<p>Are they talking about Columbia College in this article or Fu Foundation SEAS?</p>
<p>(The link is at the bottom).</p>
<p>Top undergrad physics departments, according to Gourman:</p>
<p>Caltech
Harvard
Cornell
Princeton
MIT
UC Berkeley
Stanford
U Chicago
U Illinois UC
Columbia
Yale
Georgia Tech
UC San Diego
UCLA
U Pennsylvania
U Wisconsin Madison
U Washington
U Michigan AA
U Maryland CP
UC Santa Barbara
U Texas Austin
Carnegie Mellon
U Minnesota
RPI
Brown
JHU
Michigan St
Notre Dame
SUNY Stony Brook
Case Western
Northwestern
U Rochester
U Pittsburgh
Penn State
U Colorado Boulder</p>
<p>By comparison, the Department of Physics is part of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, a different academic body, and the one CC, GS, and the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences draw their faculty. Department</a> of Physics Website</p>
<p>Physics and Applied Physics are different academic disciplines, a difference that I don't think most high school students necessarily appreciate.</p>