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Rankings Index • About the Rankings • Premium Online Edition • Log out Chemistry (New! Ranked in 2002*)
Rank/School | Average assessment score (5 = highest)
1. | University of California–Berkeley | 5.0
2. | California Institute of Technology | 4.9
| Harvard University (MA) | 4.9
| Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 4.9
5. | Stanford University (CA) | 4.8
6. | Scripps Research Institute (CA) | 4.5
| University of Illinois–Urbana-Champaign | 4.5
8. | Columbia University (NY) | 4.4
| Cornell University (NY) | 4.4
| University of Wisconsin–Madison | 4.4
11. | University of California–Los Angeles | 4.3
12. | Northwestern University (IL) | 4.2
| University of Texas–Austin | 4.2
14. | Princeton University (NJ) | 4.1
| University of Chicago | 4.1
| University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill | 4.1
| Yale University (CT) | 4.1
18. | Penn State University–University Park | 4.0
| Purdue University–West Lafayette (IN) | 4.0
| University of Pennsylvania | 4.0
21. | University of Michigan–Ann Arbor | 3.9
22. | Ohio State University | 3.8
| Texas A&M University–College Station | 3.8
| University of California–San Diego | 3.8
| University of Colorado–Boulder | 3.8
| University of Minnesota–Twin Cities | 3.8
27. | Indiana University–Bloomington | 3.7
| Johns Hopkins University (MD) | 3.7
| University of Washington | 3.7
30. | University of California–Irvine | 3.6
| University of California–Santa Barbara | 3.6
32. | Georgia Institute of Technology | 3.5
| Iowa State University | 3.5
| Michigan State University | 3.5
| Rice University (TX) | 3.5
| University of Florida | 3.5
37. | Colorado State University | 3.4
| University of Arizona | 3.4
| University of California–Davis | 3.4
| University of California–San Francisco | 3.4
| University of Pittsburgh | 3.4
| University of Utah | 3.4
43. | Duke University (NC) | 3.3
| Emory University (GA) | 3.3
| University of Maryland–College Park | 3.3
| Washington University in St. Louis | 3.3
47. | SUNY–Stony Brook | 3.2
| University of Rochester (NY) | 3.2
| University of Southern California | 3.2
| University of Virginia | 3.2
51. | Carnegie Mellon University (PA) | 3.1
| Florida State University | 3.1
| North Carolina State University | 3.1
54. | Arizona State University | 3.0
| University of California–Riverside | 3.0
| University of Georgia | 3.0
| University of Massachusetts–Amherst | 3.0
58. | Boston College | 2.9
| Brown University (RI) | 2.9
| Case Western Reserve University (OH) | 2.9
| University of Iowa | 2.9
| University of Kansas | 2.9
| University of Notre Dame (IN) | 2.9
| University of Oregon | 2.9
| Virginia Tech | 2.9
| Wayne State University (MI) | 2.9
67. | Brandeis University (MA) | 2.8
| Dartmouth College (NH) | 2.8
| Louisiana State University–Baton Rouge | 2.8
| Rutgers State University–New Brunswick (NJ) | 2.8
| SUNY–Buffalo | 2.8
| University of Delaware | 2.8
| Vanderbilt University (TN) | 2.8
74. | Boston University | 2.7
| Oregon State University | 2.7
| University of Illinois–Chicago | 2.7
| University of South Carolina | 2.7
| University of Tennessee–Knoxville | 2.7
| Washington State University | 2.7
80. | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (NY) | 2.6
| Syracuse University (NY) | 2.6
| University of Connecticut | 2.6
| University of Houston | 2.6
| University of Missouri–Columbia | 2.6
| University of Nebraska–Lincoln | 2.6
86. | Kansas State University | 2.5
| New York University | 2.5
| University of California–Santa Cruz | 2.5
| University of Cincinnati | 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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