University of Chicago
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#1 in Social Sciences research#4 in Physical Sciences research#5 in Mathematics & Statistics research
359 faculty · 0 courses · data as of 2026-07-02
Ian Foster, Arthur Holly Compton Distinguished Service Professor of Computer Science h-index 125
Notable: “The Anatomy of the Grid: Enabling Scalable Virtual Organizations” (2001) · 6,583 citations
Michael Franklin, Morton D. Hull Distinguished Service Professor h-index 86
Notable: “Spark: cluster computing with working sets” (2010) · 4,236 citations
Eliu Huerta, Senior Scientist, CASE Affiliate h-index 85
Notable: “The NANOGrav 11-year data set: High-precision timing of 45 millisecond pulsars” (2024) · 526 citations
Tian Li, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Data Science h-index 79
Notable: “CLIP4Clip: An empirical study of CLIP for end to end video clip retrieval and captioning” (2022) · 677 citations
Mark Oreglia, Professor Emeritus h-index 148
Notable: “Neutrino tridents andW-Zinterference” (1991) · 263 citations
David Miller, Professor h-index 131
Es on answering open questions about the fundamental structure of matter. By studying the quarks and gluons -—the particles that comprise everyday protons and neutrons —produced in the energetic collisions of protons at the Larg
Notable: “Perceived security and World Wide Web purchase intention” (2001) · 671 citations
Daniel Holz, Professor h-index 111
Notable: “Cosmology intertwined: A review of the particle physics, astrophysics, and cosmology associated with the cosmological tensions and anomalies” (2022) · 1,184 citations
David Awschalom, Professor h-index 106
Notable: “Spintronics: A Spin-Based Electronics Vision for the Future” (2001) · 11,393 citations
Paul Alivisatos, President of the University of Chicago; John D. MacArthur Distinguished Service Professor h-index 175
Materials Chemistry, Physical Chemistry
Notable: “Semiconductor Clusters, Nanocrystals, and Quantum Dots” (1996) · 11,416 citations
Chuan He, John T. Wilson Distinguished Service Professor h-index 163
Chemical Biology, Inorganic Chemistry
Notable: “N6-methyladenosine-dependent regulation of messenger RNA stability” (2013) · 4,831 citations
Wenbin Lin, James Franck Professor of Chemistry h-index 149
Catalysis, Chemical Biology, Inorganic Chemistry, Materials Chemistry
Notable: “Enantioselective catalysis with homochiral metal–organic frameworks” (2009) · 3,111 citations
Benoît Roux, Professor h-index 128
Biophysics, Physical Chemistry, Theoretical Chemistry
Notable: “All-Atom Empirical Potential for Molecular Modeling and Dynamics Studies of Proteins” (1998) · 14,528 citations
Lars Peter Hansen, David Rockefeller Distinguished Service Professor h-index 75
Notable: “Large Sample Properties of Generalized Method of Moments Estimators” (1982) · 13,876 citations
Donald Hedeker, Professor of Biostatistics h-index 68
For example in the areas of mobile health (mHealth) and ecological momentary assessment (EMA) studies. For such intensive longitudinal data, Don has developed the mixed-effects
Notable: “A Practical Guide to Calculating Cohen’s f2, a Measure of Local Effect Size, from PROC MIXED” (2012) · 1,300 citations
Stephen M. Stigler, Ernest DeWitt Burton Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus h-index 42
Notable: “The History of Statistics: The Measurement of Uncertainty Before 1900.” (1987) · 811 citations
Gregory F. Lawler, George Wells Beadle Distinguished Service Professor h-index 41
Notable: “Values of Brownian intersection exponents, II: Plane exponents” (2001) · 373 citations
James J. Heckman, The Henry Schultz Distinguished Service Professor in Economics and the College; Director of Center for the Economics of Human Development h-index 156
Notable: “Matching As An Econometric Evaluation Estimator: Evidence from Evaluating a Job Training Programme” (1997) · 5,521 citations
John List, The Kenneth C. Griffin Distinguished Service Professor in Economics and the College; Director of the Becker Friedman Institute h-index 102
Notable: “Redefine statistical significance” (2017) · 2,790 citations
Michael Greenstone, The Milton Friedman Distinguished Service Professor in Economics, the College, and the Harris School h-index 82
Notable: “The Lancet Commission on pollution and health” (2017) · 4,818 citations
Michael Kremer, University Professor in Economics and the College and the Harris School of Public Policy; Director of the Development Innovation Lab h-index 80
Notable: “Worms: Identifying Impacts on Education and Health in the Presence of Treatment Externalities” (2003) · 2,281 citations
Susan Stokes, Tiffany and Margaret Blake Distinguished Service Professor h-index 38
John Mearsheimer, R. Wendell Harrison Distinguished Service Professor of Political Science h-index 37
John McCormick, Karl J. Weintraub Professor h-index 34
Dali Yang, William Claude Reavis Professor h-index 30
Faculty counts are directory headcounts; the named list may be a subset. h-index shown only for ORCID-backed or high-confidence OpenAlex matches. Partial — enrichment ongoing.
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About University of Chicago. University of Chicago in Chicago, IL reports an overall acceptance rate of 4.5%, an early-round acceptance rate of 17.9%, an SAT middle 50% of 1510–1560, a class size of 1,726, and a yield of 86.0% based on the most recent Common Data Set filings. Does not officially publish ED/EA rates. Has both EA and ED/EDII options. Known for quirky essay prompts. Intellectual rigor culture.