<p>Ske,</p>
<p>First, let’s keep in mind Harvard gas more than 10,000 faculty members, while Stanford has less than 2000 faculty members. So in terms of faculty size, Stanford is a ‘midget’ (according to you) when compared to the ‘giant’ Harvard. However, The ‘midget’ has something that the ‘giant’ can not beat.</p>
<p>Currently, Stanford has 16 Nobel prize winners in its staff. Now a question to you, how many living Nobel prize winners are still in Harvard’s current staff? You claim Harvard has more. Any official link?</p>
<p>In terms of national medal of science winnners, Stanford has won 34 in total, while Harvard has won 33. Since year 2000, Stanford has won 6, while Harvard has won 0. Which university has the momentum? The answer seems obvious.</p>
<p>Stanford has 128 faculty members in the national academy of science. Although Harvard has 167, percentage wise, Stanford is far better than Harvard.</p>
<p>Stanford medical school has less than 800 faculty members, while Harvard medical school has more than 10,000 faculty members in its medical school. Although Stanford is much smaller compared to Harvard and other top medical schools. Stanford has 54 faculty members in the prestigious institute of medicine (IOM). The only other place that has more IOM members is UCSF. Harvard has less than 110 IOM members. So on per capita basis, Stanford is far better than Harvard. In US-News medical school ranking, there is a column about the average research fund per faculty member, Stanford has been bebeating Harvard in this metric over the years. </p>
<p>According to US-News business school ranking, Stanford MBA has higher starting salary than Harvard over the years. I haven’t looked at 2009 ranking yet. But I believe it is still the case. In terms of the placement of the ph.d. program at Stanford GSB, here is a link: [Economic</a> Analysis and Policy: PhD Program: Stanford GSB](<a href=“http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/phd/fields/econ/placements.html]Economic”>http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/phd/fields/econ/placements.html)
Stanford claims that it has the best average placement rate in economics field:
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