<p>What is your personal opinion about the top 10 best graduate schools in the USA?</p>
<p>Heres what I think:</p>
<li>Stanford</li>
<li>Harvard</li>
<li>Columbia</li>
<li>University of Chicago</li>
<li>University of Pennsylavania</li>
<li>Cornell University</li>
<li>University of Michigan</li>
<li>Yale</li>
<li>UCLA</li>
<li>Duke</li>
</ol>
<p>Um, I belive UC Berkeley is somewhere on that list</p>
<p>I am not a fan of berkeley at all, but Berkeley may be THE best overall graduate school.</p>
<p>Yeah, Berkeley should definitely be above Columbia, at least.</p>
<p>And what about MIT?</p>
<p>in depends on the subject area. UW-Madison is strong in the science realm but it isn't good for law school. So i think it's really useless.</p>
<p>no, we're talking OVERALL imiracle911.... UW-Madison is relatively weak overall in graduate school programs. Michigan or Berkeley, on the other hand, have many top 10 programs and are strong in just about every discipline....</p>
<p>well ok but does that matter? i don't care if the overall rank is low if my grad school has a high rank for the subject i'm gonna study. I'm just saying so what if the general is good? R u gonna do all the grad schools there? No. i'm just wondering.</p>
<p>yea i understand your point. obviously you should go to the school that excels in your field of interest... i think the OP is trying to gather a ranking of the top 10 overall graduate schools</p>
<p>Stanford, Berkeley, and Harvard. Honorable mentions include MIT, Columbia, Cornell, and Michigan.</p>
<p>Chicago is up there too</p>
<p>at the VERY VERY top...</p>
<p>For graduate sciences: MIT, Berkeley, Stanford, Caltech, Harvard</p>
<p>For graduate social sciences/humanities: Harvard, Princeton, Berkeley, Yale, Stanford</p>
<p>You'll see those schools ranked very highly (top 5) across almost every field in their respective academic category (sciences or social sciences). of course, there's a handful of very good ones also (cornell, chicago, columbia, michigan, etc.) that are just right beneath my lists (top 10 across many fields), but the schools on my lists are the stars.</p>
<p>[ol]
[<em>]Princeton
[</em>]Stanford
[<em>]MIT
[</em>]UC Berkeley
[<em>]Harvard
[</em>]Chicago
[<em>]Columbia
[</em>]Cornell
[<em>]Michigan
[</em>]UCLA
[/ol]</p>
<ol>
<li>Stanford</li>
<li>Berkeley
2.Harvard</li>
<li>Unknown</li>
</ol>
<p>In all honesty, the only university in America that has all top-5 ranked graduate programs (ALL OF THEM, hence 100%) is UC Berkeley. Stanford is second with 94% of its programs ranked in the top 5.</p>
<p>Not that I'm biased or anything, but it's the truth. </p>
<p>Princeton first? Yeah, right. And Cornell up there? Are you guys serious or kidding. And to the original poster, Columbia is number 3? WHAT!!! </p>
<p>You guys have got to be kidding me.</p>
<p>Edit: Please research graduate schools prior to commenting. Thanks.</p>
<p>TOTALLY depends on the program. my experience at an ivy for grad school was extremely disappointing. im applying again for my doctorate, and the only ivies on the top 20 list for my program are yale and penn.</p>
<p>UW is NOT weak in overall grad programs. It is in the top 12 overall.</p>
<p>The Top 25 Research Universities in the U.S., 2002-2003 based on the depth and breadth of academic quality of programs
# of programs in
top 5 top 10 top 15 top 25
1.
Stanford University (66)
15
2
0
0 </p>
<ol>
<li><p>University of California , Berkeley (59)
12
3
1
0 </p></li>
<li><p>Harvard University (54)
9
5
0
3 </p></li>
<li><p>University of Michigan , Ann Arbor (49)
7
3
5
2 </p></li>
<li><p>Princeton University (48)
6
6
3
0 </p></li>
<li><p>Massachussetts Institute of Technology (43)
9
1
2
0 </p></li>
<li><p>Columbia University (40)
3
5
6
1 </p></li>
<li><p>Yale University (40)
5
4
2
5 </p></li>
<li><p>University of Chicago (39)
5
4
2
3 </p></li>
<li><p>Cornell University (38)
0
8
6
2 </p></li>
<li><p>University of California , Los Angeles (37)
1
5
7
4 </p></li>
<li><p>University of Wisconsin , Madison (34)
1
5
5
5 </p></li>
<li><p>California Institute of Technology (33)
6
2
1
0 </p></li>
<li><p>University of Texas , Austin (26)
0
2
7
6 </p></li>
<li><p>University of Illinois , Urbana-Champaign (24)
3
2
0
7 </p></li>
<li><p>University of Pennsylvania (23)
0
4
2
6 </p></li>
<li><p>Johns Hopkins University (22)
2
2
2
4 </p></li>
<li><p>Duke University (21)
1
2
3
5</p></li>
</ol>
<p>When you say graduate school, are you also talking about professional schools? If so, then Berkeley unfortunately drops down a bit because of a lack of a med-school and relatively weaker (although still quite strong) other professional schools. Harvard then moves up quite a bit, probably overtaking Stanford (mostly because Harvard Medical School is better than Stanford Medical School). Also, Penn. Michigan, and Columbia begin to make stronger showings.</p>
<p>You can't talk about overall graduate schools as you would with undergraduate. Grad schools are based on the strength of individual majors. The question is what grad school is best for applied math, computer science, graphic design, law, medicine etc.</p>
<p>May I ask why Princeton is #1 in post #12? :confused:</p>
<p>barrons: that is a ranking of "research universities", not grad schools...</p>
<p>Academic Graudate Schools
1. Stanford
2. Berkeley
3. Harvard
4. Princeton
5. UMichigan</p>
<p>Professional Schools
1. Harvard
2. Stanford
3. Penn
4. Hopkins
5. MIT</p>