Which range of schools do YOU consider "elite"? HYPSM? Top 20?

<p>Duke v. Stanford - Is it even close?
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<p>Quality of faculty in Sciences and Math Fields</p>

<p>Here we have Stanford ranked third with 124 faculty that have been selected to membership in the prestigious National Academy of Sciences. Lowly Duke, on the other hand barely has only 18 faculty as members, 7 times less than Stanford. Duke is ranked 23rd in the following table.</p>

<p># National Academy of Science members, school:
151 , Harvard
130 , Berkeley
124 , Stanford
113 , MIT
73 , Princeton
72 , CalTech
65 , UCSD
58 , Yale
45 , Univ. of Washington
44 , Columbia
41 , Wisconsin
39 , Cornell
39 , Univ. of Chicago
34 , UCLA
28 , U Penn
28 , NYU
28 , UCSB
26 , Illinois
23 , U Michigan
22 , UC Irvine
21 , Johns Hopkins
20 , UC Davis
18 , Duke</p>

<p>The quality of Duke’s faculty in the field of Sciences and Math is so far behind from that of Stanford’s that it hardly needs to be discussed further.</p>

<p>next up, the quality of Engineering faculty</p>