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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous[b]]Harvard lists Michigan as a peer institution.[/b] https://faculty.harvard.edu/diversity-peer-institutions

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Who cares what some list says?  I assure you no one considers Michigan to be a peer institute to Harvard. [/quote]

It's not "some list." It's literally what HARVARD SAYS.

But who cares, right? All that matters is what an internet forum thinks -- not what Harvard says are its peer institutions. Of course, if Michigan wasn't on that list, you'd be touting it as evidence that Michigan is nowhere near Harvard's quality. [/quote]

My husband works in higher education, as does my sister (the latter as a professor). [b]I can assure you people in academia absolutely consider Michigan and Berkeley peer institutions to Harvard[/b]. UVA is more dependent on discipline. UChicago is also considered a peer institution to any Ivy League school. [b]When Ivy League professors look elsewhere for jobs, Michigan is absolutely on the table.[/b] Same for UChicago -- I know a political science professor there who recently went to Michigan.

These divisions you all like to pretend exist among these schools really aren't real. [/quote]

Exactly. With Michigan's endowment, they can get just about anyone they want. But it has always been the graduate schools that have made its reputation. Go to any department ranking and Michigan is up there with the Ivy League.[/quote]

The graduate programs make the reputation of the vast majority of universities (except for those that have fewer graduate programs and focus more on undergrad education, like Princeton).

Harvard's undergrad program would be ranked significantly lower than it is if it wasn't attached to a university with dozens of lauded graduate programs. [/quote]

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