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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Look. Hopkins doesn't give a shit about undergrads.  Hopkins is bar none a top 5 RESEARCH institution. It leads in number of publications and patents and blows many ivies out of the water in that respect.

Hopkins isn't your typical university.  It focuses mostly at the major league levels while other universities cater towards the minor leagues.  Hopkins also defends this nation.  The second most devastating weapon in all of WWII next to the atom bomb was the proximity fuze. It was advanced by Hopkins. Go read up on the insane history of the proximity fuze and how it basically won the war for the allies in WWII.

Again, lots of apples to oranges here.  Hopkins produces a shit ton of research and patents. Wayyyyyyy more than many ivies and other top institutions.  It is focused more at the much higher end of education than the undergrad level, which is why its 'ranking' is lower. But if you look at actual value added to the human body of knowledge in terms of actual original research and patents, hopkins is top 3-5. Easily.[/quote]

1. You need to chill a little. You seem hyper.

2. I’m sure Hopkins has contributed some great things to the world, but they are not unique in that regard. For example, the Argonne Lab at UChicago was intimately involved in the Manhattan Project and after the war was designated as the US’s first national laboratory. It’s still part of the US Dept of Energy’s national lab system. UChicago also co-manages the Fermilab, which developed a revolutionary particle accelerator. Other major research discoveries at UChicago include the discovery of REM sleep, the calculation of the charge of an electron, etc.

My point is simply that Hopkins is not unique in its contributions to the world. I could make the same list as I did for UChicago if I looked up any number of research institutions. [/quote]

Hopkins publishes more research and obtains more patents than UChicago..it isn't even debatable.....go look up the number of paper published per year by hopkins compared to Chicago.[/quote]

[b]Quantity doesn't mean quality. 
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https://www.leidenranking.com/ranking/2020/list

The Leiden ranking of top papers puts JHU at #7 for the number of top 10% papers in their field but #47 when it comes to the percentage of top 10% papers. It churns out 17k papers per year but is less efficient than Duke, Brandeis, NYU, or Rice at producing papers that are top 10% in their field. When it comes to the percentage of top 5% papers, the ranking is even lower at #55. For the percentage of top 1% papers, it's also #55. Every single ivy and ivy plus school (with the exception of Dartmouth and Brown) beats JHU out of the water when it comes to the quality of publications.

Percentage of total publications belonging to the top 10% of their field (all sciences)

MIT #2 24.5%
Princeton #3 23.6%
Stanford #4 22.0%
Harvard #5 21.6% 
Berkeley #6 21.4%
Caltech #7 21.0%
Yale #12 18.5%
Chicago #13 18.5%
Columbia #17 18.0%
Northwestern #21 17.5%
Penn #24 17.4%
Cornell #25 17.1%
Washington University in St. Louis #28 16.8%
Rice #40 16.3%
NYU #41 16.1%
Duke #42 16.1%
Brandeis #44 15.9%
[b]JHU #47 15.7%
[/b]Dartmouth #60 15.1%
Brown #120 13.5%[/quote]

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