Curious what the CC community thinks about undergrad prestige vs grad prestige vs combined prestige of both the undergrad and grad degrees. Let's consider the following examples. Let's rank the following combinations of undergrad and grad pedigree based on perceived level of overall prestige. For the sake of simplicity, let's use just an MBA degree as the grad degree.
IN RANDOM ORDER BELOW - please rank the following based on OVERALL PRESTIGE if you saw the following combinations of undergrad / grad credentials (and nothing else).
1) Harvard BA / Stanford GSB MBA
2) Stanford BA / Duke Fuqua MBA
3) Duke BA / Stanford GSB MBA
4) Northwestern BA / Wharton MBA
5) Penn BA (non Wharton) / Northwestern Kellogg MBA
6) Columbia BA / Columbia MBA
7) UChicago BA / Columbia MBA
8) UVA BA / Harvard MBA
9) Harvard BA / UVA Darden MBA
10) UMichigan BA / UChicago Booth MBA
11) Cornell BA / Yale SOM MBA
12) Yale BA / Cornell Johnson MBA
13) Columbia BA / MIT Sloan
14) MIT BS / UChicago Booth
15) UChicago BA / MIT Sloan MBA
16) Dartmouth BA / Columbia MBA
17) Columbia BA / Northwestern Kellogg MBA
18) Columbia BA / Wharton MBA
19) Northwestern BA / UChicago Booth MBA
20) Princeton BA / HBS MBA
21) Duke BA / Columbia MBA
22) Duke BA / UChicago Booth MBA
23) UChicago BA / Duke Fuqua MBA
24) Northwestern BA / HBS MBA
25) Harvard BA / Northwestern Kellogg MBA
26) Stanford BA / NYU Stern MBA
27) Harvard BA / Dartmouth Tuck MBA
28) Northwestern BA / Columbia MBA
29) UMichigan BA / HBS MBA
30) Penn BA (non Wharton) / UChicago MBA
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