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USNWR 2009 Graduate School Rankings

Want to come to the US to study? Well, here's how some programs have been ranked. Don't concentrate too much on these rankings - only one person can tell if a school is right for you, and that's you yourself!

Let me know if there's a subject you want to know the rankings for. Also, they have specific information about the Business, Education, Law, Engineering, and Medical Schools of most universities, so if you want information about a specific school, I can tell you that as well.

I just added the National Research Council rankings of a few subject areas that aren't represented by the USNWR. Also, there was a 1994 ranking of music schools that I added as best I could (it is not online, but parts are on Wikipedia). Music school rankings are generally not well regarded because of how specialized music schools are, but I wanted to be inclusive of all programs so I added them.

Professional Schools

Business Schools
1 Harvard
1 Stanford
3 U Penn
4 MIT
4 Northwestern
4 U Chicago
7 Dartmouth
7 UC Berkeley
9 Columbia
10 NYU
11 UCLA
12 U Michigan Ann Arbor
13 Yale
14 Cornell
14 Duke
14 UVA
17 CMU
18 UT Austin
19 UNC Chapel Hill
20 IU Bloomington

Business Specialties - Executive MBA
1 UPenn
2 UChicago
3 Northwestern
4 Duke
5 Columbia

Business Specialties - Finance
1 UPenn
2 UChicago
3 NYU
4 Columbia
5 Stanford

Business Specialties - International
1 Thunderbird School of Global Management (AZ)
2 U of SC
3 UPenn
4 UMichigan
5 Duke

Education Schools
1 Stanford
2 Vanderbilt
3 UCLA
4 Columbia Teacher's College
5 U of Oregon
6 Harvard
7 UC Berkeley
7 U of Washington
9 U Michigan Ann Arbor
10 UPenn
10 UT Austin
12 Northwestern
12 U Wisconsin Madison
14 Michigan State
14 NYU
16 Ohio State
17 U of Minnesota Twin Cities
18 Boston College
19 IU Bloomington
20 Johns Hopkins

Engineering Schools
1 MIT
2 Stanford
3 UC Berkeley
4 Georgia Tech
5 U of Illinois Urbana Champaign
6 Caltech
7 CMU
8 USC
9 Cornell
9 U of Michigan Ann Arbor
11 UC San Diego
11 UT Austin
13 Texas A&M
13 UCLA
15 Purdue
15 U of Wisconsin Madison
17 U of Maryland College Park
18 Princeton
19 UC Santa Barbara
20 Northwestern

Engineering Specialties - Aerospace
1 MIT
2 Caltech
2 Stanford
4 Georgia Tech
5 Purdue
5 UMichigan

Engineering Specialties - Biomedical
1 Johns Hopkins
2 Georgia Tech
2 UC San Diego
4 Duke
5 U of Washington

Engineering Specialties - Chemical
1 Caltech
1 MIT
1 UC Berkeley
4 U of Minnesota - Twin Cities
5 Stanford
5 U of Wisconsin Madison

Engineering Specialties - Civil
1 UC Berkeley
1 U of Illinois Urbana Champaign
3 Stanford
4 MIT
4 UT Austin

Engineering Specialties - Electrical
1 MIT
2 Stanford
2 UC Berkeley
4 U of Illinois Urbana Champaign
5 Georgia Tech
6 Georgia Tech
6 UMichigan

Engineering Specialties - Mechanical
1 MIT
2 U of Illinois Urbana Champaign
3 Northwestern
3 UC Berkeey
5 UC Santa Barbara

Engineering Specialties - Nuclear
1 UMichigan
2 MIT
2 U of Wisconsin Madison
4 Texas A&M
5 Penn State
5 UC Berkeley

Medical Schools
1 Harvard
2 Johns Hopkins
3 Washington University in St Louis
4 UPenn
5 UC San Francisco
6 Duke
6 U of Washington
8 Stanford
9 UCLA
9 Yale
11 Columbia
11 U of Michigan Ann Arbor
13 Baylor College
14 UC San Diego
14 U of Pittsburgh
16 UChicago
16 Vanderbilt
18 Cornell
19 UNC Chapel Hill
20 Emory
20 Northwestern

