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<p>Chicago is not especially huge. It has ~5100 undergraduates. Compare that to Temple’s 28,000. Moreover, Chicago’s average class sizes are quite small. Chicago has a smaller student:faculty ratio, and a higher percentage of classes with less than 20 students, than Middlebury does.</p>
<p>I don’t know what evidence anyone might have that Chicago professors have no interest in teaching undergraduates. Chicago does have incentives for high-quality undergraduate teaching ([Llewellyn</a> John and Harriet Manchester Quantrell Awards for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching | The University of Chicago](<a href=“Page Not Found | University of Chicago”>Llewellyn John and Harriet Manchester Quantrell Awards for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching | University of Chicago)). Many of its most distinguished professors have taught undergraduates.</p>
<p>The web pages for each department includes a “faculty” section. You can visit them to see the many distinguished professors who occupy named positions (or “chairs”) as well as appointments to “the College.” For example, in the Economics department ([University</a> of Chicago Department of Economics | Faculty & Staff](<a href=“http://economics.uchicago.edu/facstaff/]University”>http://economics.uchicago.edu/facstaff/)), on page two of the faculty pages is Steven Levitt. He is “The William B. Ogden Distinguished Service Professor in Economics and the College”. He also is co-author of Freakanomics, the recipient of the Johns Bates Clark Medal (highest distinction in the field, next to the Nobel) … and a 1998 recipient of the Quantrell award for excellence in undergraduate teaching.</p>