<p>Nobel prizes:
University of Chicago: 87 (11% of all winners)
Columbia: 86 (11% of all winners)
MIT: 78 (9% of all winners)
Stanford: 55 </p>
<p>And let us not forget that UChicago and Columbia have a better core curriculum than Stanford and MIT. I don’t mean to suggest that what you actually learn in college should matter, of course. We know it’s all about prestige not substance, if you read CC.</p>
<p>Or the culture wars of the 90s in which Stanford became synonymous with shallow, political correctness. Don’t read Plato because he’s a dead white male, etc…</p>
<p>Believe me, UChicago will benefit from this ranking more than anyone and as its admit rate plummets the critics will have little to say–which is why they are so defensive. They feel threatened.</p>
<p>Yes, the rankings are just pr. I don’t need them to tell me UChicago has the best undergraduate education in the country. Still, they are helping UChicago. For instance, fairly recently UChicago has recruited faculty from Harvard, Yale, Stanford, Berkeley, and Columbia. Since the faculty is the basis for the the quality of your university, this bodes well for UChicago</p>