arts colleges that are just as prestigious (in academic circles, if not for man-on-the-street wow factor) and in my opinion offer a superior undergraduate experience. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ecoli Posted January 30, 2008 Share Posted January 30, 2008 Also, those are really all large, graduate-centric universities. There are a dozen or so small liberal arts colleges that are just as prestigious (in academic circles, if not for man-on-the-street wow factor) and in my opinion offer a superior undergraduate experience. and get more bang for your buck at that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrDNA Posted January 30, 2008 Share Posted January 30, 2008 It depends on the field and whom you are trying to impress (eg, average Joe/Jane or a Nobel Prize winner in Physics?) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChemSiddiqui Posted January 30, 2008 Author Share Posted January 30, 2008 Those aren't "the best" for any particular goal or education philosophy, so it seems like you don't know what you want. (For example, if you're looking at hard sciences, where is Cal Tech? Etc.) They are, however, probably the biggest name-recognition schools. Is that what you're looking for? Also, those are really all large, graduate-centric universities. There are a dozen or so small liberal arts colleges that are just as prestigious (in academic circles, if not for man-on-the-street wow factor) and in my opinion offer a superior undergraduate experience. No, Statistically they are THE best universities in the world, no matter what (apart from one personal opinion ofcourse!). I think the departments are more funded in the universities I have listed to be voted than other small schools which will ultimately disadvantage anyone who ends up there than the listed universities. I applied to Leeds and Manchester and UCL for that matter, but I chose Imperial and UCL because their Chemistry department is rated the best (atleast in the UK level with Oxford and Cambridge)! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Royston Posted January 30, 2008 Share Posted January 30, 2008 From that list, Princeton, plus I really like the idea behind the new Princeton Centre for Theoretical Physics... http://www.pctp.princeton.edu/pctp/ http://www.pctp.princeton.edu/pctp/PCTPintroduction.htm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thedarkshade Posted January 30, 2008 Share Posted January 30, 2008 If I was offered a scholarship by any of the above universities, hell I wouldn't say no! They're all top rated man:cool:! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CDarwin Posted January 30, 2008 Share Posted January 30, 2008 I don't know that say, Stanford, is any better than somewhere like Duke or Case Western Reserve, or even a lot of public schools. UNC Chapel Hill, for example. And those are all big research schools. You could have just as good or better an experience at a small school. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
5614 Posted January 30, 2008 Share Posted January 30, 2008 Of course that's a list of the best unis. For what subject!? Also where do you plan to work and in what aspect? I would vote Cambridge over Oxford (except in some circumstances; like if you wanted to do a pure physics degree - Cambridge would have you Natural Sciences and then specialist in physics, whereas Oxford has a straight physics course). Also if you want a scientific education but are considering banking or finance as a career then Imperial College London, with it's contacts and location is probably the best choice. In this year's Times Higher Education Supplement world league table the top ten were: 1 Harvard University (US) 2 University of Cambridge (UK) = University of Oxford (UK) = Yale University (US) 5 Imperial College London (UK) 6 Princeton University (US) 7 California Institute of Technology (US) = University of Chicago (US) 9 University College London (UK) 10 Massachusetts Institute of Technology (US) All I can say is that any of them are awesome, so you need to look at other categories. Course specifics, if you visit do you like it, location, finance(?), career prospects etc. etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thedarkshade Posted January 31, 2008 Share Posted January 31, 2008 Jonathan is purely right when mentions finance. Sometimes that's a bid barrier to go through, although every penny for any of the above unis is absolutely worth it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Psycho Posted January 31, 2008 Share Posted January 31, 2008 How do you even define desirable, it is a subjective concept, then there is the fact you haven't even said what course you are aspiring to take, which means any results to the poll are rather meaningless. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thedarkshade Posted January 31, 2008 Share Posted January 31, 2008 How do you even define desirable, it is a subjective concept, then there is the fact you haven't even said what course you are aspiring to take, which means any results to the poll are rather meaningless. I think ChemSiddqui meant this on a more generalized aspect! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChemSiddiqui Posted February 1, 2008 Author Share Posted February 1, 2008 I think ChemSiddqui meant this on a more generalized aspect! Definatley True. Its just that I wanted to know which university would people like to go to, nothing exhuastive! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eureko Posted March 18, 2008 Share Posted March 18, 2008 Why there´s only British and American Universities? Why there´s no one from other countries? I guess we are much under all these... This stinks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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