<p>german_car’s comments are irrelevant. No university, not even Stanford nor Harvard, has universally stellar departments. What matters in overall reputation is the relative ranking of departments: Penn has more top-ranked departments than almost every university except for a handful: Harvard, Stanford, Berkeley… that may be it. It comes very close to Columbia and Yale, although they may come out ahead. I’m not sure. If I weren’t tired, I would compare HYPSM, Penn and Columbia across the most popular schools/departments: psychology, English, history, neuroscience, economics and bio.</p>
<p>What was the original argument? Yes, Wharton’s supremacy is unchecked whereas CAS is still “only” elite in the most popular areas, though not all of them. It’s true. In 10 years, when the capital campaign’s fruits have been harvested and our endowment matches MIT/Princeton, we can re-assess.</p>