<p>Harvard is number one law and medicine, the two most desirable fields (subjective). It should definitely be first.</p>
<p>yea, but that is solely professional programs....</p>
<p>afruff - i consider yale to be better than harvard for both law and medicine. id say stanford is better in medicine, and close in law as well.</p>
<p>^ Yale and Stanford better than Harvard for medicine? Based on what?</p>
<p>chicagoboy, Harvard is #1 in Medicine. Only Johns Hopkins comes close. Harvard is to Medicine as MIT is to Engineering.</p>
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<p>That was kinda my point. :)</p>
<p>Plus, there are other med schools (e.g., Penn, WUStL, UCSF, Duke) that are typically ranked above Yale and Stanford.</p>
<p>UChicago is definitely not #4 in economics. It is certainly #1 for economics. Economics is like UChicago's specialty. They have produced the greatest number of nobel prize winners in history, in addition to other fantastic contributions to economics that has been unparalleled.</p>
<p>For the most objective ranking of top graduate schools, check the Faculty Scholarly Productivity Index by Academic Analytics.</p>
<p>A list of top performance PhD programs by area of study may be also found here.</p>
<p>bruno, those rankings may be objective, but they aren't accurate.</p>
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<p>The FSP is entirely based on legitimate academic productivity metrics such as number of publications, citations, research grant dollars, and awards/honors per faculty. I can't think of a better indicator to assess the quality of a PhD program. </p>
<p>Of course, if you think the index methodology is flawed or inaccurate, please kindly state your objections.</p>
<p>I don't have a lot of time, but in general, any Engineering ranking that includes Emory and UNC is questionable since neither one of those universities have Engineering departments. </p>
<p>I agree that in general, rankings based on pure statistics are the most "objective". They also happen to be the most flawed. You cannot have a good ranking without taking into account the human factor.</p>
<p>oops guys i think i was thinking biology. sorry bout that.</p>
<p>Chicagoboy, you're a high school senior, right? On what basis of knowledge of the real world are you in a position to state with any degree of confidence whatsoever that Y and S are better than H for law, medicine or anything else? In the real world, the distinctions are so minute as to be irrelevant. Only overwrought high school students who don't know any better think that these are Real, Meaningful Distinctions.</p>
<p>"In the real world, the distinctions are so minute as to be irrelevant."</p>
<p>Take a look around, pizzagirl. Almost every thread on this website is about "which school is better," or a ranking system.</p>
<p>Yes, by mostly HS kids who never even had a real job.</p>
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<p>The answer couldn't be more simple: $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$.</p>
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<p>So, if everyother high school senior, and also college students included, can go around and state their clear cut opinions without have "real world" experience, then why can't i?</p>
<p>You may. We'll just take it for what it's worth.</p>
<p>1) Berkeley (Our grad programs are really our strongest point.)
2) Stanford
3) Harvard
4) UChicago?</p>
<p>Feel free to state your opinion, chicagoboy. It's based on absolutely nothing other than stereotypes and a lack of knowledge of the real world (where no one parses these schools to this extent, despite what high school seniors seem to think) but it's a free country.</p>