<p>^ Moreover, the ranking cited in #10 is a graduate program ranking based entirely on subject peer assessments. Even if they do have some (or even considerable) validity as graduate program rankings, they don’t necessarily apply perfectly to undergraduate programs. A graduate program that is large and highly productive in research output might garner strong peer assessments, yet at the undergraduate level feature large classes taught frequesntly by grad students (and seldom by the star faculty whose work jacks up the strong peer assessments). </p>
<p>A more robust graduate program ranking than USNWR is the NRC/Chronicle ranking. [NRC</a> Rankings Overview: Psychology - Faculty - The Chronicle of Higher Education](<a href=“NRC Rankings Overview: Psychology”>NRC Rankings Overview: Psychology) Unfortunately, this ranking is more complex and harder to interpret. Schools with many high component scores include Harvard, Princeton, Stanford, and Wisconsin. An older (and simpler) NRC ranking was done in the early 1990s ([NRC</a> Rankings in Each of 41 Areas](<a href=“http://www.stat.tamu.edu/~jnewton/nrc_rankings/nrc41.html#area40]NRC”>http://www.stat.tamu.edu/~jnewton/nrc_rankings/nrc41.html#area40))</p>