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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Too undergrad focused. JHU is way too low, for example.  JHU gets the most govt funding out of any school in the country and has more Nobel prize winners than a lot of schools ranked higher.  A university is more than just about undergrads.  Hopkins has 29 Nobel prize winners while Duke only has 2, for example. [/quote]

For what it's worth, Duke definitely has more than 2 Nobel prize winners, not sure where you get that number.[/quote]

It was a typo - meant 12 as far as I know.  JHU still has 2x that. [/quote]

Nobel prize counting is not exactly straightforward: most schools count winners as affiliates, meaning people who spent time previously at the institution doing research, teaching, or even doing postgraduate studies all count. If you look purely at alumni winners, the numbers get much smaller. Also, Nobel prizes are primarily a reflection of graduate studies, not undergraduate studies. Hence Berkeley having over 110 "Nobel prize winners" which is actually inflated compared to alumni who've actually gone to win.[/quote]

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