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I've been learning Japanese for a while now but I just can't break down how the first part of this sentence is related to the second:

ここT大医学部に比べれば遥かにランクが落ちるとはいえ、僕もまた歴とした医大生であり、奇しくも脳神経外科学を専攻している。

As some of you can tell (I suppose), it's from Saya no Uta ; the part I don't get is ここT大医学部に比べれば遥かにランクが落ちるとはいえ, a comparison and then he talks about the fact that he's majoring in neurological surgery ? I don't get the relation between those two.

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    Where is "ここ"? Seems "ここ" refers to a different university than T大? What is the context?
    – Eddie Kal
    Commented Feb 26, 2021 at 19:35
  • @EddieKai I think the speaker is visiting T大. (What I don't get is 専攻. An 医学生 doesn't have specialty yet. Maybe the speaker is a grad student, or maybe the author is not good at medical education in Japan...)
    – naruto
    Commented Apr 22, 2021 at 3:57

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とはいえ means even though, or despite the fact that

The speaker's university rank is a lot lower than T大医学部. But they are still a med student and majoring at neurosurgery at that. So they are implying that they should also be taken seriously, or something like that.

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