<p>Yes, this might be an odd question, but I'm curious.</p>
<p>There is no single best. They are all excellent! However, Yale is known for liberal arts,while Cornell is specifically known for science and especially engineering. Princeton is well known for math and science such as physics. I can't speak for Brown or Dartmouth. Harvard tend to be good at everything ,but they are Harvard</p>
<p>Cornell, Princeton and Harvard (less than the other two) are known for sciences. Columbia and Penn for huge professional school programs, as well as being the largest Ivies. Brown and Dartmouth are the liberal arts Ivies.</p>
<p>Harvard sucks for engineering !</p>
<p>Science is a very broad term. Do you mean Engineering or Science (Biology, Chemistry and Physics)? As Rtksyg so elequently put it, Harvard isn't exactly that good in Engineering. So, here is a breakdown:</p>
<p>Engineering:</p>
<h1>1 Cornell</h1>
<h1>2 Princeton</h1>
<p>big drop</p>
<h1>3 Columbia</h1>
<h1>4 Penn</h1>
<h1>5 Harvard</h1>
<p>big drop
Brown, Dartmouth and Yale are not that good in Engineering.</p>
<p>Sciences (Biology, Chemistry, Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics):</p>
<h1>1 Harvard</h1>
<h1>2 Cornell and Princeton</h1>
<h1>4 Columbia and Yale</h1>
<h1>6 Penn</h1>
<p>Brown and Dartmouth aren't that good in the sciences.</p>
<p>"Columbia and Penn for huge professional school programs, as well as being the largest Ivies. Brown and Dartmouth are the liberal arts Ivies." Maybe at the grad level this is true of Columbia, but at the undergrad level, it's very un-preprofessional, probably most like Brown in that respect.</p>
<p>Princeton may be higher than both Cornell and Harvard in some sciences. In math, Princeton has always been reknown as top notch. In physics...well.... they had people like Albert Einstein teaching there and had graduates like Feynman et al..</p>
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<p>It depends on what you want to study. </p>
<p>Sorry to plug my school alot, but Cornell really is great for any life science.</p>
<p>Sorry...</p>
<p>Specifically I'm asking about biology, biochemistry, or biomedical engineering. Or anything pre-med and biology related.</p>
<p>You should consider the West Coast for science schools. In my opinion they are better... but who knows I'm not an expert.</p>
<p>Cornell is awesome for life sciences. Whoever said that above.</p>
<p>Brown has kick-ass sciences programs, especially in the life sciences.</p>
<p>"Brown has kick-ass sciences programs"...yeah, but it's an arts school overall. The science professors aren't the same caliber as the science Ivies. They're more on par with Dartmouth professors.</p>
<p>What? Are you crazy? Dartmouth has excellent science programs!</p>
<p>Look seriously at Yale for bio. A cottage industry in bioengineering has been built up around the campus and is supporting a good deal of the research. Matter of fact, such research is going for in resusitating New Haven, much like Silicon Valley & Stanford.</p>
<p>Xanatos, when I said that Dartmouth was weak in the sciences, I meant relatively speaking. Obviously, Dartmouth is strong in the absolute sense, but the OP was asking about sciences specifically. I can think of 20 universities I would recommend over Dartmouth for the sciences. Schools like:</p>
<p>California Institute of Technology
Carnegie Mellon University
Columbia University
Cornell University
Duke University
Harvard University
Johns Hopkins University
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Northwestern University
Princeton University
Rice University
Stanford University
University of California-Berkeley
University of California-Los Angeles
University of California-San Diego
University of Chicago
University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign
University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
University of Pennsylvania
University of Texas-Austin
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Washington University-St Louis
Yale University</p>
<p>Alexandre - Do you know which schools would be great for undergraduate biomedical research, or just for biology / biochemistry in general?</p>
<p>Stanford, John Hopkins, UCSD, MIT</p>
<p>Brown's got the #10 Comp Sci program in the country</p>
<p>If this is a serious question, one issue you might look at is the availability of graduate level courses in the science you'll major in and whether you'll be able to take a graduate course or two by your senior year. Another aspect you might look at is whether there are people doing research in your area. The issue is not just whether you get to work with a professor, but whether there are professors still actively engaged in the field.</p>