<p>On the Princeton board, PrincetonGrad2000 has an analysis of the new USNWR rankings of graduate programs. <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/princeton-university/908952-2010-usnwr-graduate-school-rankings-news-item.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/princeton-university/908952-2010-usnwr-graduate-school-rankings-news-item.html</a>. It provides a pretty good snapshot of what the elite US universities really are, or at least the comprehensive ones (i.e., not MIT or Caltech). </p>
<p>Chicago and Michigan show very well there. One of his charts shows the average program score, on a 5-point scale, of every university whose programs ranked within the top 50 in all 12 of the core academic areas surveyed. Chicago, Columbia, and Michigan are tied, right behind HYPS and Berkeley. Chicago and Michigan are also tied for number of top-10 programs, and number of top-5 programs. That gives you a good sense of the academic equivalence between the two universities.</p>