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Rankings Index • About the Rankings • Premium Online Edition • Log out Physics Specialties: Atomic/Molecular/Optical/Plasma (New! Ranked in 2002*)
1. | Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2. | University of Colorado–Boulder
3. | Stanford University (CA)
4. | Harvard University (MA)
5. | University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
6. | University of Rochester (NY)
7. | University of California–Berkeley
8. | University of Texas–Austin
9. | California Institute of Technology
10. | Princeton University (NJ)
11. | University of Washington
12. | University of Arizona
13. | University of California–Los Angeles
14. | Georgia Institute of Technology
| Kansas State University
| Rice University (TX)
| University of Maryland–College Park
| University of Virginia
*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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