<p>What are some top ranked programs at the undergrad level in Princeton? I can only find grad school data on USNews, so I was wondering if you guys knew. Thanks.</p>
<p>I'd put lacrosse right at the top.</p>
<p>I hear eating clubs are pretty well ranked as well</p>
<p>SOME of the "eating clubs" - ie, the "bicker" ones are indeed highly-ranked. </p>
<p>But those aren't "programs" in the sense that lacrosse under Coach Tierney is a "program", bulldog.</p>
<p>There are no published rankings of undergraduate departments that I'm aware of. However, some of the best regarded undergraduate programs on campus are political science, physics, math, English (and creative writing), and history.</p>
<p>pretty much every program that princeton offers is in the top ten in the nation. the only programs that aren't really top-ranked are some in the biological sciences, plus chemistry and anthropology. and the engineering is good, but no stanford.</p>
<p>i might add that since the nrc rankings are long out of date, with recent moves in the field, princeton has probably the best art history program in the country, particularly for modern european art.</p>
<p>and besides what's already been named, classics, religous studies, romance languages, comparative literature, german, slavic languages all boast faculty who are leaders in their respective fields</p>
<p>I'm not sure the performing arts is as highly ranked, but I could be wrong (Yale has a good music program--better than Princeton)...</p>
<p>I would say that economics is extremely strong, too. NBC got a Pton econ professor to discuss the state of the economy a couple of weeks ago. Also, the graduate school rankings put Pton consistently at the top 3 each year. There are no rankings about undergrad econ, but I would say if there was one, it would be similar.</p>
<p>How is Princeton's undergraduate engineering program? I'm guessing since it has a grad school of engineering, the UG program must be fairly competitive?</p>
<p>Its very good, but comparatively smaller percentage-wise than the engineering greats like MIT, Caltech, and Stanford. It's ranked a bit lower in terms of faculty and students, simply because it is smaller. But like most other Princeton programs, it is one of the top in the country.</p>
<h1>11 in the latest u.s. news - a close but comfortable second in the ivies to cornell (#10). the next-best ivy's well behind.</h1>
<p>How about the grad program rankings, where the quality of the program, faculty, students etc are more at issue - which is less true with undergrad programs, (not ranked according to discrete criteria, but only with a simple "peer reputation" list) where some schools do not offer separate engineering degrees and thus attract fewer monomaniacal candidates?</p>
<p>please re-read the OP: "What are some top ranked programs at the [<em>]undergrad[</em>] level in Princeton? I can only find grad school data on USNews, so I was wondering if you guys knew."</p>
<p>also, the post by yaodynasty that prompted my own: "How is Princeton's [<em>]undergraduate[</em>] engineering program?"</p>
<p>The Tiger Inn contends for #1 every year, doesn't it?</p>
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How about the grad program rankings, where the quality of the program, faculty, students etc are more at issue - which is less true with undergrad programs, (not ranked according to discrete criteria, but only with a simple "peer reputation" list) where some schools do not offer separate engineering degrees and thus attract fewer monomaniacal candidates?
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<p>I believe their western history program is #1, along with one of the math topics (I don't have the issue right in my hands). Chemical engineering is #7. Obviously, physics is highly ranked too.</p>
<p>Also, I completely agree with you that graduate rankings are far more important to a department than undergrad, but then again, I'm a graduate student.</p>
<p>For the record, there is no political science department. The Politics department focuses on issues, their origins and solutions using something like a case approach.</p>
<p>Princeton's Math department is #2 in the country behind MIT and tied with Harvard, Stanford, and UCB. Princeton is #1 in the Analysis category.</p>
<p>Princeton's String Theory and Elementary Particles program is #1</p>
<p>I second someone else's comments regarding Princeton's econ dept. I'll be heading to the University of Chicago in the fall, and the head of its infamous economics department is a Princeton alum. N. Gregory Mankiw, famous for his undergraduate intro to econ books, is also an alum and is currently a professor at Harvard. The current Federal Reserve chairman was the chair of the Pton economics dept. Note also that the ranking member of the Banking cmte. in the Senate - which passed Bernanke's confirmation onto the full senate - is also a Princeton alum, with an AB in Economics. Well, the list is endless... I'd say that econ might be close to Princeton's STRONGEST department.</p>
<p>Where did you get that statistic (I believe you, I just want to know what your source is)?</p>
<p>If you are asking about my statistics, then they are from our good friend US News.</p>