<p>Can someone post a link to the lists of top schools in specific majors? I hear people mention a top 10 program in engineering or business but what source is there for this information?</p>
<p>US News Best Colleges has a ranked list of the top undergrad programs in engineering and business. The Online Edition will only give you the complete list if you pay for a subscription.</p>
<p>The Gourman Report has undergrad rankings by major but it is not available online. However you can search CC for threads with Gourman Report rankings. Type the name of the major and then "Gourman Report" in the search engine.</p>
<p>Rugg's Recommendations has lists of recommendations that are classified by selectivity and size for each major. Again, it is not available online.</p>
<p>A book called the "College Finder" has some unranked lists.</p>
<p>Which major are you interested in?</p>
<p>WSJ just came out with a ranking of undergrad business schools.</p>
<p>Share those rankings with us Gellino. I would like to see #2-#25. No need to tell us who #1 is! hehe!!!</p>
<p>Sorry, it was BW I was thinking of, not WSJ.</p>
<p>i like the NRC Rankings: <a href="http://www.stat.tamu.edu/%7Ejnewton/nrc_rankings/nrc41.html%5B/url%5D">http://www.stat.tamu.edu/~jnewton/nrc_rankings/nrc41.html</a></p>
<p>But NRC is more focused on grad school than undergrad, so its usefulness is somewhat limited.</p>
<p>The main focus is faculty quality. I think that is pretty important. The same people teach both grad and ug and some classes are even the same for both. It does leave the LAC's out but you can't have it all.</p>
<p>Yes, but not all professors teach undergrads well, even if they do incredible research. There is certainly some correlation, but it would be wise to take NRC rankings with a grain of salt when looking at undergraduate programs.</p>
<p>NRC report, in addition to focusing on doctorate programs, is also about 13 years old - 1995 report based on a 1993 survey. Not of no use, but understand what it is reporting.</p>
<p>This from the report regarding the survey design - </p>
<p>STUDY DESIGN
A critical step in designing a study of research-doctorate programs in the U.S. is to define the target population both to establish the boundaries of the analysis and to assure that a cost-effective procedure can be developed for collecting information about the programs included in the study. The concentration of available resources on a limited number of disciplines seemed to the committee both practical and necessary, although inevitably resulting in the exclusion of some important areas of graduate study.
Field Coverage
The committee selected fields to include in the 1993 study based on a combination of three factors:
·The number of Ph.D.s produced nationally;
·The number of programs training Ph.D.s within a particular field; and
·The average number of Ph.D.s produced per program. </p>
<p>Fields included in the study also have met a criterion of "robustness," that is, they have awarded a minimum of about 500 degrees in about 50 programs for the years 1986 to 1990.</p>
<p>Yes, it is getting a bit dated and an update is in the works. Unfortunately academics move at a slow pace and debate every item to death. That said over the years the changes in ranking are relatively small and a Top 10/20 will still likely be a top 10/20 with a few exceptions.</p>
<p>Agreed. The NRC data is quite old.</p>
<p>What rankings are you interested in?</p>
<p>Does anyone have a list for Biology?</p>
<p>Gourman Report Biology:</p>
<p>CalTech
MIT
Yale
Harvard
Wisconsin
UCSD
Berkeley
Colorado
Columbia
Stanford
U Washington
Chicago
Duke
Washington U
UCLA
Michigan
Cornell
Penn
Purdue
Indiana
UNC
Utah
Johns Hopkins
Northwestern
Princeton
UCI
Notre Dame
UCSB
Virginia
Brown
UIUC
Pitt
Vanderbilt
Oregon
SUNY-Stony Brook
U Rochester</p>
<p>A more recent ranking of top Biology departments would be the USNWR, which came out less than 2 months ago. However, again, it is a graduate ranking, so not entirely accurate for our purposes:</p>
<ol>
<li>Stanford University 4.9/5.0</li>
<li>Harvard University 4.8/5.0</li>
<li>Massachusetts Institute of Technology 4.8/5.0</li>
<li>University of California-Berkeley 4.8/5.0</li>
<li>California Institute of Technology 4.6/5.0</li>
<li>Johns Hopkins University 4.6/5.0</li>
<li>Cornell University 4.5/5.0</li>
<li>Yale University 4.5/5.0</li>
<li>Princeton University 4.4/5.0</li>
<li>University of California-San Francisco 4.4/5.0 (purely a graduate school)</li>
<li>Washington University-St Louis 4.4/5.0</li>
<li>Duke University 4.3/5.0</li>
<li>Rockefeller University 4.3/5.0 (purely a graduate school)</li>
<li>University of California-San Diego 4.3/5.0</li>
<li>University of Michigan-Ann Arbor 4.3/5.0</li>
<li>University of Wisconsin-Madison 4.3/5.0</li>
<li>University of California-Davis 4.2/5.0</li>
<li>University of Washington 4.2/5.0</li>
<li>Columbia University 4.1/5.0</li>
<li>University of Chicago 4.1/5.0</li>
<li>U. of TX Southwestern Medical Center-Dallas (purely a graduate program) 4.1/5.0</li>
<li>Baylor College of Medicine 4.0/5.0 (purely a graduate program)</li>
<li>University of California-Los Angeles 4.0/5.0</li>
<li>University of Illinoi-Urbana Champaign 3.9/5.0</li>
<li>University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill 3.9/5.0</li>
<li>University of Pennsylvania 3.9/5.0</li>
<li>University of Texas-Austin 3.9/5.0</li>
<li>Cornell University Medical School 3.8/5.0 (purely a graduate program)</li>
<li>Northwestern University 3.8/5.0</li>
<li>University of Colorado-Boulder 3.8/5.0</li>
<li>Vanderbilt University 3.8/5.0</li>
<li>Brandeis University 3.7/5.0</li>
<li>Emory University 3.7/5.0</li>
<li>Indiana University-Bloomington 3.7/5.0</li>
<li>University of California-Irvine 3.7/5.0</li>
</ol>
<p>I'm planning on being a premed, so I want 1 science major and maybe another nonscience one. For the nonscience I am thinking about Spanish or another language, political science, psychology, or maybe history. For the science I am leaning towards a genetic or molecular biology,neuroscience or just plain biology. I would be most interested in a ranking of premed programs based on MCAT scores, med school aceptances, etc.</p>
<p>Assuming grades and standardized test scores are stellar, check out the usual suspects. Harvard, Princeton, Stanford and Yale. Other excellent universities in your field includes Cal, Columbia, Cornell, Duke and Michigan. Of course, most top LACs would also be excellent in your fields of interest. The Claremont McKenna Colleges may have much to offer, as well as Amherst, Swarthmore, Middlebury, Davidson, Carleton etc...</p>
<p>You could look into Rice/Baylor, but that thing is crazy.</p>