2018: A University is NOT a University unless it has professional schools (see "Princeton")

College Search & Selection
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In this day and age, can a university call itself a university – truly – if it doesn’t serve the greater good by serving justice (a law school), improving and extending life (a medical school), and building new sources of income and wealth (a business school)? All of the following universities have this and do this and are considered great universities. Why should Princeton even be considered in this list?

Harvard: Medical School, Law School, Business School
Stanford: Medical School, Law School, Business School
Yale: Medical School, Law School, Business School
Duke: Medical School, Law School, Business School
Columbia: Medical School, Law School, Business School
Penn: Medical School, Law School. Business School
Brown: Medical School
Dartmouth: Medical School. Business School
Cornell: Medical School, Law School, Business School
MIT: Business School
Berkeley: Medical School (UCSF), Law School (Hastings), Business School (Haas)
Chicago: Law School, Business School
Vanderbilt: Medical School, Law School, Business School
USC: Medical School, Law School, Business School

Princeton: nope, not here
Wellesley, nope, not here
Amherst, nope, not here
Williams, nope, not here
Middlebury, nope, not here
Colby: nope, not here

Kinda makes my point. Crickets for Princeton. It’s meretricious, pure and simple. Should be classified with “Best Regional Universities,” if USNWR would actually think about what constitutes TODAY’S university.

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I always found Stanford to be less than a real university because it has no dental school.

Berkeley has an on-campus law school - which in the past was referred to as Boalt Hall. UC Hastings is a stand-alone UC across the Bay in San Francisco, like UCSF.

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Ok

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From Wikipedia:

Princeton provides undergraduate and graduate instruction in the humanities, social sciences, natural sciences and engineering.[14] It offers professional degrees through the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, the School of Engineering and Applied Science, the School of Architecture and the Bendheim Center for Finance.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princeton_University

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Looks like this a long simmering beef of yours:

http://talk.qa.collegeconfidential.com/princeton-university/1848898-why-doesnt-princeton-have-any-professional-schools.html#latest

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MIT??? Is it University of Massachusetts Institute of Technology or Massachusetts Institute of Technology University?

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Good grief…
ANY institution of higher learning that offers students undergraduate degrees AND GRADUATE degrees- be they in a Masters or Phd / or Doctorate program, are considered UNIVERSITIES.
this really in NOT hard to understand.
:open_mouth:

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It’s post graduate education not “professional schools” that define universities. But who cares? Not me, but I guess OP. USNWR is not the arbiter of the definition.

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Any university that has a high emphasis on research is a drumroll research university.

By your logic, Caltech isn’t a university (even though it is one of the top research U’s in STEM).

BTW, Dartmouth is actually the outlier, being more of an overgrown LAC with professional schools. In research rankings, it’s nowhere to be found.

Finally, many regional U’s actually do have professional schools like business, law, etc. What they don’t have are high-powered PhD programs.

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Go U Northwestern

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Ha ha ha ha. This is so funny. The last thing any Dartmouth grad wants (except, it appears, for the current inept president) is for Dartmouth to be a university. It is a college – and very proud of that fact.

Oh … and UCSF Medical School is not affiliated with Berkeley any more than Hastings Law is. Sheesh. Get your facts straight before you start a silly rant.

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MODERATOR’S NOTE: Closing thread since OP started similar one in the past.