Medical Specialties - AIDS
1 UC San Francisco
2 Johns Hopkins
3 Harvard
4 U Washington
5 U of Alabama Birmingham

Medical Specialties - Internal Medicine
1 Harvard
2 Johns Hopkins
3 UC San Francisco
4 UPenn
5 Duke

Medical Specialties - Pediatrics
1 Harvard
2 UPenn
3 U of Cincinnati
4 Johns Hopkins
5 Baylor

Public Affairs
1 Syracuse
2 Harvard
2 IU Bloomington
4 Princeton
4 U of Georgia
6 UC Berkeley
7 U of Kansas
7 UMichigan
7 USC
10 Carnegie Mellon
10 Duke
10 NYU
10 UChicago
14 American University
14 Columbia
14 Georgetown
14 GWU
14 SUNY Albany
14 UCLA
14 U of Minnesota - Twin Cities
14 UNC Chapel Hill
14 UT Austin
14 U of Washington
14 U of Wisconsin Madison

Law Schools
1 Yale
2 Harvard
2 Stanford
4 Columbia
5 NYU
6 UC Berkeley
7 UChicago
7 UPenn
9 Northwestern
9 U of Michigan Ann Arbor
9 UVA
12 Cornell
12 Duke
14 Georgetown
15 Vanderbilt
16 UCLA
16 UT Austin
18 USC
19 Washington University in St Louis
20 GWU

Law Specialties - Health
1 St Louis University
2 U of Houston
3 U of Maryland
4 Case Western
4 Seton Hall University

Law Specialties - International
1 NYU
2 Columbia
3 Harvard
4 Georgetown
5 American
5 Yale

Masters of Fine Arts
1 Rhode Island School of Design
2 Yale
3 School of the Art Institute of Chicago
4 Cranbrook Academy
4 Maryland Institute
4 Virginia Commonwealth University
7 California Institute
7 CMU
7 UCLA
10 Alfred University

Master of Music (1994 Top 3 ranked)
1 Juilliard
1 Eastman School
1 Indiana - Jacobs School of Music

Music Schools (broad, general groupings)
Group I.
Juilliard School
Curtis Institute
Colburn School
Rice University

Group IA.
Manhattan School
New England Conservatory
Indiana University
Boston University

Group II.
Peabody Institute
USC
CIM

Group III.
UCLA
Oberlin
CCM
Boston Conservatory
Mannes

Group IV.
NYU
NC Arts

Music Schools/Universities (based on selectivity only)
1 Juilliard (6%)
2 Curtis (11%)
3 UCLA (University - 24%; Music department - No data)
4 Rice University - Shepherd School (University - 25%; Music school - No data)
4 USC - Thornton School (University - 25%; Music school - No data)
5 New England Conservatory (29%)
6 Oberlin College - Conservatory (College - 31%; Music school - No data)
7 Cleveland Institute (32%)
8 Berklee College of Music (34%)
8 Boston Conservatory (34%)
8 Mannes College of Music (34%)
11 Manhattan School of Music (37%)
11 NYU - School of Music (University - 37%; Music school - No data)
13 North Carolina School of the Arts (44%)
14 Peabody Institute at Johns Hopkins (54%)
15 Boston University - College of Fine Arts (University - 59%; Music school - No data)
16 Indiana University - Jacobs School (University - 70%; Music school - No data)

Departments

Algebra/Number Theory
1 Princeton
2 Harvard
3 UCB
4 UMichigan
5 UChicago

Anthropology
1 UChicago
1 U Michigan
3 UC Berkeley
4 Harvard
5 U Arizona
6 UPenn
7 Stanford
8 Yale
9 UCLA
10 UC San Diego
11 U Florida
12 U Texas
13 NYU

