<p>Are there any rankings available that rank undergraduate schools based on a specific major they offer? For example, is there a list available of the top 20 molecular biology programs or top 20 chemical engineering programs, etc?
Because even though Princeton or Harvard may be ranked at the top of the university rankings holistically, I highly highly doubt they're number 1 in each of the majors they offer and would like to see which schools offer the strongest programs in the concentrations I'm interested in.</p>
<p>I have the same question, mainly speaking for political science/ international relations… though base from what I understand… the top universities are safe to stay they score well in all areas if not most.</p>
<p>Yes, both Gourman (The Gourman Report) and Rugg’s (Rugg’s Recommendations on the Colleges) produce such rankings, although I’m not sure that either are available for free online. Check your local library or buy the books online via Amazon.com or another retailer.</p>
<p>It seems like Gourman is quite outdated (1997?) and Rugg’s is not available for free. It does seem like its available at my public library, and I’ll check it out, but are any biases I should be aware about with Ruggs?</p>
<p>USNWR does have rankings for undergraduate engineering and business programs. They have overall program ranking, than ranking for specific fields (finance, aeronautical engineering etc). They also have rankings for broad areas, such as arts and humanities, social science etc, of all the universities in their best universities in the world ranking.</p>
<p>^
Can you give a link? I didn’t notice it, I will re-look myself.</p>
<p>Top 20 Undergraduate Chemical Engineering programs according to the 2009 US News & World Report:</p>
<p>1 Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2 University of California-Berkeley<br>
3 University of Wisconsin-Madison
4 University of Minnesota-Twin Cities
5 Stanford University
6 California Institute of Technology
7 University of Texas-Austin
8 University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign
9 University of Delaware
10 University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
11 Princeton University
12 Georgia Institute of Technology
13 Purdue University-West Lafayette
14 Carnegie Mellon University
15 Cornell University
16 Pennsylvania State University-University Park<br>
17 University of California-Santa Barbara<br>
18 Northwestern University
19 University of Virginia
20 Johns Hopkins University
20 North Carolina State University-Raleigh
20 University of Florida
20 University of Pennsylvania</p>
<p>^^ [Best</a> Colleges - Education - US News and World Report](<a href=“http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/college/business]Best”>http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/college/business)
[Best</a> Colleges - Education - US News and World Report](<a href=“http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/college/engineering]Best”>http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/college/engineering)</p>
<p>The world rankings are found here (look for the subject rankings along the left side):
[QS</a> Top Universities - Official home of the THE - QS World University Rankings](<a href=“http://www.topuniversities.com/worlduniversityrankings/]QS”>http://www.topuniversities.com/worlduniversityrankings/)</p>
<p>I checked out Ruggs and it is not helpful at all. It doesn’t rank schools based on the quality of that specific major they offer. If it is possible, does anyone know a list of the top molecular biology programs?</p>
<p>Not exactly what you are looking for with regards to undergraduate molecular biology. This list is a start:</p>
<p>1**)** Rockefeller U.
