US University Rankings by Department
US News University Rankings by Department (2009):
Algebra/Number Theory
1 Princeton 2 Harvard 3 UCB 4 UMichigan 5 UChicago
Anthropology
1 UChicago 1 U Michigan 3 UC Berkeley 4 Harvard 5 U Arizona 6 UPenn 7 Stanford 8 Yale 9 UCLA 10 UC San Diego 11 U Florida 12 U Texas 13 NYU
Art History
1 NYU 2 Columbia 3 UC Berkeley 4 Harvard 5 Yale 6 Princeton 7 Johns Hopkins 8 Northwestern 9 UPenn 10 UChicago 11 U Michigan 12 CUNY 13 UCLA
Atomic Physics
1 U of Colorado Boulder 2 MIT 3 Harvard 4 Stanford 5 U of Maryland
Astrophysics
1 Caltech 2 Princeton 3 UC Berkeley 4 Harvard 5 UChicago 6 UC Santa Cruz 7 U Arizona 8 MIT 9 Cornell 10 U Texas 11 U Hawaii Manoa 12 U Colorado 13 U Illinois
Biology
1 Stanford 2 MIT 3 UC Berkeley 4 Caltech 4 Harvard 6 Johns Hopkins 7 Rockefeller University 7 Scripps Research Institute 7 UC San Francisco 7 Washington University in St Louis 7 Yale 12 Cornell 12 Duke 12 Princeton
Biological Chemistry
1 UC San Francisco 2 Stanford 3 MIT 4 UC Berkeley 5 Harvard 6 Yale 7 Caltech 8 Wisconsin 9 UC San Diego 10 Johns Hopkins 11 Columbia 12 U Colorado 13 Washington St. Louis
Chemistry
1 Caltech 1 MIT 1 Stanford 1 UC Berkeley 5 Harvard 5 Scripps Research Institute 7 U of Illinois Urbana Champaign 7 U of Wisconsin Madison 9 Cornell 9 Northwestern 11 Columbia 12 UCLA 12 UChicago 12 UT Austin 13 Yale
Classics
1 Harvard 2 UC Berkeley 3 U Michigan 4 Princeton 5 Yale 6 Brown 7 UChicago 8 U Texas 9 UCLA 10 Columbia 11 UNC 12 Cornell 13 UPenn
Computer Science
1 MIT 1 Stanford 1 UC Berkeley 4 CMU 5 U of Illinois Urbana Champaign 6 Cornell 6 Princeton 6 U of Washington 9 Georgia Tech 9 UT Austin 11 Caltech 11 U of Wisconsin Madison 13 UCLA 13 U of Maryland College Park 13 U Michigan
Cosmology
1 Caltech 2 Princeton 3 UChicago 4 UCB 5 Stanford
Earth Sciences
1 Caltech 2 MIT 2 Stanford 4 UCB 5 Columbia 5 UMichigan 7 Penn State 8 U of Arizona 9 Harvard 9 UT Austin 11 Princeton 11 UCLA 11 U of Washington 11 Yale 15 Cornell 15 UCSD 15 UChicago 15 U of Wisconsin Madison 19 Brown 19 UCSC 21 Johns Hopkins 21 UCD 21 UCSB 21 U of Minnesota Twin Cities 25 Rice 25 U of Colorado Boulder 25 Washington University St Louis
Economics
1 MIT 1 UChicago 3 Harvard 3 Princeton 3 Stanford 3 UC Berkeley 7 Yale 8 Northwestern 9 UPenn 10 UC San Diego
English
1 Harvard 1 UC Berkeley 1 Yale 4 Princeton 4 Stanford 6 Cornell 6 UChicago 8 Columbia 8 Johns Hopkins 10 UCLA 10 UPenn 12 Duke 12 U of Michigan Ann Arbor 12 UVA
French
