If someone had a choice to study in Maharishi University and Harvard? What if you wanted to wake up at 5 in the morning and do yoga before your classes? What if you did not drink alchohol and wanted to be around vegetarians and seeing meat would make you puke while at the same time you wanted to go to school in a quiet location and not in bustling cambridge? I agree the professors at Harvard might be a whole lot better but what if you there was a professor doing research at Maharishi that you were interested in working with? Now I'm trying to say that someone would choose Maharishi over Harvard just because of these reasons but these are factors that might come into considerion when making a decison on which school to attend. Yes, brand name sells and the Harvard brand is the top 5 (?) 10 (?) brand names in the world (?) I agree but why do you need to care about what other people think? I mean if you think just going to a good school will make you successfull then you are wrong. To be successfull in the long run like Ashu had mentioned you need to go a school which challenges you to learn new things and makes you a better person in the long run. I will also say that if most people thought this way the world would be a better place...and people that do take risks in life rather than choose a safe path (I'll go Harvard because a good job and a good future awaits me) rather than I'll go someother university which is more suited to my interests. So it depends what you want to get out of your education.