<p>I don’t think it’s worth my time to argue, since the grass will always be greener on the other side of the fence for you. </p>
<p>Where was the praise when the University renovated Searle? Where was the laudation when UChicago built KCBD? How about GCIS? How about the new William Eckhardt Center for Engineering? I have visited quite a few universities, and I have never seen a university that is expanding at the same rate as UChicago. I also have never seen another institution that has completed this many major construction projects in such a short amount of time.</p>
<p>How come I didn’t see any large-scale renovations and construction projects going on at Penn when I visited a year ago?</p>
<p>You cannot compare these schools. They are very different. Does UChicago have a vet school? Does the University have an engineering school as of now? Does the University focus on basic, theoretical research or applied research? Most importantly, what are the sizes of UChicago’s various science departments in comparison to other schools’? Also, how many research centers/bodies/organizations there actually are in a given university?</p>
<p>It should be very clear that total research spending by itself does not tell us anything about the strength of an institution in science.</p>