[pawelwentpawel]

I was wondering how the good universities from across the Europe (particulary from UK) are being perceived in US. Places like Edinburgh University for example, even though they are very good, are way lower in ranks than the american schools.

The same funny thing happens with the technology intitutes from eastern europe. Some technical degrees are horribly demanding and produce some great engineers, but still are very low in the world-wide ranks.

[auganov]

Same rules apply to any university that is not a name brand.

It doesn't matter if it's Edinburgh University, University of Moscow or anything else if you have a degree from a school like that almost nobody cares about your degree.

Every university in the world produces some amazing people from time to time, but their awesomeness is always backed by something else than their degree. What those east European universities are good at is producing TopCoder winners and that's the 'credential' that gets those people jobs at Google.