Art History
1 NYU
2 Columbia
3 UC Berkeley
4 Harvard
5 Yale
6 Princeton
7 Johns Hopkins
8 Northwestern
9 UPenn
10 UChicago
11 U Michigan
12 CUNY
13 UCLA

Atomic Physics
1 U of Colorado Boulder
2 MIT
3 Harvard
4 Stanford
5 U of Maryland

Astrophysics
1 Caltech
2 Princeton
3 UC Berkeley
4 Harvard
5 UChicago
6 UC Santa Cruz
7 U Arizona
8 MIT
9 Cornell
10 U Texas
11 U Hawaii Manoa
12 U Colorado
13 U Illinois

Biology
1 Stanford
2 MIT
2 UC Berkeley
4 Caltech
4 Harvard
6 Johns Hopkins
7 Rockefeller University
7 Scripps Research Institute
7 UC San Francisco
7 Washington University in St Louis
7 Yale
12 Cornell
12 Duke
12 Princeton

Biological Chemisty
1 UC San Francisco
2 Stanford
3 MIT
4 UC Berkeley
5 Harvard
6 Yale
7 Caltech
8 Wisconsin
9 UC San Diego
10 Johns Hopkins
11 Columbia
12 U Colorado
13 Washington St. Louis

Chemistry
1 Caltech
1 MIT
1 Stanford
1 UC Berkeley
5 Harvard
5 Scripps Research Institute
7 U of Illinois Urbana Champaign
7 U of Wisconsin Madison
9 Cornell
9 Northwestern
11 Columbia
12 UCLA
12 UChicago
12 UT Austin
13 Yale

Classics
1 Harvard
2 UC Berkeley
3 U Michigan
4 Princeton
5 Yale
6 Brown
7 UChicago
8 U Texas
9 UCLA
10 Columbia
11 UNC
12 Cornell
13 UPenn

Computer Science
1 MIT
1 Stanford
1 UC Berkeley
4 CMU
5 U of Illinois Urbana Champaign
6 Cornell
6 Princeton
6 U of Washington
9 Georgia Tech
9 UT Austin
11 Caltech
11 U of Wisconsin Madison
13 UCLA
13 U of Maryland College Park
13 UMichigan

Cosmology
1 Caltech
2 Princeton
3 UChicago
4 UCB
5 Stanford

Earth Sciences
1 Caltech
2 MIT
2 Stanford
4 UCB
5 Columbia
5 UMichigan
7 Penn State
8 U of Arizona
9 Harvard
9 UT Austin
11 Princeton
11 UCLA
11 U of Washington
11 Yale
15 Cornell
15 UCSD
15 UChicago
15 U of Wisconsin Madison
19 Brown
19 UCSC
21 Johns Hopkins
21 UCD
21 UCSB
21 U of Minnesota Twin Cities
25 Rice
25 U of Colorado Boulder
25 Washington University St Louis

Economics
1 MIT
1 UChicago
3 Harvard
3 Princeton
3 Stanford
3 UC Berkeley
7 Yale
8 Northwestern
9 UPenn
10 UC San Diego

English
1 Harvard
1 UC Berkeley
1 Yale
4 Princeton
4 Stanford
6 Cornell
6 UChicago
8 Columbia
8 Johns Hopkins
10 UCLA
10 UPenn
12 Duke
12 U of Michigan Ann Arbor
12 UVA

French
1 Yale
2 Princeton
3 Duke
4 Columbia
5 UPenn
6 Stanford
7 UC Berkeley
8 Cornell
9 UMichigan
10 UC Irvine
11 U Wisconsin
12 NYU
13 UVA

Geography
1 Penn State
2 U Wisconsin
3 U Minnesota
4 UC Santa Barbara
5 Ohio State
6 Syracuse
7 UC Berkeley
8 UCLA
9 Clark University
10 U Washington
11 SUNY Buffalo
12 U Colorado
13 Rutgers

