NRC Rankings in Physics
1 Harvard 4.91
2 Princeton 4.89
3 MIT 4.87
4 Cal Berkeley 4.87
5 Cal Tech 4.81
6 Cornell 4.75
7 Chicago 4.69
8 Illinois 4.66
9 Stanford 4.53
10 Cal Santa Barbara 4.43
11 Texas 4.33
12 Columbia 4.25
13 Yale 4.21
14 Washington 4.20
15 UCLA 4.18
16 Cal San Diego 4.10
17 Penn 4.09
18 Maryland 4.02
19 Michigan 3.96
20 Rutgers 3.82
21 Wisconsin 3.79
22 SUNY Stony Brook 3.76
23 Minnesota 3.76
24 Ohio State 3.75
25 Rochester 3.65
26 Brown 3.60
27 Carnegie Mellon 3.56
28 Johns Hopkins 3.51
29 Rockefeller 3.46
30 Purdue 3.44
31 Michigan State 3.43
32 Indiana 3.37
33 Cal Irvine 3.37
34 CUNY 3.36
35 Florida 3.35
36 Northwestern 3.31
37 Colorado 3.30
38 Boston University 3.28
39 Pittsburgh 3.27
40 Rice 3.25
41 Florida State 3.25
42 Duke 3.25
43 Brandeis 3.25
44 Virginia 3.23
45 Arizona 3.23
46 Texas A&M 3.22
47 Cal Santa Cruz 3.22
48 Southern Cal 3.17
49 Iowa State 3.17
50 North Carolina State 3.16
51 Washington (St. Louis) 3.15
52 North Carolina 3.14
53 NYU 3.14
54 Penn State 3.08
55 Notre Dame 3.06
56 Vanderbilt 3.04
57 Utah 3.04
58 Syracuse 3.04
59 Oregon 3.03
60 Houston 3.02
61 Georgia Tech 3.02
62 William & Mary 3.00
63 Massachusetts 2.97
64 Case Western 2.96
65 Northeastern 2.91
66 Cal Davis 2.89
67 RPI 2.88
68 Cal Riverside 2.88
69 Arizona State 2.87
70 VPI 2.86
71 Tennessee 2.83
72 Iowa 2.79
73 Delaware 2.76
74 Georgia 2.73
75 Oregon State 2.69
76 Tufts 2.66
77 Kent State 2.65
78 Nebraska 2.64
79 LSU 2.64
80 Drexel 2.62
81 Hawaii Manoa 2.61
82 Ohio 2.60
83 Dartmouth College 2.60
84 South Carolina 2.58
85 SUNY Albany 2.58
86 Illinois Tech 2.56
87 Illinois Chicago 2.56
88 Alaska 2.50
89 Wisconsin Milwaukee 2.49
90 Texas Dallas 2.48
91 Kentucky 2.48
92 Kansas 2.46
93 Temple 2.43
94 Oklahoma 2.42
95 New Hampshire 2.41
96 Akron 2.40
97 Lehigh 2.39
98 Missouri 2.38
99 Kansas State 2.33
100 Connecticut 2.33
101 Cincinnati 2.33
102 Catholic University 2.33
103 North Texas 2.30
104 Colorado State 2.30
105 Montana State 2.27
106 Colorado School of Mines 2.25
107 SUNY Buffalo 2.24
108 Stevens Tech 2.23
109 Brigham Young 2.21
110 New Mexico State 2.19
111 Maine 2.18
112 Clarkson 2.13
113 Alabama Huntsville 2.13
114 Tulane 2.12
115 Arkansas 2.12
116 Texas Arlington 2.11
117 Washington State 2.10
118 Texas Tech 2.10
119 Alabama 2.08
120 Oklahoma State 2.07
121 Miami 2.03
122 Missouri Rolla 2.00
123 American 2.00
124 Massachusetts Lowell 1.92
125 Polytechnic 1.91
126 Alabama Birmingham 1.90
127 Auburn 1.88
128 Rhode Island 1.85
129 Clark 1.82
130 Boston College 1.80
131 Old Dominion 1.70
132 Denver 1.61
133 Oakland 1.60
134 Howard 1.60
135 New Mexico Mining & Tech 1.57
136 Worcester Polytechnic Inst 1.48
137 Bryn Mawr 1.48
138 Michigan Tech 1.47
139 George Washington 1.45
140 Mississippi 1.42
141 Nevada Reno 1.31
142 Oregon Tech 1.27
143 Puerto Rico Rio Piedras 1.22
144 Baylor 1.13
145 TCU 0.67
146 Florida Inst of Tech 0.46