<p>…in response to first 2 paragraphs… yea I haven’t figured out how to quote on here yet. Don’t tell me; if I start posting more often, I’ll figure it out.</p>
<p>Not to be rude, but if you are trying to say academia and research/publishing don’t go hand in hand, you really don’t know much about academia and should do more research before posting about it. And yes some majors here require research in order to graduate.
And you shouldn’t comment about where which funds are going to. Sure, there are fellowships here for sponsoring undergrad research that comes from the endowment, but you are missing the point. You can do research with any Hopkins department across the university for credit>> which means it doesn’t matter who is being paid and specifically where funding is coming from. You have access to a TREMENDOUS amount of research going on here, as you are not limited to undergrad research. Also, take myself as an example. Im doing research with Hopkins med this summer… im getting paid… and its NOT by the undergrad. Its by funding from the NIH… .yep im getting a piece of the 1.5 billion Hopkins rakes in to do research because that’s where my PI’s grant comes from. Depending on how long I work with this lab, I could get published from my work on special projects. That counts as undergrads doing research in your opinion, right? </p>
<p>And about Caltech being way better than Hopkins in bio… are you serious? Usnews ranks Caltech 1 spot higher than Hopkins (4.6 vs 4.7 rating)… times higher education world ranking puts Hopkins at 3rd… and Caltech as 16th in life sciences and biomedicine. So with such a great discrepancy I’ll need you to provide sources. Jk im not concerned because we are comparing duke to jhu. The funding plus department rankings is my argument for jh having a better bio dept than duke. I never said funding alone makes jh better but it is a big difference that separates the institutions, imo.</p>
<p>I lolled at “academically smarter.” What in the world? I hope you were trying to say stronger academic reputation as opposed to “smarter professors” haha. Curriculum has nothing to do with anything. All schools have great and terrible profs and that has little to nothing to do with where they got their degree or even how “smart” they are. Many nobel winning profs suck at communicating their brilliance to ugrads. Some profs have a tough time “dumbing it down” lol. PS: if you want to see general academic reputation by peer evaluation, check out this link : [World’s</a> Best Colleges: Top 400 - US News and World Report](<a href=“http://www.usnews.com/articles/education/worlds-best-colleges/2009/06/18/worlds-best-colleges-top-400.html]World’s”>http://www.usnews.com/articles/education/worlds-best-colleges/2009/06/18/worlds-best-colleges-top-400.html) jhop/caltech have some of the best reps in the world</p>
<p>….in response to 3rd and 4th paragraph
Ha, did you read what you quoted? Sure you can cross of public health and sais if I can cross of law and divinity, as the other poster mentioned lol. (NOTE: the other poster said duke Law, Divinity, and Business gave it the edge… hopkins does not have law or divinity… so I thought it was fair game to mention sais and public health as renown institutions under jhu…how is that not fair? to add insult to injury I added the top 5 thing haha but that’s just to say if anything jh is more renowned in these areas than duke is in the areas it has that jhu lack.
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again, you missed my point. If this is because of my lack of clarity, then im sorry. The OTHER POSTER counted professional as different from graduate… I was saying that doing that doesn’t make sense because you get a grad degree from professional schools…so no you cant leave out medicine 
and the med school only counts once so I don’t follow your 2/3 comment.</p>
<p>… in response to last 2 paragraphs.
haha saying both schools are tied is no fun, but I agree with you that rankings suck. I don’t like using them, but there’s no other objective measure out there that I know of… both schools do indeed have different strengths but overall they are both great institutions and I’m going to leave it at that.</p>