<p>Here is the analysis based on the number of faculty members selected into the prestigious National Academy of Science since year 2000 for HYPSM + Berkeley. You’ll see HARVARD is still HARVARD. Stanford is not far behind. </p>
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<h1>NAS membership selected since year 2000</h1>
<p>Institution/2008/2007/2006/2005/2004/2003/2002/2001/2000/total
Harvard/7/5/6/5/5/3/9/7/1/48</p>
<p>Stanford/5/5/1/5/4/7/7/2/6/42
Berkeley/3/1/5/3/6/4/5/6/5/38</p>
<p>MIT/7/5/3/2/4/4/2/1/2/30
Princeton/3/5/2/7/2/1/1/4/2/27</p>
<p>Yale/1/1/1/2/0/1/1/5/2/13</p>
<p>Apparently, Yale has lost the battle in recruiting super star professors when compared to HSBMP plus Caltech. It is a big challenge for Yale to stop the trend of going down hill. Yale is the 2nd richest university in the world. But where did the money go? Apparently, money can not buy everything.</p>