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.
International brand name recognition: Harvard
Prestige: Harvard
Course: Harvard for math
Culture: Harvard
Location: Harvard
How is this even a question?
What do you mean?
Harvard
Yale, Princeton, Stanford, MIT and Wharton > Cambridge.
Why do you think so?
You know this questions has been posted countless times in one form or another over the past few months, right?
Really do you remember their titles?
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.
Anywhere in the world tbh, and I will study Economics or Maths
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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