Geology
1 Caltech
2 MIT
2 Stanford
4 UC Berkeley
5 Columbia
5 U of Michigan Ann Arbor
7 Penn State
8 U of Arizona
9 Harvard
9 UT Austin
11 Princeton
11 UCLA
11 U of Washington
11 Yale

German
1 UC Berkeley
2 Princeton
3 Cornell
4 Harvard
5 Yale
6 Stanford
7 Washington St. Louis
8 UVA
9 Johns Hopkins
10 U Wisconsin
11 U Minnesota
12 U Washington
13 U Texas

History
1 Harvard
2 Stanford
3 U of Michigan Ann Arbor
4 Princeton
5 UC Berkeley
5 Yale
7 UC San Diego
8 Duke
8 UChicago
10 Columbia
10 MIT
10 UCLA
11 Cornell
11 U of Wisconsin Madison
13 UNC Chapel Hill
13 UPenn

Immunology
1 Harvard
2 Stanford
3 UC San Francisco
4 Yale
5 Johns Hopkins
5 Washington University St. Louis
7 Rockefeller University
7 UPenn
9 Duke
9 U of Texas Southwestern Medical Center - Dallas

Linguistics
1 MIT
2 Stanford
3 UCLA
4 U Massachusetts
5 UPenn
6 UChicago
7 UC Berkeley
8 Ohio State
9 Cornell
10 UC Santa Cruz
11 U Texas
12 USC
13 U Arizona

Mathematics
1 Princeton
2 Harvard
2 MIT
2 Stanford
2 UC Berkeley
6 UChicago
7 Caltech
7 Yale
9 Columbia
9 NYU
9 U of Michigan Ann Arbor
12 UCLA
13 Cornell

Molecular Biology
1 Harvard
2 MIT
3 Stanford
4 UCSF
5 UCB
6 Caltech
6 Rockefeller University
8 Johns Hopkins
8 Princeton
8 Yale

Music
1 Harvard
1 UChicago
3 UC Berkeley
4 CUNY
5 Yale
6 Princeton
7 UPenn
8 Rochester
9 U Michigan
10 U Illinois
11 Cornell
12 Columbia
13 Brandeis

Neuroscience
1 UC San Diego
2 Yale
3 Harvard
4 UC San Francisco
5 Stanford
6 Columbia
7 Johns Hopkins
8 Washington St. Louis
9 UC Berkeley
10 UPenn
11 Caltech
12 U Washington
13 Rockefeller Institute

Nuclear Physics
1 MIT
2 Michigan State
3 U of Washington
4 SUNY Stony Brook
5 Yale

Paleontology
1 UChicago
2 Harvard
3 UMichigan
3 Yale
5 UCB
6 U of Kansas
7 U of Cincinnati
8 U of Iowa
9 UT Austin
10 Ohio State

Philosophy
1 Princeton
2 U Pittsburgh
3 Harvard
4 UC Berkeley
5 UCLA
6 Stanford
7 U MIchigan
8 Cornell
9 MIT
10 U Arizona
11 UChicago
12 Rutgers
13 Brown

Plasma Physics
1 Princeton
2 MIT
2 U of Maryland
2 U of Wisconsin
5 UT Austin
6 UCLA
7 UCB
7 UCSD
9 U of Iowa
10 U of Colorado

Political Science
1 Harvard
2 Stanford
3 U of Michigan Ann Arbor
4 Princeton
5 UC Berkeley
5 Yale
7 UC San Diego
8 Duke
8 UChicago
10 Columbia
10 MIT
10 UCLA
13 Ohio State
13 UNC Chapel Hill
13 Rochester

Political Theory
1 Harvard
2 Princeton
3 UChicago
4 Yale
5 UCB

Psychology
1 Stanford
2 UC Berkeley
3 U of Michigan Ann Arbor
4 Yale
5 Harvard
5 Princeton
5 UCLA
5 U of Illinois Urbana Champaign
9 CMU
9 Harvard
9 U of Wisconsin Madison
12 MIT
12 Stanford
12 UT Austin
12 U of Minnesota Twin Cities

