<p>The National Research Council has just released its long overdue rankings of graduate programs at major U.S. universities. The last report was fifteen years ago. At that time, Princeton’s programs ranked extremely well nationally and they rank even higher in this new study.</p>
<p>The NRC rankings have been considered the “gold standard” of academic department rankings and scholars had been anxiously awaiting this new report. Another report will not be done for another ten years or so.</p>
<p>In both applied and pure mathematics, the National Research Council found Princeton’s programs to be near the top in the nation. Averaging their ‘S’ and ‘R’ scores, the national rankings look like this:</p>
<p>PURE MATHEMATICS</p>
<p>1—Princeton
2—Harvard
3—NYU
4—Berkeley
5—Stanford
6—MIT
7—Yale
8—Penn State
9—U. of Michigan
10–U. of Wisconsin</p>
<p>APPLIED MATHEMATICS</p>
<p>1—Princeton
2—Brown
3—UCLA
4—U. of Washington
5—Cornell
6—MIT
7—Northwestern
8—NYU
9—U. of Arizona
10–UC Davis</p>
<p>For more details regarding the survey and the above ranking, see:</p>
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