The notion that research equals prestige is hardwired into their psyche and therefore the whole marketplace.
The most research-intensive universities are on top (the Russell Group in the UK, Group of Eight in Australia), with successive universities positioned below them at decreasing levels of research and prestige.
For years, there has been talk about elevating one or two colleges of the City University of New York to flagship campuses with research capacity, prestige and drawing power like that of the Berkeley campus of the University of California.
Male physicians, on the other side, are more often influenced by research and prestige [ 34].
Moreover, the career aspiration at study entry [ 5, 8] and personal priorities regarding interest in research, income, prestige, work-life-balance, a varied scope of practice and patients, and long-term doctor-patient relationships exert a significant impact on the career choice [ 5, 8, 10- 12].
But they do care where they did them – and the CoL and BPP, novices in the field of undergraduate education with little to no research capability, lack prestige in this area.
The 30-member commission is calling for the state to create its own low-cost student loan program, to clear up a $5 billion backlog in maintenance and construction at its public universities and to hire 2,000 new full-time professors — including 250 academic stars who could bring in research dollars and prestige.
The government has said that it will shield medical research and some prestige projects, such as the Diamond Light Source in Oxfordshire and the proposed UK Centre for Medical Research and Innovation in London.
Colleges and universities are assessed by various criteria such as staffing, buildings, libraries, laboratories, research, funds, and prestige in specified disciplines to determine whether they are "qualified" to be included as top institutions (Huang 2008).
Respondents also considered it to be associated with good or very good research opportunities (75%), prestige (68%) and the ability to make a significant difference to patients' lives (64%).
