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Rankings Index • About the Rankings • Premium Online Edition • Log out History (Ranked in 2001*)
Rank/School | Average reputation score (5 = highest)
1. | Princeton University (NJ) | 4.9
| Yale University (CT) | 4.9
3. | Stanford University (CA) | 4.8
| University of California--Berkeley | 4.8
5. | Columbia University (NY) | 4.7
| University of Chicago | 4.7
| University of Michigan--Ann Arbor | 4.7
8. | Harvard University (MA) | 4.6
9. | University of California--Los Angeles | 4.5
10. | Cornell University (NY) | 4.4
| Johns Hopkins University (MD) | 4.4
| University of Wisconsin--Madison | 4.4
13. | University of North Carolina--Chapel Hill | 4.3
| University of Pennsylvania | 4.3
15. | Brown University (RI) | 4.1
| Duke University (NC) | 4.1
| Northwestern University (IL) | 4.1
| University of Virginia | 4.1
19. | Indiana University--Bloomington | 4.0
| Rutgers State University--New Brunswick (NJ) | 4.0
| University of Minnesota--Twin Cities | 4.0
22. | University of Illinois--Urbana-Champaign | 3.9
| University of Texas--Austin | 3.9
24. | New York University | 3.8
25. | Emory University (GA) | 3.7
| Ohio State University--Columbus | 3.7
27. | CUNY Graduate School and University Center | 3.6
| Rice University (TX) | 3.6
| University of California--Davis | 3.6
| University of Maryland--College Park | 3.6
| University of Washington | 3.6
32. | University of California--Irvine | 3.5
| University of Iowa | 3.5
| Vanderbilt University (TN) | 3.5
35. | Brandeis University (MA) | 3.4
36. | Carnegie Mellon University (PA) | 3.3
| Claremont Graduate School (CA) | 3.3
| College of William and Mary (VA) | 3.3
| Georgetown University (DC) | 3.3
| University of California--San Diego | 3.3
| University of Florida | 3.3
| Washington University in St. Louis | 3.3
43. | University of California--Santa Barbara | 3.2
| University of Rochester (NY) | 3.2
45. | Michigan State University | 3.1
| Pennsylvania State University--University Park | 3.1
| SUNY--Stony Brook | 3.1
| University of Arizona | 3.1
| University of Colorado--Boulder | 3.1
| University of Georgia | 3.1
| University of Illinois--Chicago | 3.1
| University of Kansas | 3.1
| University of Notre Dame (IN) | 3.1
| University of Pittsburgh | 3.1
55. | Binghamton University (NY) | 3.0
| Tulane University (LA) | 3.0
| University of Massachusetts--Amherst | 3.0
| University of Missouri--Columbia | 3.0
| University of Southern California | 3.0
60. | Boston College | 2.9
| Boston University | 2.9
| Purdue University--West Lafayette (IN) | 2.9
| University of California--Riverside | 2.9
| University of California--Santa Cruz | 2.9
| University of Connecticut | 2.9
| University of Delaware | 2.9
| University of New Mexico | 2.9
68. | Arizona State University | 2.8
| Louisiana State University--Baton Rouge | 2.8
| Ohio University | 2.8
| Texas A&M University--College Station | 2.8
| University of Oregon | 2.8
| University of South Carolina--Columbia | 2.8
74. | Fordham University (NY) | 2.7
| George Washington University (DC) | 2.7
| Syracuse University (NY) | 2.7
| Tufts University (MA) | 2.7
| University of Kentucky | 2.7
| University of Nebraska--Lincoln | 2.7
80. | American University (DC) | 2.6
| George Mason University (VA) | 2.6
| Temple University (PA) | 2.6
| University of Utah | 2.6
84. | Case Western Reserve University (OH) | 2.5
| SUNY--Albany | 2.5
| University of Hawaii--Manoa | 2.5
| University of Oklahoma | 2.5
| University of Tennessee--Knoxville | 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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