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American university professors consistently rate the quality of graduate faculties at Harvard and the University of California at Berkeley as the highest in the nation, according to a survey released by the American Council of Education...
...survey, which rates graduate school faculties and programs in 36 academic fields, is a follow-up to a controversial study completed by the council in 1966 which rated Berkeley over Harvard as the nation's "best balanced, most distinguished university...
...report seeks to avoid "invidious comparisons of institutions," according to Logan Wilson, president of the American Council on Education. The following schools, however, appear most often among the top five in the ratings: Berkeley, Harvard, Stanford, Chicago, Yale, M. I. T., Michigan, Cal Tech, Wisconsin, Illinois, Columbia, and Rockefeller University...
...Berkeley, which has been plagued by severe cutbacks in legislative support, Roger W. Heyns, the outgoing chancellor, declared that "the outstanding ratings given to Berkeley should please the citizens of California...
...Berkeley appears among the top five in 32 graduate fields and is first in eight fields. Harvard appears among the top five in 27 fields but is first in 14 of them. Most universities which received high ratings were large and comparatively well-endowed schools...