UMich vs. UC Berkeley?

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Alex, that’s because Chicago doesn’t have an Engineering school and Penn/Duke don’t have comprehensive engineering departments like Michigan. How can you expect a school that doesn’t offer ChemE, Nuclear Engineering, Aerospace, Industrial/Operations Engineering, Naval Architecture/Marine Engineering like Duke to be competitive with Michigan in NAE membership?</p>

<p>I don’t make fun of Princeton because it doesn’t have a Business, Law, and Medical school. Not every school aspires to be a jack of all trades like Michigan. ;)</p>

<p>Penn has more NAS members than Michigan and Duke is the only school on your list of “peers” that trails Michigan by a bit (24 vs. 22).</p>

<p>National Academy of Sciences Membership
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<p>University of California, Berkeley:127



Columbia U.: 48
University of Washington: 47
University of Chicago: 40
University of California, Los Angeles: 40
University of Wisconsin: 37
Cornell: 35
University of Pennsylvania: 28
Johns Hopkins University: 26
University of Michigan-Ann Arbor: 24
Duke U.: 22
Northwestern U.: 20
UT Austin: 17
UNC Chapel Hill: 11
Brown U.: 9
Vanderbilt U.: 7
University of Virginia: 3
Dartmouth U.: 2</p>