University of Chicago, absent its present identification with a certain national leader, is as good a university as there is in the US. Until recently I’d sooner have said I went to U of C than Harvard. (as it is, I went to neither)
It was formerly associated with Milton Friedman. Unfortunately, it seems it’s being taken over by an entirely new crowd. The current faculty revolted at the school’s naming a division in honor of Dr. Friedman.