<p>Intriguing points…but it’s also interesting to compare Columbia to Yale. Yale School of Medicine and Columbia P&S are very comparable schools and are both usually round out the top 10 in USNWR (although I think their medical school rankings are even more specious than their college rankings), and Yale’s business school doesn’t even break the top 10. So, really, the only professional school for which Yale is seen as truly the top is law. And yet because of the popular associations with the Yale name/brand, many laypeople may well automatically assume that Yale competes with Harvard across the board–and, on the other hand, in the absence of further information, that it probably trumps Columbia.</p>