1 Yale 2 Princeton 3 Duke 4 Columbia 5 UPenn 6 Stanford 7 UC Berkeley 8 Cornell 9 UMichigan 10 UC Irvine 11 U Wisconsin 12 NYU 13 UVA
Geography
1 Penn State 2 U Wisconsin 3 U Minnesota 4 UC Santa Barbara 5 Ohio State 6 Syracuse 7 UC Berkeley 8 UCLA 9 Clark University 10 U Washington 11 SUNY Buffalo 12 U Colorado 13 Rutgers
Geology
1 Caltech 2 MIT 2 Stanford 4 UC Berkeley 5 Columbia 5 U of Michigan Ann Arbor 7 Penn State 8 U of Arizona 9 Harvard 9 UT Austin 11 Princeton 11 UCLA 11 U of Washington 11 Yale
German
1 UC Berkeley 2 Princeton 3 Cornell 4 Harvard 5 Yale 6 Stanford 7 Washington St. Louis 8 UVA 9 Johns Hopkins 10 U Wisconsin 11 U Minnesota 12 U Washington 13 U Texas
History
1 Harvard 2 Stanford 3 U of Michigan Ann Arbor 4 Princeton 5 UC Berkeley 5 Yale 7 UC San Diego 8 Duke 8 UChicago 10 Columbia 10 MIT 10 UCLA 11 Cornell 11 U of Wisconsin Madison 13 UNC Chapel Hill 13 UPenn
Immunology
1 Harvard 2 Stanford 3 UC San Francisco 4 Yale 5 Johns Hopkins 5 Washington University St. Louis 7 Rockefeller University 7 UPenn 9 Duke 9 U of Texas Southwestern Medical Center - Dallas
Linguistics
1 MIT 2 Stanford 3 UCLA 4 U Massachusetts 5 UPenn 6 UChicago 7 UC Berkeley 8 Ohio State 9 Cornell 10 UC Santa Cruz 11 U Texas 12 USC 13 U Arizona
Mathematics
1 Princeton 2 Harvard 2 MIT 2 Stanford 2 UC Berkeley 6 UChicago 7 Caltech 7 Yale 9 Columbia 9 NYU 9 U of Michigan Ann Arbor 12 UCLA 13 Cornell
Molecular Biology
1 Harvard 2 MIT 3 Stanford 4 UCSF 5 UCB 6 Caltech 6 Rockefeller University 8 Johns Hopkins 8 Princeton 8 Yale
Music
1 Harvard 1 UChicago 3 UC Berkeley 4 CUNY 5 Yale 6 Princeton 7 UPenn 8 Rochester 9 U Michigan 10 U Illinois 11 Cornell 12 Columbia 13 Brandeis
Neuroscience
1 UC San Diego 2 Yale 3 Harvard 4 UC San Francisco 5 Stanford 6 Columbia 7 Johns Hopkins 8 Washington St. Louis 9 UC Berkeley 10 UPenn 11 Caltech 12 U Washington 13 Rockefeller Institute
Nuclear Physics
1 MIT 2 Michigan State 3 U of Washington 4 SUNY Stony Brook 5 Yale
Paleontology
1 UChicago 2 Harvard 3 UMichigan 3 Yale 5 UCB 6 U of Kansas 7 U of Cincinnati 8 U of Iowa 9 UT Austin 10 Ohio State
Philosophy
1 Princeton 2 U Pittsburgh 3 Harvard 4 UC Berkeley 5 UCLA 6 Stanford 7 U MIchigan 8 Cornell
9 MIT 10 U Arizona 11 UChicago 12 Rutgers 13 Brown
Plasma Physics
1 Princeton 2 MIT 2 U of Maryland 2 U of Wisconsin 5 UT Austin 6 UCLA 7 UCB 7 UCSD 9 U of Iowa 10 U of Colorado
Political Science
