<p>Excerpt: NRC Report</p>
<p>Top 10
Berkeley, Harvard, UCLA
The National Research Council ranked 48 UC Berkeley doctoral programs within the top 10 nationally. Based on the NRC's statistical analysis, 48 of UC Berkeley's 52 ranked Ph.D. programs placed within a range that included the top 10, compared to 46 of 52 programs for Harvard University, which came in second, and 40 of 59 programs for UCLA, in third place. </p>
<p>Top5
Harvard, Berkeley, Stanford,
UC Berkeley had 40 programs ranked within a range that extends into the top 5, compared to 41 at Harvard and 30 at Stanford University.</p>
<p>Top1
Harvard, Berkeley, Stanford, Princeton, MIT</p>
<p>14 programs were assigned an upper range of first place, compared with 20 at Harvard, 11 at Stanford, and 10 each at Princeton University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).</p>
<p>09.28.2010</a> - National Research Council ranks UC Berkeley's Ph.D. programs among nation's best</p>