Top-ranked master's/MBA plan

[rachel83az]

[font=Söhne, ui-sans-serif, system-ui, -apple-system,]Thank you very much for your reply.  When applying to companies or universities in China, factors such as university ranking and educational quality may be used as selection criteria, which can result in students from lower-ranked University being screened out. However, I am not familiar with the situation in the United States, so I am curious if top-ranked American schools also use university ranking as one of the criteria when admitting master's students (for example, by not considering students from universities ranked outside of the QS50).[/font]

[font=Söhne, ui-sans-serif, system-ui, -apple-system,]Additionally, I am interested in learning more about UMPI and its reputation in the United States. Would it be considered within the acceptable range of top-ranked schools? Because my end goal is to apply for a master's from a top-ranked university, will Upenn LPS have more advantages over UMPI when applying for a master's degree?  Thank you again for your help and expertise.[/font]

Like I said, American graduate programs do not care about ranking as much as they care about your application package and what YOU bring to the table. Whether you go to a top 10 school or a bottom 10 school for your Bachelor's, you've still got a good chance of going to Stanford for your graduate degree. UPenn has very little advantage over UMPI when it comes to admission to a graduate school. UPenn might give you a slight advantage if you were applying for a graduate degree from UPenn itself or from a nearby university. Otherwise, the name and the ranking of the school don't matter as much as the application that you put together. 

I understand that ranking is very important in the Chinese academic and business world, but I doubt that most American university admissions people are even that aware of the QS50 list and exactly which universities are on it. Ranking simply does not have any bearing on the admissions process.

Not that it matters that much to Stanford, Harvard, Yale, etc., but UMPI is well-ranked within the USA. It simply happens to be located in a state with a very low population. The entire state of Maine only has a population of about one million. The physical UMPI campus is located in one of the least populated regions of the state. The result is that, even when well-ranked, UMPI hasn't been talked about a lot because there's just nobody to talk about it. 

https://www.umpi.edu/articles/umpi-recei...-u-s-news/


Your whole admissions package will be much, much more important than whether you go to somewhere like UPenn or UMPI for your undergraduate degree.