Physics
1 MIT
1 Stanford
3 Caltech
3 Harvard
3 Princeton
3 UC Berkeley
7 Cornell
8 UChicago
8 U of Illinois Urbana Champaign
10 UC Santa Barbara
11 Columbia
11 Yale
13 U of Maryland College Park
13 U of Michigan Ann Arbor
13 UPenn

Quantum Physics
1 MIT
2 Harvard
3 Caltech
4 Princeton
4 Stanford
4 U of Colorado

Religion
1 Chicago
2 Harvard
3 Princeton
4 Duke
5 Emory
6 UVA
7 Vanderbilt
8 Princeton
9 UC Santa Barbara
10 UPenn
11 Jewish Theological Seminary
12 Notre Dame
13 Hebrew Union

Sociology
1 UChicago
2 U Wisconsin
3 UC Berkeley
4 U Michigan
5 UCLA
6 UNC
7 Harvard
8 Stanford
9 Northwestern
10 U Washington
11 UPenn
12 IU
13 Princeton

Spanish
1 Columbia
2 Duke
3 Brown
4 Princeton
5 UVA
6 UPenn
7 U Wisconsin
8 Cornell
9 UC Berkeley
10 Harvard
11 U Kansas
12 U Texas
13 U Michigan

Statistics
1 Stanford
2 UC Berkeley
3 Cornell
4 UChicago
5 U Washington
6 Harvard
7 U Wisconsin
8 Purdue
9 UNC
10 UCLA
11 U Minnesota
12 Iowa State
13 Texas A&M

String Theory/Elementary Particles
1 Caltech
1 MIT
3 Harvard
4 Princeton
5 UCB
6 Stanford
7 UCSB
7 UChicago
9 Cornell
10 Columbia

Topology
1 UCB
2 Princeton
3 Harvard
4 UChicago
5 MIT

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Reply 1

arkbar

Yo, are there geography rankings,or is that just too obscure a subject :p:

Reply 2

DrAtomic

Sorry, no geography. It's not a common area of study in the US.

Architecture?

Architecture is kind of its own thing - you know, it's a professional degree so it isn't listed in US News & World Report.

What I can tell you, is how different design specialties are ranked if that would be of any use.

Graphic Design
1 Rhode Island School of Design
2 Cranbrook Academy
2 Yale
4 Virginia Commonwealth Univ
5 CMU
6 Maryland Institute

Industrial Design
1 Art Center College of Design
2 Rhode Island School of Design
3 CMU
4 Pratt
5 Ohio State
6 Univ of Cincinnati

Interior Design
1 Pratt
1 Rhode Island School of Design
3 Univ of Cincinnati
4 NY School of Interior Design

Reply 5

devil09

bananamoonbeam, the most reputable architecture ranking is put out by Design Intelligence. You have to pay for the full ranking, but I found an abbreviated version:

http://www.architectmagazine.com/industry-news.asp?sectionID=1006&articleID=602885

Yo, are there geography rankings,or is that just too obscure a subject

The NRC ranked UCSB as #4, if that's what you're wondering. The new and improved (and much anticipated) NRC rankings will be out in September. :biggrin:

Reply 6

Champagne Breakfast

I find it truly amazing that Columbia does not break top 10 in Economics.

Reply 7

arkbar

I was vaguely wondering about UCSB, but also about where places like UWM and Brown were :smile:

Reply 8

DrAtomic

Champagne Breakfast

I find it truly amazing that Columbia does not break top 10 in Economics.

