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...area where Harvard bit the dust was faculty resources, which counted for 20 percent, based on such factors as student-faculty ratio, faculty doctoral degrees, percent of part-time faculty, average salary and class size (excluding sections). We were ranked 11th; Yale and Princeton were 6th and 7th, with Caltech taking the top spot. You would think that with Harvard's "best in the world" policy of hiring faculty, we could do better than a measly 11th. Then again, U.S. News did not include faculty name recognition as a category...
...ranking played no role in their decision to go to Har- U.S. News' Top Ten Universities U.S. News' ranking will hit newsstands this week. Rank/University 1. Yale University 2. Princeton University 3. Harvard University 4. Duke University 5. MIT 6. Stanford University 7. Dartmouth College 8. Brown University 9. CalTech * 9. Northwestern * * Tied...
That's not at all intended to cast aspersion on the dedicated scientists at Caltech in sunny Pasadena, Calif. (the weather of said city being another science-fiction-like spectre from the vantage point of a New England winter). Malfunctioning antenna and tape deck aside, their probe has lasted six years in space and will, we hope, give us some spectacular pictures...
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