Four universities: University of Chicago

THE EMPHASIS IN the physics curriculum at the University of Chicago is strongly influenced by two rare characteristics of the university. First, it is one of the very few universities with neither an engineering nor an applied science program. Second, the university is one of the few schools in which graduate students outnumber undergraduates. At Chicago there are 5700 graduate students and 2600 undergraduates. Within the physics department the corresponding numbers are 200 and 120. Because of both of these characteristics, the department does not have the heavy undergraduate teaching load common to most universities.

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