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Duke vs NYU: Which is more prestigious OVERALL (not just for MBA)?

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Duke vs NYU: Which is more prestigious OVERALL (not just for MBA)? [#permalink]
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Bottom line, the business school end they undergraduate college are separate entities. It helps to have a well recognized name when you’re doing your laundry at the laundromat but probably not so much when you’re trying to recruit in the business world among people who are well aware of the pecking order in the business school rankings and selectivity of certain programs.

My 2 cents. Would love to hear a different opinion :-)

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Thanks for that thoughtful reply!

I agree! I was thinking of choosing based on the overall university brand since I believe Duke Fuqua and NYU Stern are peer schools in most aspects such as rankings and selectivity. While NYU Stern always has a higher GMAT average, it usually has a similar acceptance rate and slightly lower yield rate compared to Duke Fuqua in recent years. I know NYU Stern's acceptance rate was much lower around 2012 while Duke Fuqua's was around the same as of now. I believe Duke Fuqua has a really slight edge when it comes to peer and recruiter assessments taken as part of the US News MBA rankings.

bb I'd love to hear more details regarding the general reputation of those MBA programs (Duke Fuqua vs NYU Stern) and the wider universities (Duke vs NYU). Thanks!
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Re: Duke vs NYU: Which is more prestigious OVERALL (not just for MBA)? [#permalink]
I personally think that overall university brand can make a slight different when picking between peer schools.

For example, Yale SOM, founded in 1976 (i.e. the youngest business school among top 15 now), really managed to boost their rankings over the last few years from top 25 to top 10. I believe it's mainly due to the help of the wider university in terms of funding and overall reputation. I know that might be bit of an extreme case.
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Duke is a more prestigious school. The one exception may be that NYU Stern may be more desirable amongst the finance types.

Otherwise, just look at the rankings. Duke is consistently considered a top tier school on par with the Ivy League and comparable institutions (Stanford, UChicago, MIT etc.) while NYU is a step or two below. All the slices and dices you have laid out are no doubt interesting for comparable purposes, but your question is about prestige overall which is kind the opposite of looking at each school category by category. Prestige is derived from an overall opinion, reputation, viewpoint, etc.

I am also not sure what you mean by future/potential. Not all that much is changing about either school, certainly not enough to drastically shift their prestige factor. It would take a "revolutionary" type of event or scandal of epic proportions to have that type of effect. These reputations and positions are generally set in stone.
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Yale's b-school ranking went up over the past 10 yrs because they started running the school correctly, nothing to do w/ the parent university.

Both Duke / NYU are great schools, but I would give the pedigree edge to Duke. NYU still suffers from the 'couldn't get into Columbia' overhang.

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When it's specific to Stern I'd say it's a lot closer. This year, Stern had a lower admit rate than Duke (5.6 vs 5.8%) and a higher median SAT (1550 at Stern, but most didn't apply this year with a score for Duke). Perhaps it's a valid comparison as Duke doesn't have an undergraduate business program.

Peer programs at the MBA level.
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