According to a survey done twenty years ago, the University of Chicago ranked third among American colleges and universities, enjoying a lofty academic reputation and battling it out for number one as a worthy representative for the Midwest against Harvard on the east coast and Stanford in the west.
根據二十多年前的一項調查，芝加哥大學高踞全美大學及研究所排行第三名，足以代表中部，和東岸的哈佛及西岸的史丹福分庭抗禮，並享有崇高的學術地位。