<p>Could someone please post the US News Rankings for Chemistry? Thanks in advanced.</p>
<p>for grad schools? there arent rankings for undergrad departments</p>
<p>Yeah, I know there are none for undergrad. I'd like to see the grad school rankings.</p>
<p>You should really look at rankings for desired specialization in chemistry (organic, inorganic, etc.) because these differ significantly from general ranking. Here is general ranking for 2002:</p>
<p>UC Berkeley
Caltech
Harvard
MIT
Stanford
Scripps
U of Illinois-UC
Columbia
Cornell
U of Wisconsin-Madison
UCLA
Northwestern
Princeton
U of Chicago
Yale
Penn State-Univ Park
Purdue
Univ of Penn
UCSD
Univ of Michigan-Ann Arbor
Ohio State
U of Colorado
U of NC-Chapel Hill</p>
<p>In organic chemistry:
Harvard
TSRI
UC Berkeley
MIT
Caltech
Stanford
Columbia
U of Illinois-UC
U of Wisconsin-Madison
U of Penn</p>
<p>these rankings are approximate -- for example, you can definitely say that MIT is one of top 5 schools, and Cornell is one of top 10, but you cannot tell, for example, if Harvard is better than MIT -- that depends on what you're looking for in a specific program</p>
<p>each school had more weight in one of the areas of specialization in chemistry -- for example, Northwestern is big on inorganic chemistry while U of Wisconsin-Madison and Scripps have a lot of chemistry with somewhat of a biological flavor to it -- Caltech is known for producing a lot of chemistry professors (UCB and Harvard i believe are next on that list) while Scripps has a feel to it of a biotech start-up (it places people mostly into industry positions after graduation) -- so depending on what your focus is and where you want to end up once you're finished, one program might be better than another for you disregarding the ranking</p>
<p>Thanks for your help. I'm not really sure what specialization I'm looking for. I kind of just want a general overview, so I can around.</p>