Elite Universities Debate

Discussions center on elite universities like Harvard, Stanford, MIT, Berkeley, and Cambridge, debating their public vs. private status, inclusion in studies or rankings, and comparisons to international institutions.

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notalaser Oct 4, 2016 View on HN

A university is not "most organizations".

seanmcdirmid Aug 15, 2020 View on HN

Some public universities do that as well.

dnautics Dec 18, 2021 View on HN

Why are you comparing universities to states?

tzs Feb 27, 2019 View on HN

Why specifically public universities? Why not also universities such as Harvard, Stanford, MIT, Caltech, etc.?

RicoElectrico Feb 28, 2025 View on HN

Yes, it is. Top universities do.

byyoung3 Jun 14, 2024 View on HN

this seems sort of like college rankings

arethuza Aug 2, 2023 View on HN

It might be that thing of using "schools" to refer to tertiary education? In that case both universities have an even higher proportion of PMs... ;-)

pbk1 Mar 3, 2017 View on HN

that would seem to make it comparable to a number of "elite" American universities ;)

olliej Oct 26, 2022 View on HN

Stanford and Harvard at least do this.

Aldipower May 23, 2025 View on HN

Reading trough the comments, it seems Harvard is the only university in the US. Didn't know that.. :-D