The complete economics rankings are as follows:

1 MIT
1 Chicago
3 Harvard
3 Princeton
3 Stanford
3 UC Berkeley
7 Yale
8 Northwestern
9 UPenn
10 UC San Diego
11 Columbia
11 UCLA
11 UMichigan Ann Arbor
11 U of Wisconsin Madison
15 NYU
15 U of Minnesota Twin Cities
17 Caltech
17 Cornell
19 Rochester
20 CMU
21 Brown
21 Duke
21 U of Maryland College Park
24 Johns Hopkins
25 BU
25 UT Austin

Reply 9

fais

ooh, is there a ranking for Computer Science? (or does that fall into Engineering? :/)

Reply 10

DrAtomic

fais, sure there is:

Computer Science
1 MIT
1 Stanford
1 UC Berkeley
4 CMU
5 U of Illinois Urbana Champaign
6 Cornell
6 Princeton
6 U of Washington
9 Georgia Tech
9 UT Austin
11 Caltech
11 U of Wisconsin Madison
13 UCLA
13 U of Maryland College Park
13 UMichigan
16 Columbia
16 Harvard
16 UC San Diego
19 Purdue
20 Brown
20 Duke
20 Rice
20 U of Massachusetts Amherst
20 UNC Chapel Hill
20 USC
20 Yale

Computer Science - Artificial Intelligence
1 MIT
2 CMU
3 Stanford
4 UC Berkeley
5 UT Austin
5 U of Washington

Computer Science - Programming Language
1 CMU
2 UC Berkeley
3 Stanford
4 MIT
5 Cornell

Computer Science - Systems
1 UC Berkeley
2 MIT
3 Stanford
4 CMU
5 U of Washington

Computer Science - Theory
1 UC Berkeley
2 MIT
3 Stanford
4 Cornell
4 Princeton

Reply 11

ray564k

Is there a ranking for international relations?

Reply 12

DrAtomic

No, but they do have international politics. I don't know why they don't rank IR.

International Politics
1 Harvard
2 Stanford
3 Columbia
3 Princeton
5 UMichigan
6 UC San Diego
7 Duke
7 UC Berkeley
9 UChicago
10 NYU

Reply 13

forpolarbears

Foreign Policy does a good IR ranking. I think I may have deleted it though.

Thanks for the info Cosmos!

Reply 14

Chengora

forpolarbears

Foreign Policy does a good IR ranking. I think I may have deleted it though.

Thanks for the info Cosmos!

It's at http://www.foreignpolicy.com/story/cms.php?story_id=3299. However, it's also locked. So, Ph.D.s:

1 Harvard University
2 Princeton University
3 Columbia University
4 Stanford University
5 University of Chicago
6 Yale University
7 University of California, Berkeley
8 University of Michigan
9 University of California, San Diego
10 Cornell University
11 Mass. Institute of Technology
12 Johns Hopkins University
13 Georgetown University
14 Duke University
15 Ohio State University
16 New York University
17 University of Minnesota
18 University of California, Los Angeles
19 Tufts University
20 University of Rochester

And Master's:

1 Georgetown University
2 Johns Hopkins University
3 Harvard University
4 Tufts University
5 Columbia University
6 Princeton University
7 George Washington University
8 American University
9 University of Denver
10 Syracuse University
11 University of California, San Diego
12 University of Chicago
12 Yale University
14 Stanford University
15 University of Pittsburgh
16 University of California, Berkeley
16 University of Maryland
18 Mass. Institute of Technology
18 Monterey Institute of Int’l Studies
20 University of Southern California

Reply 15

tami

Cosmos

i'm pretty sure that this refers to IR otherwise it doesn't make sense because it is a major subfield in political science.

Reply 16

DrAtomic

I just added:

Art History
Anthropology
Astrophysics
Classics
French
German
Geography
Linguistics
Music
Philosophy
Religion
Spanish
Biological Chemistry
Neuroscience
Statistics

Reply 17

Shadey

hiya mate,

have you got any undergrad rankings? just got into berkeley and i amnt sure how good it is in terms of Social Sciences

Cheers

Shadey

Reply 18

DrAtomic

Nope, sorry, I don't.

I don't think that undergraduate departments are ranked. Are they? I didn't think they were...

If the resources are there for the graduate division, chances are that they're there for undergrads, too, so you can look at the grad rankings and get some general idea of the undergrad dept.