60.7% of matchups won
428 matchups
Elo 1691
tracked 2025/05/25 → 2026/09/03
mission: Education, research, community engagement · Higher education · universities
Public sentiment
how often it gets picked, by matchup framing60%
picked as helping wellbeing
312 matchups
64%
picked as hurting wellbeing
116 matchups
People are split on it.
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Rating over time
Elo, 7-day average · history as of 2025-08-29Related
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Known for
- $15.6 billion endowment
- 33 Nobel Prize laureates
- Founding Big Ten member
- First university to exonerate inmate
- International campus in Qatar
Based on 428 head-to-head matchups from Mic Check's global survey; ratings use Elo (1500 = neutral start). Latest data 2026/09/03. Full rankings ·
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