<p>I have heard Chicago is a great school for sciences, and research. I have also heard it is up there with MIT as far as hard classes and sciences go. Can you inform me of U of Chicago’s qualities?</p>
<p>Thank you very much!!!</p>
<p>ECON, sociology, anthropology, political science, math, chem/bio/phys, English
Amongst many others, but those are the ones that come to my mind at present.</p>
<p>Econ, Archaeology (I might be crediting this to Indiana Jones), and the core.</p>
<p>sticking a dagger through fun.</p>
<p>Undergrad: Economics, sociology, physics, chemistry, political science. </p>
<p>Grad/Professional school: Business, Medicine, Law, Economics, Physics, Chemistry.</p>
<p>No, OHKID, you’re correct. The University is likely the world’s largest center for research in archaeology and ancient languages. </p>
<p>Evidence: classes in Sumerian, Persian, Ancient Egyptian, etc.
Evidence: Near East Institute</p>
<p>Chicago has an exceptional reputation for language instruction pretty much across the board. Linguistics is also very strong.</p>
<p>Definitely econ, physic, and math. I don’t know about the humanities part, so I won’t say.</p>
<p>Chicago’s one of the best universities for A LOT of things. Everyone knows that it’s amazing for econ, but it’s amazing for a lot of other things too such as: </p>
<p>(According to the NRC): </p>
<h1>10 for art history</h1>
<h1>7 for classics</h1>
<h1>10 for English</h1>
<h1>6 for linguistics</h1>
<h1>1 for religion</h1>
<h1>1 for ecology/evolution/behavioral bio</h1>
<h1>5 for astrophysics</h1>
<h1>9 for chemistry</h1>
<h1>7 for geosciences</h1>
<h1>5 for math</h1>
<h1>7 for physics</h1>
<h1>4 for statistics</h1>
<h1>1 for anthropology</h1>
<h1>1 for econ</h1>
<h1>8 for history</h1>
<h1>6 for political science</h1>
<h1>1 for sociology</h1>
<h1>2 for music</h1>
<p>Chicago is not particularly known for archaeology. It certainly had its heyday, but it has sponsored excavations only sporadically since the 1930s, with Chicago House being the exception. In the US, it’s overshadowed by Michigan, Penn, and Berkeley. Of course, it remains excellent for philology.</p>
<p>The interdisciplinary majors at Chicago (Fundamentals and Laws/Letters/Society) are very good, and the Gender Studies program is excellent.</p>
<p>thank you. Would you consider the science department more rigorous than those of Ivy’s? How good is it compared to MIT? I am particularly interested in sciences.</p>
<p>Thank you again.</p>
<p>It depends on what you’re looking for. I can’t speak for any other subjects, but as for math, I think Chicago quite easily trumps MIT in pure math, and MIT quite easily trumps Chicago in applied math.</p>
<p>For instance, in MIT’s first semester graduate analysis course, they cover the first 3 chapters of Walter Rudin’s Real and Complex Analysis. At Chicago, they cover the first 9 chapters in addition to measure-theoretical probability theory.</p>
<p>Sounds very rigorous! I can’t wait till I apply!!</p>
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<p>You’re kidding, right? Tell Alan Kolata, who was heavily involved in the excavation of Tiwanaku and currently “leads ongoing interdisciplinary research projects studying human-environment interactions over the past 3000 years in the Lake Titicaca basin of Bolivia, on the north coast of Peru and most recently in Thailand and Cambodia.” including Angor Wat.</p>
<p>newmassdad, one prominent archaeologist does not a program make, although admittedly Chicago has a couple. I strongly disagree with IB’s odd statement that Chicago is not known for archaeology, but I agree with him/her that it is not tops in the field. I would put them as follows:</p>
<p>Top 3: Arizona, Berkeley, Michigan
Other top 5: Penn, UCLA
6-10: ASU, Brown, BU, Columbia, NYU
11-15: Chicago, Cornell, Harvard, Stanford, UNC, and/or Texas A&M</p>
<p>Of course, the strength in one’s subfield is in reality what’s most important. In that case, TAMU would go to the top for underwater archaeology, UCLA would go to the top for East Asian archaeology, etc.</p>
<p>Archie :)</p>
<p>If being lumped with Harvard and Stanford is the best Chicago can do for this, I’ll settle for that. </p>
<p>But you might note that others disagree. See this thread: <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-search-selection/644037-top-public-anthropology-archaeology-programs.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-search-selection/644037-top-public-anthropology-archaeology-programs.html</a></p>
<p>You might also note that archaeology is not a pure play at Chicago, and the same is true at many other places. It is part of Anthro, which is very well thought of at Chicago.</p>
<p>Gig 'em. Sorry my parents went to TAMU. Gotta represent.</p>