<p>The data supporting the survey results cited in post #7 are 15 years old. (The 1995 report utilizes data from a 1993 survey.) There is no accurate method to compare Chicago to Northwestern other than, maybe, in the humanities/liberal arts, as the two universities offer very different areas of study. For example, Chicago does not offer an SESP equivalent, engineering or have a school of communications or a journalism school. And I don’t think that Chicago has a music school either. Thus, only one of the six schools at Northwestern has a counterpart at Chicago–the Weinberg College of Arts & Sciences, and using the NRC survey based on data from 15 years ago is laughable at best and somewhat pathetic. The NRC rankings are widely viewed as irrelevant and very,very outdated.</p>