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Rankings Index • About the Rankings • Premium Online Edition • Log out English (Ranked in 2001*)
Rank/School | Average reputation score (5 = highest)
1. | Harvard University (MA) | 4.8
| Stanford University (CA) | 4.8
| University of California--Berkeley | 4.8
| Yale University (CT) | 4.8
5. | University of Chicago | 4.7
6. | Cornell University (NY) | 4.6
| Princeton University (NJ) | 4.6
8. | Columbia University (NY) | 4.5
| Johns Hopkins University (MD) | 4.5
10. | University of Pennsylvania | 4.4
11. | University of California--Los Angeles | 4.3
| University of Michigan--Ann Arbor | 4.3
| University of Virginia | 4.3
14. | Brown University (RI) | 4.2
15. | Duke University (NC) | 4.1
| University of California--Irvine | 4.1
17. | University of Wisconsin--Madison | 4.0
18. | Northwestern University (IL) | 3.9
| Rutgers State University--New Brunswick (NJ) | 3.9
| University of Illinois--Urbana-Champaign | 3.9
| University of North Carolina--Chapel Hill | 3.9
| University of Texas--Austin | 3.9
23. | Indiana University--Bloomington | 3.8
| University of Washington | 3.8
25. | New York University | 3.7
26. | CUNY Graduate School and University Center | 3.6
27. | Pennsylvania State University--University Park | 3.5
| University of Iowa | 3.5
| Vanderbilt University (TN) | 3.5
30. | Emory University (GA) | 3.4
| University of California--Davis | 3.4
| University of California--Santa Barbara | 3.4
| University of Pittsburgh | 3.4
34. | Claremont Graduate School (CA) | 3.3
| Ohio State University--Columbus | 3.3
| Rice University (TX) | 3.3
| University of Maryland--College Park | 3.3
| University of Minnesota--Twin Cities | 3.3
39. | Brandeis University (MA) | 3.2
| University at Buffalo (NY) | 3.2
| University of California--San Diego | 3.2
| University of California--Santa Cruz | 3.2
| University of Massachusetts--Amherst | 3.2
| University of Southern California | 3.2
| Washington University in St. Louis | 3.2
46. | Tufts University (MA) | 3.1
| University of Arizona | 3.1
| University of California--Riverside | 3.1
| University of Florida | 3.1
| University of Illinois--Chicago | 3.1
| University of Wisconsin--Milwaukee | 3.1
52. | University of Colorado--Boulder | 3.0
| University of Notre Dame (IN) | 3.0
54. | Boston University | 2.9
| Michigan State University | 2.9
| Tulane University (LA) | 2.9
| University of Oregon | 2.9
| University of Rochester (NY) | 2.9
59. | Texas A&M University--College Station | 2.8
| University of Kansas | 2.8
| University of Utah | 2.8
62. | Binghamton University (NY) | 2.7
| Boston College | 2.7
| Miami University--Oxford (OH) | 2.7
| Purdue University--West Lafayette (IN) | 2.7
| SUNY--Stony Brook | 2.7
| University of Connecticut | 2.7
| University of Delaware | 2.7
| University of Georgia | 2.7
| University of Kentucky | 2.7
71. | Fordham University (NY) | 2.6
| Louisiana State University--Baton Rouge | 2.6
| Syracuse University (NY) | 2.6
| Temple University (PA) | 2.6
| University of Missouri--Columbia | 2.6
| University of Nebraska--Lincoln | 2.6
| University of Oklahoma | 2.6
| University of Tennessee--Knoxville | 2.6
79. | Arizona State University | 2.5
| George Washington University (DC) | 2.5
| University of New Mexico | 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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