The universities with most distinguished faculty

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<p>The Top 4 giants are Harvard, Stanford, MIT, and Berkeley. Based on the number of current faculty members in each university who have been selected to the national academies, these 4 universites dominately have the most distinguished faculty members. </p>

<p>The national academies consist of The National Academy of Sciences (NAS), National Academy of Engineering (NAE), and Institute of Medicine (IOM).</p>

<p>The National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, and Institute of Medicine are private, non-profit institutions that provide science, technology, and health policy advice under a congressional charter. New members are elected by current members of each institution. </p>

<p>Election to membership in the National Academy of Sciences is considered one of the highest honors that can be accorded a U.S. scientist or engineer. Academy membership recognizes those who have made distinguished and continuing achievements in original research.</p>

<p>Election to the National Academy of Engineering is among the highest professional distinctions accorded an engineer. Academy membership honors those who have made "important contributions to engineering theory and practice, including significant contributions to the literature of engineering theory and practice," and those who have demonstrated "unusual accomplishment in the pioneering of new and developing fields of technology."</p>

<p>Election to the Institute of Medicine is one of the most distinguished achievements accorded to those in fields related to medicine and health, reflecting both an honor and obligation to work on behalf of the organization, its governance, and its studies. With their election, members make a commitment to devote a significant amount of volunteer time on a broad range of activities on health policy issues.</p>

<h1>The universities with most members in national academies listed below:</h1>

<h1>1 Harvard (271 members in total, 157 in NAS, 15 in NAE, 99 in IOM)</h1>

<h1>2 Stanford (260 members in total, 126 in NAS, 85 in NAE, 49 in IOM)</h1>

<h1>3 MIT (236 members in total, 102 in NAS, 108 in NAE, 26 in IOM)</h1>

<h1>4 Berkeley (209 members in total, 128 in NAS, 73 in NAE, 8 in IOM)</h1>

<h1>5 University of California at San Diego</h1>

<pre><code> (107 members in total, 66 in NAS, 16 in NAE, 25 in IOM)
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<h1>6 Caltech (100 members in total, 67 in NAS, 30 in NAE, 3 in IOM)</h1>

<h1>6 Yale (100 members in total, 64 in NAS, 5 in NAE, 31 in IOM)</h1>

<h1>8 Princeton( 97 members in total, 70 in NAS, 20 in NAE, 7 in IOM)</h1>

<h1>9 Columbia ( 92 members in total, 38 in NAS, 17 in NAE, 37 in IOM)</h1>

<p>Other universities :</p>

<p>Cornell ( 62 members in total, 39 in NAS, 21 in NAE, 2 in IOM)
U Penn ( 82 members in total, 35 in NAS, 8 in NAE, 39 in IOM)
U Washington ( 84 members in total, 41 in NAS, 12 in NAE, 31 in IOM)
Chicago ( 50 members in total, 40 in NAS, 1 in NAE, 9 in IOM)
Duke ( 51 members in total, 18 in NAS, 3 in NAE, 30 in IOM)</p>

<p>Brown ( 17 members in total, 10 in NAS, 4 in NAE, 3 in IOM)
Dartmouth ( 11 members in total, 2 in NAS, 3 in NAE, 6 in IOM)</p>

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<p>Are you sure that's University of Washington and not Washington University?</p>

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<p>Check the following National academies websites to see how many faculty members were selected into national academies for any university. </p>

<p><a href="http://www.nasonline.org/site/Dir?sid=1011&view=basic&pg=srch%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.nasonline.org/site/Dir?sid=1011&view=basic&pg=srch&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p><a href="http://www.nae.edu/nae/naepub.nsf/Members%20By%20Parent%20InstitutionB?OpenView&Start=30%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.nae.edu/nae/naepub.nsf/Members%20By%20Parent%20InstitutionB?OpenView&Start=30&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p><a href="http://www.iom.edu/directory.asp%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.iom.edu/directory.asp&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

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<p>To cre8tive1,</p>

<p>I'm pretty sure about this. University of Washington has more faculty selected into the National Academies than Washington University.</p>

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<p>Wisconsin has about 72 total.</p>

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<p>Does anyone care to figure out what these numbers would look like after they are normalized for the school's size? It seems that Caltech, Princeton and Yale would all shoot up in the rankings. Additionally, I don't quite know how fair it is to include the number of faculty in the IOM when alot of those schools don't have medical schools! (Berkeley, MIT, Princeton, Caltech...even then, its amazing how MIT and Columbia are almost equal in IOM membership)</p>

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<p>If you are evaluating undergraduate programs you should adjust these numbers not only for size but also for the number of members who actually teach undergraduates and the number of hours that they teach. Pick a few NAS members from Harvard and check out last semester's course bulletin for Harvard College to see the number of hours that they spend teaching undergraduate courses.</p>

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<p>All Columbia professors are required to teach undergraduate courses every year, so they do get a lot of teaching time in and students really do get to interact with their profs.</p>

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<p>In the USNEWS grad rankings 2006 edition is has % of engineering faculty in NAE</p>

<p>1) Berkeley with 19%
2) UCSB with 15.7%
3) Stanford with 14.5%
4) Harvard with 14%
5) USC with 13.5%
MIT
Princeton
Caltech</p>

<p>I don't know about the sciences</p>

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<p>Like Columbia, Harvard requires all faculty in the Arts & Sciences to teach undergrads every year (except for sabbatical, of course), so you won't learn much from doing this.</p>

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<p>Michigan has about 70 faculty members that are members of the NAS, NAE and NIM.</p>

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<p>All of those are in science-related fields. How about distinguished faculty in the humanities, social sciences and arts?</p>

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<p>Eclipse, it is pretty much the same schools minus the more science intensive schools like MIT, CalTech, UCSD and couple others. So I would say Cal, Chicago, Columbia, Cornell, Duke, Harvard, Michigan, Penn, Princeton, Stanford and Yale have the best faculties for the humanities and social sciences.</p>

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<p>Looking at the top 4, just by names, you might expect Stanford to top it, because it excels in all three areas, while the others of the top 4 excell only in 2/3 (Berkeley lacks a med school) of those areas.
Caltech might be #1 if adjusted for student population.</p>

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<p>That might be true, but I'd say that no matter how tall the heap of awards a person has or how groundbreaking the research, that person could be totally useless as a professor. In fact, sometimes the most brilliant people are the worst teachers, because they may be poor communicators or just can't make themselves understood to someone who knows far less than they about the subject.</p>

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<p>I guess if you want a ranking of the research aspects of a university, that list is pretty much it.</p>

<p>I'm surprised UChicago is so low there. The school has almost twice the number of Nobel laurettes as Harvard.</p>

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<p>Yes, Berkeley lacks a medical school. But this is because UCSF is right across the bay and one of the best medical schools in the world. And the two do lots of research together. The BioE program is joint and I know many Cal ME students do their research at UCSF. So, they get access to those minds as well.</p>