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.