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Rankings Index • About the Rankings • Premium Online Edition • Log out Biological Sciences (New! Ranked in 2002*)
Rank/School | Average assessment score (5 = highest)
1. | Stanford University (CA) | 4.9
2. | Harvard University (MA) | 4.8
| Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 4.8
| University of California–Berkeley | 4.8
5. | California Institute of Technology | 4.7
| Johns Hopkins University (MD) | 4.7
| University of California–San Francisco | 4.7
8. | Rockefeller University (NY) | 4.6
9. | Princeton University (NJ) | 4.5
| Scripps Research Institute (CA) | 4.5
| Yale University (CT) | 4.5
12. | Duke University (NC) | 4.4
| University of Wisconsin–Madison | 4.4
14. | Columbia University (NY) | 4.3
| Cornell University (NY) | 4.3
| University of California–San Diego | 4.3
| University of Michigan–Ann Arbor | 4.3
| University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center–Dallas | 4.3
| Washington University in St. Louis | 4.3
20. | University of California–Los Angeles | 4.2
| University of Chicago | 4.2
| University of Washington | 4.2
23. | University of Pennsylvania | 4.1
24. | Baylor College of Medicine (TX) | 4.0
| University of California–Davis | 4.0
| University of Illinois–Urbana-Champaign | 4.0
27. | University of Colorado–Boulder | 3.9
| University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill | 3.9
29. | Cornell University (Weill) (NY) | 3.7
| Emory University (GA) | 3.7
| Mayo Medical School (MN) | 3.7
| University of Minnesota–Twin Cities | 3.7
| University of Texas–Austin | 3.7
| Vanderbilt University (TN) | 3.7
| Yeshiva University (Albert Einstein) (NY) | 3.7
36. | Brandeis University (MA) | 3.6
| Northwestern University (IL) | 3.6
| Purdue University–West Lafayette (IN) | 3.6
| University of California–Irvine | 3.6
| University of Virginia | 3.6
41. | Case Western Reserve University (OH) | 3.5
| Indiana University–Bloomington | 3.5
| University of Arizona | 3.5
| University of Colorado Health Sciences Center | 3.5
45. | Brown University (RI) | 3.4
| Dartmouth College (NH) | 3.4
| Michigan State University | 3.4
| Pennsylvania State University–University Park | 3.4
| Rice University (TX) | 3.4
| SUNY–Stony Brook | 3.4
| University of Alabama–Birmingham | 3.4
| University of Iowa | 3.4
| University of Maryland–College Park | 3.4
54. | Carnegie Mellon University (PA) | 3.3
| Ohio State University | 3.3
| Rutgers State University–New Brunswick (NJ) | 3.3
| University of Florida | 3.3
| University of Georgia | 3.3
| University of Oregon | 3.3
60. | Texas A&M University–College Station | 3.2
| Tufts University (MA) | 3.2
| University of California–Santa Barbara | 3.2
| University of Massachusetts–Amherst | 3.2
| University of Pittsburgh | 3.2
| University of Rochester (NY) | 3.2
| University of Texas Health Science Center–Houston | 3.2
| University of Utah | 3.2
68. | Georgia Institute of Technology | 3.1
| Iowa State University | 3.1
| New York University | 3.1
| North Carolina State University | 3.1
| University of Illinois–Chicago | 3.1
| University of Massachusetts Medical Center–Worcester | 3.1
| University of Texas Health Science Center–San Antonio | 3.1
75. | Arizona State University | 3.0
| Boston University | 3.0
| OGI School of Sci. & Engineering–Oregon Health & Sci. U. | 3.0
| Oregon State University | 3.0
| UMDNJ–New Jersey Medical School | 3.0
| University of California–Riverside | 3.0
| University of Connecticut | 3.0
| University of Kansas | 3.0
| University of Miami (FL) | 3.0
| University of Southern California | 3.0
| University of Texas Medical Branch–Galveston | 3.0
| Washington State University | 3.0
87. | Baylor University (TX) | 2.9
| Florida State University | 2.9
| Georgetown University (DC) | 2.9
| Tulane University | 2.9
| University of California–Santa Cruz | 2.9
| University of Cincinnati | 2.9
| University of Missouri–Columbia | 2.9
| Virginia Tech | 2.9
95. | Colorado State University | 2.8
| Kansas State University | 2.8
| Medical College of Wisconsin | 2.8
| Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (NY) | 2.8
| Syracuse University (NY) | 2.8
| University of Kentucky | 2.8
| University of Notre Dame (IN) | 2.8
| University of Tennessee Health Sciences Center | 2.8
| University of Tennessee–Knoxville | 2.8
104. | Boston College | 2.7
| Finch University of Health Sciences–Chicago Medical School | 2.7
| George Washington University (DC) | 2.7
| SUNY–Buffalo | 2.7
| Thomas Jefferson University (PA) | 2.7
| University of Nebraska–Lincoln | 2.7
| University of Nebraska Medical Center | 2.7
| University of Oklahoma | 2.7
| Wake Forest University (NC) | 2.7
113. | Auburn University (AL) | 2.6
| College of William and Mary (VA) | 2.6
| CUNY Graduate School and University Center | 2.6
| Rutgers State University–Newark (NJ) | 2.6
| SUNY–Albany | 2.6
| Temple University (PA) | 2.6
| University of Maryland–Baltimore | 2.6
| Wayne State University (MI) | 2.6
121. | Clemson University (SC) | 2.5
| Louisiana State University–Baton Rouge | 2.5
| Louisiana State University School of Medicine–New Orleans | 2.5
| Medical College of Georgia | 2.5
| Medical College of Pennsylvania | 2.5
| Medical University of South Carolina | 2.5
| New York Medical College | 2.5
| St. Louis University | 2.5
| Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (MD) | 2.5
| University of Delaware | 2.5
| University of Hawaii | 2.5
| University of Maryland–Baltimore County | 2.5
| University of New Mexico | 2.5
| University of Texas–Dallas | 2.5
| University of Vermont | 2.5
| Virginia Commonwealth University | 2.5
| Wesleyan University (CT) | 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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