Harvard or Cambridge?

If you had undergraduate offers from both Harvard and Cambridge, which would you choose? 

Primarily accounting for global brand recognition, prestige, course, culture, and location.

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International brand name recognition: Harvard

Prestige: Harvard

Course: Cambridge for maths

Culture: Cambridge for the tutorial system

Location: Harvard

 

The tutorial system belongs to Oxford. Cambridge’s version is called the supervision system, but most people don’t even know about it.

Every time I see a Cambridge Union clip on social media everybody mistakenly thinks it’s the Oxford Union instead.

Point being, Cambridge’s prestige comes almost entirely from its affiliation with Oxford. Cambridge isn’t even the most prestigious or famous university in the UK.

 
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International brand name recognition: Harvard

Prestige: Harvard

Course: Harvard for math

Culture: Harvard

Location: Harvard

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OP, where do you want to be long-term, what do you want to study?

I would probably go to Cambridge to study maths and get a job in London, while for the US its always Harvard, without a question.

 

Why would someone apply to and go to Cambridge when Oxford is so much more prestigious than Cambridge?

If someone can get into Cambridge they should be able to get into Oxford as well. You might as well just go to the one with the greater brand strength (Oxford).

 

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