UW among the elite in top ranked programs

<p>From another poster. And I expect a few depts to move UP in the next rankings. BM is doing a great job.</p>

<p>Best Graduate Schools - Education - US News and World Report</p>

<p>U.S. News has just released its newest rankings of graduate school programs at universities across the country. About half of the disciplines have new rankings this year while the other half are from last year or the year before.</p>

<p>Many posters here on CC think of Princeton primarily as an undergraduate institution. They see the absence of professional schools of law, medicine and business as indicating a weaker graduate program. Princeton's focus is not on professional schools (with the exception of the Woodrow Wilson School and the School of Architecture) but its graduate programs leading to PhDs in the humanities and sciences are among the best in the country.</p>

<p>U.S. News offers its analysis of the strength of many of the core PhD programs in the humanities and sciences, including Biological Sciences, Chemistry, Computer Science, Earth Sciences, Economics, English, History, Mathematics, Physics, Political Science, Psychology and Sociology. </p>

<p>Among these core disciplines, only the following schools have programs that rank among the top fifty institutions for all twelve. Their average scores for these twelve basic programs in the sciences and humanities are as follows (on a scale of 1.0 to 5.0) :</p>

<p>Average
Score Institution</p>

<p>4.8------------Berkeley and Stanford</p>

<p>4.7------------Harvard</p>

<p>4.6------------Princeton</p>

<p>4.5------------</p>

<p>4.4------------Yale</p>

<p>4.3------------Columbia and U. of Chicago, U. of Michigan</p>

<p>4.2------------Cornell, UCLA and U. of Wisconsin-Madison</p>

<p>4.1------------</p>

<p>4.0------------UT Austin</p>

<p>3.9------------Duke, Northwestern and UC San Diego</p>

<p>3.8------------Johns Hopkins, U. of Minnesota and U. of Washington</p>

<p>3.7------------</p>

<p>3.6------------Ohio State, Penn State, UC Davis </p>

<p>3.4------------UC Santa Barbara</p>

<p>No other schools ranked within the top 50 programs in all twelve basic disciplines.</p>