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Rankings Index • About the Rankings • Premium Online Edition • Log out Applied Mathematics (New! Ranked in 2002*)
Rank/School | Average assessment score (5 = highest)
1. | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 4.7
| New York University | 4.7
3. | California Institute of Technology | 4.6
4. | Stanford University (CA) | 4.5
5. | Brown University (RI) | 4.4
| Princeton University (NJ) | 4.4
| University of California–Berkeley | 4.4
| University of California–Los Angeles | 4.4
9. | University of Minnesota–Twin Cities | 4.3
10. | Cornell University (NY) | 4.2
11. | Carnegie Mellon University (PA) | 4.0
| University of Maryland–College Park | 4.0
| University of Texas–Austin | 4.0
14. | Northwestern University (IL) | 3.9
| Rice University (TX) | 3.9
| University of Washington | 3.9
| University of Wisconsin–Madison | 3.9
18. | Georgia Institute of Technology | 3.8
| University of Chicago | 3.8
| University of Michigan–Ann Arbor | 3.8
21. | Harvard University (MA) | 3.7
| Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (NY) | 3.7
| Rutgers State University–New Brunswick (NJ) | 3.7
| SUNY–Stony Brook | 3.7
| University of Arizona | 3.7
| University of Colorado–Boulder | 3.7
27. | Duke University (NC) | 3.6
| Purdue University–West Lafayette (IN) | 3.6
| University of Illinois–Urbana-Champaign | 3.6
| Yale University (CT) | 3.6
31. | North Carolina State University | 3.5
| University of California–San Diego | 3.5
33. | Columbia University (NY) | 3.4
| Indiana University–Bloomington | 3.4
| Johns Hopkins University (MD) | 3.4
| Penn State University–University Park | 3.4
| University of California–Davis | 3.4
| Virginia Tech | 3.4
39. | Ohio State University | 3.3
| Texas A&M University–College Station | 3.3
| University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill | 3.3
| University of Utah | 3.3
43. | Boston University | 3.2
44. | Arizona State University | 3.1
| University of California–Santa Barbara | 3.1
| University of Delaware | 3.1
47. | Claremont Graduate University (CA) | 3.0
| CUNY Graduate School and University Center | 3.0
| Iowa State University | 3.0
| University of California–Irvine | 3.0
| University of Pennsylvania | 3.0
| University of Southern California | 3.0
| Washington University in St. Louis | 3.0
54. | Florida State University | 2.9
| Michigan State University | 2.9
| University of Illinois–Chicago | 2.9
| University of Pittsburgh | 2.9
| University of Virginia | 2.9
59. | University of Houston | 2.8
| University of Iowa | 2.8
61. | University of Florida | 2.7
| University of Massachusetts–Amherst | 2.7
| University of Tennessee–Knoxville | 2.7
64. | Brandeis University (MA) | 2.6
| New Jersey Institute of Technology | 2.6
| SUNY–Buffalo | 2.6
| University of Notre Dame (IN) | 2.6
| Vanderbilt University (TN) | 2.6
69. | Case Western Reserve University (OH) | 2.5
| Clemson University (SC) | 2.5
| Colorado School of Mines | 2.5
| Colorado State University | 2.5
| Dartmouth College (NH) | 2.5
| Emory University (GA) | 2.5
| Oregon State University | 2.5
| Polytechnic University (NY) | 2.5
| University of Georgia | 2.5
| University of Missouri–Columbia | 2.5
| Washington State University | 2.5
*This ranking was computed in January of the year cited, based on data from a survey sent out in the fall of the previous year.
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