I chose Stanford over ....

Colleges & Universities Stanford University
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<p>THES ranking is a joke.</p>

<p>Stanford is ranked higher than Yale in Academic Ranking of World Universities by Shanghi Jiao-ton University and in a global universty ranking by Newsweek.
See
[Academic</a> Ranking of World Universities - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia](<a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academic_Ranking_of_World_Universities]Academic”>Academic Ranking of World Universities - Wikipedia)
and
<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-search-selection/226863-newsweek-ranks-world-s-top-100-global-universities.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-search-selection/226863-newsweek-ranks-world-s-top-100-global-universities.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>Stanford has a much more distinguished faculty than Yale by any measure. No matter you look at the membershp in national academies: NAS, NAE, and IOM, or look at the top notched academic awards such as Nobel prize, national medal of science, Turing prize, and Wolf prize, Stanford beats Yale by a large margin.</p>