<p>Harvard is <em>kinda</em> on the way down in that their sciences are not quite as strong as their humanities and social sciences. Stanford has a good blend of both and is definitely on the way up (if it can go up much more :p). Summers was trying to pump more funding into the sciences to keep Harvard at the top, so it should be interesting to see how that goes without him. </p>
<p>Wake Forest, U Chicago, USC, Davidson, U Florida, Case Western, Washington, Boston U, and Brown are on the rise.</p>