How Many "Great" Schools In the Country?

<p>Harvard/Stanford/Chicago/Yale/MIT/Columbia/Berkeley/Princeton</p>

<p>Everyone should read The Great American University by J. Cole (provost of Columbia). Interestingly, he wrote, “I hold the University of Chicago in such high regard because it offers us a reference point for how a value system associated with greatness…can pervade an institution in ways that advance free inquiry and open discourse."</p>