<p>Princeton’s engineering school is better than Chicago’s (oh wait, Chicago doesn’t have one). Chicago’s business school is better than Princeton’s (oh wait, Princeton doesn’t have one). Where the schools overlap, it’s more-or-less a dead heat. As for “breadth and depth,” dream on: They’re both great schools with major holes in their coverage, unlike goliaths Stanford and Harvard. (As for Berkeley, are you from the 70s or something?)</p>
<p>The mystery to me, given Princeton’s huge financial resources, is why it isn’t better than it is. A lot better. On an endowment-per-student basis, Princeton is the world’s wealthiest university, with per capita resources, I believe, five times those of UChicago. But now try to measure its edge-in-aggregate; you’ll need a micrometer for the job. What’s up with that anyway?</p>