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Rankings Index • About the Rankings • Premium Online Edition • Log out Physics (New! Ranked in 2002*)
Rank/School | Average assessment score (5 = highest)
1. | California Institute of Technology | 5.0
| Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 5.0
3. | Harvard University (MA) | 4.9
| Princeton University (NJ) | 4.9
| Stanford University (CA) | 4.9
| University of California–Berkeley | 4.9
7. | Cornell University (NY) | 4.6
| University of Chicago | 4.6
9. | University of Illinois–Urbana-Champaign | 4.5
10. | Columbia University (NY) | 4.3
| University of California–Santa Barbara | 4.3
12. | Yale University (CT) | 4.2
13. | University of Maryland–College Park | 4.1
| University of Michigan–Ann Arbor | 4.1
| University of Texas–Austin | 4.1
16. | University of California–Los Angeles | 4.0
| University of California–San Diego | 4.0
| University of Washington | 4.0
| University of Wisconsin–Madison | 4.0
20. | Johns Hopkins University (MD) | 3.9
| University of Colorado–Boulder | 3.9
| University of Pennsylvania | 3.9
23. | SUNY–Stony Brook | 3.8
24. | Ohio State University | 3.7
| Rutgers State University–New Brunswick (NJ) | 3.7
| University of Minnesota–Twin Cities | 3.7
27. | Penn State University–University Park | 3.6
28. | Brown University (RI) | 3.5
| Carnegie Mellon University (PA) | 3.5
| Michigan State University | 3.5
| Northwestern University (IL) | 3.5
32. | Duke University (NC) | 3.4
| Georgia Institute of Technology | 3.4
| Indiana University–Bloomington | 3.4
| Purdue University–West Lafayette (IN) | 3.4
| Rice University (TX) | 3.4
| University of Rochester (NY) | 3.4
38. | Florida State University | 3.3
| University of Arizona | 3.3
| University of California–Irvine | 3.3
| University of Florida | 3.3
| University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill | 3.3
| University of Virginia | 3.3
44. | Boston University | 3.2
| University of California–Davis | 3.2
46. | Iowa State University | 3.1
| Texas A&M University–College Station | 3.1
| University of California–Santa Cruz | 3.1
| University of Pittsburgh | 3.1
| University of Southern California | 3.1
| Washington University in St. Louis | 3.1
52. | Arizona State University | 3.0
| Brandeis University (MA) | 3.0
| Case Western Reserve University (OH) | 3.0
| New York University | 3.0
| North Carolina State University | 3.0
| University of Massachusetts–Amherst | 3.0
| University of Notre Dame (IN) | 3.0
| University of Oregon | 3.0
| Vanderbilt University (TN) | 3.0
61. | CUNY Graduate School and University Center | 2.9
| Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (NY) | 2.9
| Rockefeller University (NY) | 2.9
| University of Iowa | 2.9
| University of Tennessee–Knoxville | 2.9
66. | Syracuse University (NY) | 2.8
| University of California–Riverside | 2.8
| University of Utah | 2.8
| Virginia Tech | 2.8
70. | College of William and Mary (VA) | 2.7
| Kansas State University | 2.7
| Louisiana State University–Baton Rouge | 2.7
| Northeastern University (MA) | 2.7
| University of Georgia | 2.7
| University of Illinois–Chicago | 2.7
| University of Nebraska–Lincoln | 2.7
77. | Colorado State University | 2.6
| Dartmouth College (NH) | 2.6
| University of Connecticut | 2.6
| University of Delaware | 2.6
| University of Houston | 2.6
| University of Kansas | 2.6
| University of New Mexico | 2.6
84. | Oregon State University | 2.5
| SUNY–Buffalo | 2.5
| Tufts University (MA) | 2.5
| University of Hawaii–Manoa | 2.5
| University of Kentucky | 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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