Top 15 Graduate Programs:

College Search & Selection
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<p>There's an undergrad thread, so I thought I'd start a grad one :)</p>

<p>Please rate OVERALL graduate school performance, when possible.</p>

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<ol>
<li>Berkeley</li>
<li>Stanford</li>
<li>Harvard
...some others</li>
</ol>

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<p>LOL. Can't argue with your assessment UCBChemEGrad. I just think your list is a bit short. ;-)</p>

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<p>There's no point of an overall grad school ranking.</p>

<p>Also, see this discussed in the Graduate School forum.
<a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/graduate-school/500402-ranking-top-grad-schools-overall.html%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/graduate-school/500402-ranking-top-grad-schools-overall.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

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<ol>
<li>Stanford</li>
<li>Berkeley</li>
<li>Harvard</li>
<li>Princeton</li>
<li>MIT</li>
</ol>

<p>Few schools can match them for breadth of graduate excellence.</p>

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<p>Princeton should not be on that list. Its graduate schools are excellent but narrow in scope. No law school, no business school, no med school, etc...</p>

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<p>All i can say that there is a top tier where there is no clear victor, and this is my tier for that. </p>

<p>Tier 1: Berkeley, Harvard, Stanford, University of Chicago, MIT, Columbia</p>

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<p>UC and Columbia are good but don't have the breadth of Stanford, Harvard, and Berkeley.</p>

<p>1.Berkeley/Stanford
2.Harvard
3.MIT</p>

<p>After those four its pretty debatable.</p>

<p>I found an article written by Clark Kerr which talks about the growing competition in grad schools and research.</p>

<p>ProQuest</a> Login</p>

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<p>Tier 1: Harvard, MIT, University of Chicago, Stanford, Berkeley</p>

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<p>Engineering</p>

<p>Berkeley
Stanford
MIT</p>

<p>Social Sciences</p>

<p>Berkeley
Stanford
Harvard</p>

<p>Humanities</p>

<p>Berkeley
Stanford
HYP</p>

<p>Sciences</p>

<p>Berkeley
Stanford
Harvard</p>

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<p>
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Its graduate schools are excellent but narrow in scope. No law school, no business school, no med school, etc...

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<p>Those are professional programs.</p>

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<p>Mine:</p>

<p>1) Berkeley
1) Stanford
3) Harvard
4) MIT
5) Yale
6) Michigan
7) Columbia
8) Chicago
...................................</p>

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<p>Chicago should be higher...yes im biased</p>

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<p>It looks like Harvard doesn't top anyone's list for grad schools. What IS Harvard good at? (unless this thread doesn't take into account professional schools at all, like medicine, public policy, architecture, etc.)</p>

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<p>I cannot believe Princeton has not been mentioned. It is number 1 for math and physics easily, and is amongst the top 5 in other fields such as economics. This is not only my opinion, it is also consistent with US News's Rankings for top Graduate Schools.</p>

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<p>I did mention Princeton. Someone else disagreed.</p>

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<p>Interesting thread. The question was asked top 15 graduate programs. Anybody mention 15 yet?</p>

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<p>
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Interesting thread. The question was asked top 15 graduate programs. Anybody mention 15 yet?

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<p>Take the ones already mentioned and throw in the rest of the top publics (UCLA, UCSD, Wisconsin, Texas, Illinois, Washington)</p>

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<p>The best 15 publics for graduate programs would be something like:</p>

<p>Berkeley, Michigan, Wisconsin, UCLA, UCSD, Illinois, Washington, Texas, Minnesota, Maryland, Penn State, Purdue, Colorado, Texas A&M, Ohio State</p>

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<p>
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I found an article written by Clark Kerr which talks about the growing competition in grad schools and research.

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Clarke Kerr is from Berkeley, no?</p>