Well, it seems to rank competitively with Harvard and MIT with respect to Math and Physics if you go by recent Nobel and Fields medals. Granted those are proble

Well, it seems to rank competitively with Harvard and MIT with respect to Math and Physics if you go by recent Nobel and Fields medals. Granted those are problematic measures along with US News, but publication rates will probably bear that out. And in terms of completion rate, it tends to be a "by nerds, for nerds" institution, that is highly self-selecting -- the kind of place you only know about because you've researched it. The flames aside, the financial straights are quite troubling. Shold a school that many econ Nobel's really be in such straits? Maybe Levitt [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Levitt http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Levitt] should take a crack at this one?