johnnyx9 wrote:
IMJIMMY - We're not disagreeing that NYU is ranked higher than BU and OSU.
But BU is not a "regional school." It's one of the best known school's outside of the US, I have family in Greece and Spain and Ireland and when my brother went to BU all of my cousins were like, "Oh wow, BU." It's all about the research that comes out of there, pick up Time magazine or Newsweek or the Wall Street Journal and there's bound to be an article that quotes some research from BU.
Also the liberal arts there have some great professors like Elie Wiesel (famous holocaust survivor, author), Robert Pinsky (US poet laureate), Saul Bellow (famous author), and on and on, so that's another reason people outside the region have such a high regard for the school (while in the region people are just like, "That's that school across the river from Harvard and MIT right?"
Dude,
Interantional rep of Bu...I have no idea. But I can tell you that to those of us from out West it is just another school, regardless of how close it is to harvard. Interesting views that your family has though.