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Knowles’ comparisons pit Harvard against peer institutions. At Yale, for example, 39 percent of professors are hard scientists—3 percentage points above the figure for Harvard. (Princeton, Stanford, and Berkeley are even more heavily weighted toward the hard-science side.) Meanwhile, just 24 percent of Yale faculty members are social scientists, 10 percentage points below the Harvard figure. (The other three schools’ faculties have even smaller social science contingents...
...Knowles doesn’t compare the Harvard student body to that of peer institutions. Just 42 percent of Princeton undergrads and 37 percent of Yalies concentrate in the social sciences, well below below Harvard’s 54 percent. Both Stanford and Berkeley boast far fewer (25 and 30 respectively...
...News researchers evaluate the schools based on factors such as selectivity, peer and professional assessment, student-faculty ratio, and post-graduation employment...
...News researchers evaluate the schools based on factors such as selectivity, peer and professional assessment, student-faculty ratio, and post-graduation employment...
Ryan, the Weary professor of German and comparative literature, said that she still had the impression that humanities departments at Harvard were smaller than their counterparts at peer institutions, and, as a result, professors’ time was stretched thin...