<p>These are the best 2-4 Ivies in each major.</p>
<p>The following list shows which Ivies are strongest in various subjects according to the Gourman Report for Undergraduate Programs. By “best” I mean that the school had a score of 4.7 or above (out of 5) for that discipline OR it was one of the top 4 out of 8 Ivies. The scores in the Gourman Report range from 5 (strong) to 2 (marginal). In the case of near-ties, I included both schools.</p>
<p>The Gourman Report states that its ratings are based on “extensive reseach” into the following criteria:</p>
<li>auspices, control, and organization of the institution</li>
<li>numbers of educational programs offered and degrees conferred (with additional attention to “sub-fields” available to students within a particular discipline</li>
<li>age (experience level) of the institution and the individual discipline or program and division</li>
<li>faculty, including qualifications, experience, intellectual interests, attainments, and professional productivity (including research)</li>
<li>students, including quality of scholastic work and records of graduates both in graduate study and in practice</li>
<li>basis of and requirements for admission of students (overall and by individual discipline)</li>
<li>number of students enrolled (overall and for each discipline)</li>
<li>curriculum and curricular content of the program or discipline and division</li>
<li>standards and quality of instruction (including teaching loads)</li>
<li>quality of administration, including attitudes and policy towards teaching, research and scholarly production in each discipline, and administration research</li>
<li>quality and availability of non-departmental areas such as counseling and career placement services</li>
<li>quality of physical plant devoted to undergraduate, graduate, and professional levels</li>
<li>finances, including budgets, investments, expenditures and sources of income for both public and private institutions</li>
<li>library, including number of volumes, appropriateness of materials to individual disciplines and accessibility of materials</li>
<li>computer facility sufficient to support current research activities for both faculty and students</li>
<li>sufficient funding for research equipment and infrastructure</li>
<li>number of teaching and research assistantships</li>
<li>academic-athletic balance</li>
</ol>
<p>The weight given to each criterion above varies by discipline. </p>
<p>I think the Gourman formula works against smaller schools such as Dartmouth which is no doubt excellent in most disciplines.</p>
<p>ARTS<br>
art Harvard Yale Princeton Columbia<br>
theater Cornell<br>
music Cornell Harvard Yale Princeton Columbia </p>
<p>ENGINEERING<br>
aerospace eng Princeton<br>
agricultural eng Cornell<br>
biomedical eng Brown Penn
chemical eng Cornell Princeton Penn
civil eng Cornell Brown Princeton Columbia<br>
electrical eng Cornell Brown Princeton Columbia<br>
engineering physics Cornell Princeton<br>
geological eng Princeton<br>
industrial eng Cornell Columbia<br>
materials eng Cornell Brown Columbia Penn
mechanical eng Cornell Brown Princeton Columbia Penn
mining and mineral eng Columbia<br>
systems eng Penn</p>
<p>HUMANITIES<br>
Arabic Harvard Princeton Penn
art history Harvard Yale Princeton Columbia Penn
Chinese Cornell Harvard Columbia Penn
classics Harvard Yale Princeton Columbia<br>
comparative lit Harvard Yale Columbia Penn
English Cornell Brown Harvard Yale Princeton Columbia Penn
French Cornell Yale Princeton Columbia Penn
German Cornell Harvard Yale Princeton<br>
Greek Brown Harvard Columbia Penn
Hebrew Harvard Columbia Penn
information science Harvard<br>
Italian Brown Yale Columbia<br>
Japanese Harvard Columbia Penn
Latin Harvard Yale Columbia<br>
linguistics Cornell Yale Penn
philosophy Cornell Brown Harvard Yale Princeton Columbia<br>
Portugese Harvard Penn
religious studies Dartmouth Yale Princeton Penn
Russian Harvard Yale Columbia Penn
Scandanavian languages Harvard Penn
Slavic languages Harvard Princeton Penn
Spanish Harvard Yale Penn</p>
<p>PROFESSIONAL<br>
accounting Penn
architecture Cornell Princeton<br>
business administration Penn
environmental design Cornell Harvard Penn
finance Penn
hotel mngmnt Cornell<br>
landscape architecture Cornell<br>
management Penn
marketing Penn
nursing Columbia Penn
operations research Cornell Columbia<br>
social work Penn
sociology Cornell Harvard Yale Princeton Columbia<br>
urban planning Cornell </p>
<p>SCIENCES<br>
applied mathematics Brown Harvard Yale Columbia<br>
astronomy Cornell Harvard<br>
astrophysics Harvard Princeton<br>
atmospheric sciences Cornell<br>
bacteriology/microbiology Cornell<br>
biochemistry Cornell Harvard Yale Columbia<br>
biology Cornell Harvard Yale Columbia<br>
biophysics Cornell Brown Yale Penn
botany Cornell<br>
cell biology Cornell Brown<br>
chemistry Cornell Harvard Yale Princeton Columbia<br>
computer science Cornell Yale Princeton<br>
ecology/environ studies Cornell Harvard Penn
entomology Cornell<br>
environmental sci Cornell Harvard Penn
genetics Cornell<br>
geology Cornell Dartmouth Harvard Yale Princeton Columbia<br>
geophysics Brown Harvard Yale Princeton Columbia<br>
marine sci Cornell Brown<br>
mathematics Cornell Brown Harvard Yale Princeton Columbia<br>
meteorology Cornell<br>
molecular biology Cornell Harvard Princeton Penn
nutrition Cornell<br>
physics Cornell Yale Princeton Columbia Penn
statistics Cornell Columbia Penn
zoology Cornell </p>
<p>SOCIAL SCIENCES<br>
American Studies Cornell Brown Yale Penn
anthropology Cornell Harvard Yale Columbia Penn
asian studies Cornell Harvard Yale Penn
behavioral sciences Cornell Penn
child psychology Cornell Penn
communication Penn
East Asian Studies Cornell Harvard Columbia Penn
economics Harvard Yale Princeton Columbia Penn
history Cornell Harvard Yale Princeton Columbia Penn
international relations Cornell Harvard Princeton Penn
labor and industrial relations Cornell Penn
Latin American studies Columbia<br>
medieval studies Cornell Columbia<br>
Near/Middle Eastern Studies Harvard Princeton Columbia Penn
political science Cornell Harvard Yale Princeton Columbia<br>
psychology Harvard Yale Columbia Penn
Russian/Slavic studies Harvard Yale Princeton Columbia<br>
sociology Harvard Yale Columbia Penn
South Asian studies Brown Harvard Penn
Southeast Asian Studies Cornell Harvard Penn</p>
<p>TECHNICAL<br>
agricultural business Cornell<br>
agricultural economics Cornell<br>
agriculture Cornell<br>
agronomy Cornell<br>
animal sciences Cornell<br>
dairy sciences Cornell<br>
dietetics Cornell<br>
farm/ranch mngmnt Cornell<br>
food services Cornell<br>
food services mngmnt Cornell<br>
horticulture Cornell<br>
natural resource mngmnt Cornell<br>
ornamental horticulture Cornell<br>
poultry sciences Cornell</p>