New President Announced

grreat
Fri, 05 Mar 2021 21:09:55 +0000

That’s interesting because I often think of Berkeley as being the one great university in the country (in the world?) that’s almost at the top at nearly everything. If you look at graduate research rankings, in almost every field (engineering, history, chemistry, English, political science, computer science, you name it) Berkeley is almost at the very top, and I don’t think any other university compares (HYP are weaker in engineering; Stanford is lacking in some of the humanities, etc.). Of course, there are plenty of schools that might be better in one specific subject than Berkeley, but I struggle to think of a school that has such comprehensive excellence. Anyway, the point is that perhaps you’re right WRHarper that the new president, given his Berkeley background, might want to strengthen UChicago across the board – I think that would be an amazing step to take if possible, to try to make UChicago, like Berkeley, at the pinnacle of research in each and every field.