The University of Chicago

Date: Aug 19 2002
Major: Physics (This Major's Salary over time)
University of Chicago is NOT for everybody. If you are intelligent and want the challenge, the University of Chicago is probably the best place to get your undergraduate education. Unlike our peers schools like Harvard, Yale, Princeton and Stanford, Chicago's common core curriculum requires any physics majors to study 3 civilization, 3 social sciences, 3 humanities, 3 biology/chem classes in addition to math and physics. For a quantitative oriented physics/math majors, civilization, humanility, and social sciences classes are the challenges. Reading Shakespere is no fun for math guys. Soci-humanilty classes opened my eyes and even changed the way I look at physics problems. That is the power of the Chicago education.

If you are smart, but does not want to learn for the learning's sake, Harvard, Stanford maybe a better choice. So definitely know what makes you happy and fulfilling.

When I walk by the hall way of my Physics lab building and pass the portraits of 24 physics Nobel prize winners University of Chicago produced (Chicago produced more physics Nobel prize winners than any school in the US, and produced 73 Nobel prize winners in general, more than any university in the US), I know what kind of education I am receiving at the University of Chicago.