<p>Which colleges have the best chemistry programs, which have the best linguistics, and what's the overlap between these two.</p>
<p>I know it's a weird combination, but I'm fairly certain I want to double major (or maybe major in chem, minor in linguistics) in these two areas (what I'll do with it God only knows).</p>
<p>MIT would be the best choice for you. And Berkeley, Stanford, Harvard, Princeton, so on.</p>
<p>for linguistics-anything around Noam Chomsky, id est MIT?</p>
<p>mulsumi: Princeton doesn't have a ling program.</p>
<p>Linguistics is an interesting program (I plan to major in it), in that the schools that excel in it are all over the place: there's MIT, a top school, and there's UC Santa Cruz, a third-tier school that happens to have an excellent ling program. Here's the NRC ranking (I'm pretty sure the undergrad ling program is roughly the same quality as the grad):</p>
<p>1 MIT 4.79
2 Stanford 4.59
3 UCLA 4.56
4 Massachusetts 4.44
5 Penn 4.16
6 Chicago 3.97
7 Cal Berkeley 3.97
8 Ohio State 3.80
9 Cornell 3.78
10 Cal Santa Cruz 3.66
11 Texas 3.61
12 Southern Cal 3.58
13 Arizona 3.58
14 Cal San Diego 3.43
15 CUNY 3.41
16 Connecticut 3.36
17 Washington 3.16
18 Illinois 3.10
19 Georgetown 3.00
20 Brown 2.94
21 Harvard 2.92
22 SUNY Buffalo 2.87
23 Pittsburgh 2.83
24 SUNY Stony Brook 2.82
25 Hawaii Manoa 2.79
26 Oregon 2.68
27 Indiana 2.66
28 Delaware 2.60
29 Boston University 2.60
30 Yale 2.57
31 Michigan 2.37
32 Wisconsin 2.20
33 Colorado 2.15
34 South Carolina 1.91
35 Kansas 1.91
36 NYU 1.84
37 Florida 1.78
38 Michigan State 1.76
39 Rice 1.72
40 Texas Arlington 1.26
41 Indiana Univ Pennsylvania 0.55</p>
<p>The chemistry ranking from NRC:</p>
<p>1 Cal Berkeley 4.96
2 Cal Tech 4.94
3 Stanford 4.87
4 Harvard 4.87
5 MIT 4.86
6 Cornell 4.55
7 Columbia 4.54
8 Illinois 4.48
9 Wisconsin 4.46
10 UCLA 4.46
11 Chicago 4.46
12 Yale 4.38
13 Texas 4.28
14 Northwestern 4.23
15 Texas A&M 4.11
16 Indiana 3.99
17 North Carolina 3.97
18 Penn State 3.95
19 Cal San Diego 3.95
20 Princeton 3.92
21 Minnesota 3.89
22 Ohio State 3.87
23 Cal San Francisco 3.86
24 Purdue 3.83
25 Penn 3.78
26 Iowa State 3.76
27 Johns Hopkins 3.74
28 Washington 3.70
29 Rice 3.70
30 Florida 3.67
31 Utah 3.63
32 Rochester 3.63
33 Cal Santa Barbara 3.57
34 Pittsburgh 3.56
35 Michigan 3.53
36 Cal Irvine 3.52
37 Colorado State 3.50
38 Emory 3.37
39 Michigan State 3.35
40 Southern Cal 3.34
41 Oregon 3.31
42 Colorado 3.30
43 Virginia 3.29
44 Duke 3.28
(There are more ranked; to see them, go to <a href="http://www.stat.tamu.edu/%7Ejnewton/nrc_rankings/nrc41.html#area28%5B/url%5D">http://www.stat.tamu.edu/~jnewton/nrc_rankings/nrc41.html#area28</a>)</p>
<p>As you can see, Berkeley, MIT, Cornell, Chicago, Stanford, and UCLA seem pretty strong in both areas.</p>
<p>Gourman Report undergrad chemistry ranking:
Caltech
UC Berkeley
Harvard
MIT
Columbia
Stanford
Illimois Urbana Champaign
U Chicago
UCLA
Wisconsin Madison
Cornell
Northwestern
Princeton
Yale
Purdue
UNC Chapel Hill
Ohio State
Texas Austin
Iowa State
Indiana Bloomington
UC San Diego
Minnesota
Notre Dame
Penn State
Brown
U Rochester
Carnegie Mellon
U Penn
Rice
Michigan Ann Arbor
U Washington
Colorado Boulder
Texas A&M
USC
U Pittsburgh
U Florida
UC Riverside
dartmouth
UC Santa Barbara
UC Irvine
Johns Hopkins
UC Davis
U Utah
U Oregon
Duke
Michigan State
RPI
UVA
Florida State
Vanderbilt
Case Western
u Iowa
Georgia Tech</p>
<p>Gourman Report ranking for undergraduate linguistics</p>
<p>UCLA
U Chicago
UC Berkeley
U Penn
Cornell
UC San Diego
Yale
U Illinois Urbana Champaign
Stanford
MIT
U Michigan Ann Arbor
Indiana U Bloomington
U Wisconsin Madison
U Washington
NYU
Ohio State
U Rochester
Harvard
U Hawaii Manoa
U Kansas
Rice
U Texas Austin
U Pittsburgh
U Arizona
U Minnesota
UC Irvine
U Florida
U Iowa
U Mass Amherst
UC Santa Barbara</p>