<p>Could anyone give rankings for the top schools that have majors in these programs? Thanks!</p>
<p>US News graduate rankings (with med schools removed) in molecular bio:
1. Harvard University (MA)
2. Stanford University (CA)
3. Massachusetts Institute of Technology<br>
4. University of CaliforniaBerkeley<br>
5. Johns Hopkins University (MD)
6. Princeton University (NJ)
7. California Institute of Technology<br>
8. Yale University (CT)
9. University of WisconsinMadison<br>
Washington University in St. Louis<br>
11. Duke University (NC)
University of Pennsylvania </p>
<p>Biochem:
1. Harvard University (MA)
2. Stanford University (CA)
3. Johns Hopkins University (MD)
University of CaliforniaBerkeley<br>
5. University of WisconsinMadison<br>
6. Massachusetts Institute of Technology<br>
7. California Institute of Technology<br>
8. Yale University (CT)
9. Duke University (NC)
University of MichiganAnn Arbor<br>
University of Washington<br>
12. University of CaliforniaSan Diego<br>
13. University of Pennsylvania</p>
<p>Wow thanks im_blue! Where did you get your info from?</p>
<p>This is from the US News graduate rankings which are online but require a paid login.</p>
<p>some of those tops schools don't even have a major in molecular biology.</p>
<p>With Proposal 71 passed in California, my guess is that Stanford, Caltech, and Berkeley will move up in ranking dramatically next year.</p>
<p>proposal 71?</p>
<p>California recently passed Proposition 71, which will provide $3 billion of state funds for stem cell research, which includes various top California universities such as Stanford, Berkeley, and Caltech.</p>
<p>Harvard, Stanford, MIT, UC-Berkeley, Wisconsin-Madison, CalTech, Johns Hopkins, Yale, Duke, Michigan-Ann Arbor, WUSL, UPenn, Princeton, UCSD and Cornell are all very good in the fields you are considering.</p>
<p>woo woo...Go Cardinal!</p>
<p>Yale Is Number 1.</p>
<p>clay soul...i suggest u look at the list</p>
<p>my point is that yale is better</p>
<p>wow, that list is graduate programs anyways. and i'm refferinig primarily to the combined molecular biochemistry and biophysics program at yale.</p>
<p>Go to this small school called Rockefeller University. My parents went there and it was cool, very nice environment, all free tuition. They also let you hang there if you're not a student, you can take in movies in the big dome and such. Nobody has EVER heard of it but there are tons of folks there with Nobels, including this crazy old bearded white guy who was my dad's friend.</p>
<p>ClaySoul - i'd like to do MB&B if I choose to go to Yale. I've always wondered though - why is Yale the only school that has such a combined program as far as I know of?</p>
<p>I'm sure there are others. Yale's is just paticularly good. And they are yale -- so they'll be getting notice regardless</p>
<p>As an undergraduate you must look at your opportunities for conducting research. Some large schools do not have the time to train undergraduate students in the lab. When you finally graduate from that university your resume may appear to be lacking in experience. Both medical schools and graduate schools like to see a great deal of research from applicants. </p>
<p>I was very fortunate. I attended the University of the Sciences in Philadelphia.
This is a small science based university (formerly the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy and Science). I majored in biochemistry and bioinformatics. I did fairly well academically but the strongest part of my applications to graduate school focused on research. I was accepted by Princeton, UPENN, Brandeis, Rutgers and Johns Hopkins(all of which are very good schools). I decided to go to Hopkins for many reasons. The key is to find a small school with many opportunities. No one cares about the rankings. Its what you do, not where you go.</p>
<p>How come the US News rankings and the PhDs.org rankings for biophysics are so different? SUNY Buffalo (Roswell Park Cancer Institute) program is ranked very highly by PhDs.org, but not so in US News?</p>
<p>US News uses different criteria than Ph.D.org.</p>