<p>I'm having trouble finding a list of the best physics programs in the US. Does anyone know any good ones?</p>
<p>search CC for physics
use the search engine on CC</p>
<p>Caltech, Stanford and MIT are really good.</p>
<p>Don't forget Harvey Mudd.</p>
<p>Princeton, MIT, Cornell.</p>
<p>Now just be sure you want a physics degree and not an engineering degree as when you apply to school you will have to make a choice and this is not always as easy as it sounds.</p>
<p>Gourman Report undergraduate rankings for Physics:</p>
<p>Caltech
Harvard
Cornell
Princeton
MIT
UC Berkeley
Stanford
U Chicago
U Illinois Urbana Champaign
Columbia
Yale
Georgia Tech
UC San Diego
UCLA
U Penn
U Wisconsin Madison
U Washington
U Michigan Ann Arbor
U Maryland College Park
UC Santa Barbara
U Texas Austin
Carnegie Mellon
U Minnesota
RPI
Brown
Johns Hopkins
Michigan State
Notre Dame
SUNY Stony Brook
Case Western
Northwestern
U Rochester
U Pittsburgh
Penn State University Park</p>
<p>According to the National Research Council, the top five are Harvard, Princeton, MIT, Cal Berkeley, Cal Tech.</p>
<p>The American Physical Society sponsors the Apker</a> Award for undergraduate research in physics. For undergraduate physics, you might look for schools that tend to win Apkers. In recent years, Harvey Mudd, Williams, Princeton, Caltech, and Chicago have been particularly successful.</p>
<p>Engineering Physics
(At schools whose highest degree is a doctorate)
Methodology </p>
<p>1 Cornell University (NY)
2 University of California–Berkeley *
3 U. of Illinois–Urbana-Champaign *
4 California Institute of Technology<br>
5 Pennsylvania State U.–University Park *
5 Princeton University (NJ)
5 University of Michigan–Ann Arbor *
8 Harvard University (MA)
8 Virginia Tech *</p>
<p>undergrad, from US News</p>
<p>I have heard UCSB is good</p>