2**)** UCLA*
2) Weill Cornell (medical school)
4) UCSF (graduate school only)
5**)** Columbia
6**)** Johns Hopkins
7) UCLA*
7**)** Duke
9**)** Harvard
10) Baylor (medical school)</p>
<p><a href=“http://chronicle.com/stats/productivity/page.php?year=2007&primary=9&secondary=102&bycat=Go[/url]”>http://chronicle.com/stats/productivity/page.php?year=2007&primary=9&secondary=102&bycat=Go</a></p>
<p>Regardless of ratings, though, you need to do your own research. There may be some little-known “gems” of schools out there who are great at chemical engineering, that get overlooked.</p>
<p>And using US News for rankings isn’t always the best idea:</p>
<p>[University</a> of Florida President Bernie Machen places his school among the most distinguished universities in the United States. Other Florida universities get poor ratings. | Gainesville.com | The Gainesville Sun | Gainesville, FL](<a href=“http://www.gainesville.com/article/20090616/ARTICLES/906169915/-1/SPORTS0102?Title=Machen-rates-Fla-schools-low#]University”>http://www.gainesville.com/article/20090616/ARTICLES/906169915/-1/SPORTS0102?Title=Machen-rates-Fla-schools-low#)
While potentially this guy’s over/under-rankings would be offset, places that are larger/more well-known (i.e. places with larger graduate programs), will likely be ranked higher. Eg: Brown is likely underrated on US News, because fewer university presidents come out of Brown than other ivies, because there are only 2,000 Brown graduate students, whereas places like Columbia have closer to 8,000,meaning more presidents are tied to Columbia then Brown, meaning Columbia’s ratings go up.</p>
<p>There’s another thread right now all about this: <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-search-selection/732180-uf-president-cooks-usnews-rankings.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-search-selection/732180-uf-president-cooks-usnews-rankings.html</a></p>
<p>Gourman Report ranking for undergraduate molecular biology</p>
<p>molecular biology
MIT
Caltech
U Wisconsin Madison
UC Berkeley
U Colorado Boulder
Northwestern
UC San Diego
U Michigan Ann Arbor
Harvard
Princeton
Carnegie Mellon
Cornell
U Penn
Purdue
RPI
SUNY Buffalo
U Arizona
U Texas Austin
U Washington
Penn State UP
Vanderbilt
UC Santa Cruz</p>
<p>Gourman Report rankings for undergraduate chemical engineering</p>
<p>U Minnesota
U Wisconsin
UC Berkeley
Cal Tech
Stanford
U Delaware
MIT
U Illinois U-C
Princeton U Houston
Purdue
Notre Dame
Northwestern
Cornell
U Texas Austin
Stevens Institute of Tech
U Penn
Carnegie Mellon
U Michigan
Rice
U Washington
U Mass Amherst
Iowa State
U Florida
U Rochester
SUNY Buffalo
Penn State U-P
Case Western
U Colorado Boulder
Washington U St Louis
Lehigh
Texas A&M
CUNY City C
Ohio State
Georgia Tech
NC State
Yale
RPI
Virginia tech
U Tennessee Knoxville
UVA
Columbia
U Arizona
Syracuse
U Utah
UCLA
U Oklahoma
U Maryland College park
Oregon State
Louisiana State Baton rouge
U Pittsburgh
U Iowa
Clarkson</p>
<p>Gourman Report undergraduate ranking in Political Science:
Yale
Harvard
Berkeley
Michigan
Chicago
MIT
Stanford
Wisconsin
Minnesota
Cornell
Princeton
UCLA
Northwestern
UNC Chapel Hill
Columbia
Indiana Bloomington
Duke
Johns Hopkins
Notre Dame
Tufts
Ohio State
U Penn
UVA
Georgetown
Texas Austin
U Washington
U Pittsburgh
U Rochester
Rutgers
Brandeis
Vanderbilt
Illinois UC
Oregon
Maryland CP
Iowa
UC Santa Barbara
SUNY Buffalo
U Mass Amherst
NYU
Michigan St
Syracuse
Washington U St Louis
US Air Force Acad
US Military Acad
Dartmouth
Pomona
Emory
UC Davis
Boston U
Tulane</p>
<p>Gourman rankings for undergraduate International Relations:</p>
<p>Tufts
Princeton
Johns Hopkins
Georgetown
U Penn
Harvard
Cornell
U Wisconsin Madison
MIT
Stanford
UVA
Notre Dame
US Air Force Acad
US Military Acad
Claremont McKenna</p>
<p>Amazing. Mini must be on vacation. I cannot believe mini has not weighed in by now.</p>
<p>If you don’t know what I’m talking about, do a search on “mini” as poster and “Gourman” as keyword. Or just the words “Gourman” and “fraud”.</p>