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Alas, the chemistry department is not host to a legislative body. Perhaps the political science department is. </p>
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I don’t give a fig for any of the three, but the last NRC rankings put Berkeley behind MIT (average of nonzero ranks) or Stanford (average of all 41 ranks). Of course, we’ll see how well each does when the new ranking comes out next spring. Things may have changed a lot.</p>