<p>A large component of faculty resources is faculty compensation. Here’s the ranking by average salary (excluding med school faculty) among AAU member institutions. So you can compare this to USN ranking:</p>
<p>Stanford
Harvard
Cal. Tech.
Pennsylvania
Columbia
Princeton
Northwestern
Chicago
M.I.T.
Yale
Duke
U.C.L.A.
U.C. Berkeley
Cornell
Emory
Washington U.
Rice
N.Y.U.
Georgia Tech
Carnegie-Mellon
Brown
U.S.C.
U.C.S.D.
North Carolina
Rutgers
U.C. Santa Barbara
Vanderbilt
Virginia
Michigan
Ohio State</p>