1 Harvard 2 Stanford 3 U of Michigan Ann Arbor 4 Princeton 5 UC Berkeley 5 Yale 7 UC San Diego 8 Duke 8 UChicago 10 Columbia 10 MIT 10 UCLA 13 Ohio State 13 UNC Chapel Hill 13 Rochester
Political Theory
1 Harvard 2 Princeton 3 UChicago 4 Yale 5 UCB
Psychology
1 Stanford 2 UC Berkeley 3 U of Michigan Ann Arbor 4 Yale 5 Harvard 5 Princeton 5 UCLA 5 U of Illinois Urbana Champaign 9 CMU 9 Harvard 9 U of Wisconsin Madison 12 MIT 12 Stanford 12 UT Austin 12 U of Minnesota Twin Cities
Physics
1 MIT 1 Stanford 3 Caltech 3 Harvard 3 Princeton 3 UC Berkeley 7 Cornell 8 UChicago 8 U of Illinois Urbana Champaign 10 UC Santa Barbara 11 Columbia 11 Yale 13 U of Maryland College Park 13 U of Michigan Ann Arbor 13 UPenn
Quantum Physics
1 MIT 2 Harvard 3 Caltech 4 Princeton 4 Stanford 4 U of Colorado
Religion
1 Chicago 2 Harvard 3 Princeton 4 Duke 5 Emory 6 UVA 7 Vanderbilt 8 Princeton 9 UC Santa Barbara 10 UPenn 11 Jewish Theological Seminary 12 Notre Dame 13 Hebrew Union
Sociology
1 UChicago 2 U Wisconsin 3 UC Berkeley 4 U Michigan 5 UCLA 6 UNC 7 Harvard 8 Stanford 9 Northwestern 10 U Washington 11 UPenn 12 IU 13 Princeton
Spanish
1 Columbia 2 Duke 3 Brown 4 Princeton 5 UVA 6 UPenn 7 U Wisconsin 8 Cornell 9 UC Berkeley 10 Harvard 11 U Kansas 12 U Texas 13 U Michigan
Statistics
1 Stanford 2 UC Berkeley 3 Cornell 4 UChicago 5 U Washington 6 Harvard 7 U Wisconsin 8 Purdue 9 UNC 10 UCLA 11 U Minnesota 12 Iowa State 13 Texas A&M
String Theory/Elementary Particles
1 Caltech 1 MIT 3 Harvard 4 Princeton 5 UCB 6 Stanford 7 UCSB 7 UChicago 9 Cornell 10 Columbia
Topology
1 UCB 2 Princeton 3 Harvard 4 UChicago 5 MIT
Source: US News 2009
* Suggested Reading: Subject Ranking of US Universities
Algebra/Number Theory
1 Princeton 2 Harvard 3 UCB 4 UMichigan 5 UChicago
Anthropology
1 UChicago 1 U Michigan 3 UC Berkeley 4 Harvard 5 U Arizona 6 UPenn 7 Stanford 8 Yale 9 UCLA 10 UC San Diego 11 U Florida 12 U Texas 13 NYU
Art History
1 NYU 2 Columbia 3 UC Berkeley 4 Harvard 5 Yale 6 Princeton 7 Johns Hopkins 8 Northwestern 9 UPenn 10 UChicago 11 U Michigan 12 CUNY 13 UCLA
Atomic Physics
1 U of Colorado Boulder 2 MIT 3 Harvard 4 Stanford 5 U of Maryland
Astrophysics
1 Caltech 2 Princeton 3 UC Berkeley 4 Harvard 5 UChicago 6 UC Santa Cruz 7 U Arizona 8 MIT 9 Cornell 10 U Texas 11 U Hawaii Manoa 12 U Colorado 13 U Illinois
Biology
1 Stanford 2 MIT 3 UC Berkeley 4 Caltech 4 Harvard 6 Johns Hopkins 7 Rockefeller University 7 Scripps Research Institute 7 UC San Francisco 7 Washington University in St Louis 7 Yale 12 Cornell 12 Duke 12 Princeton
Biological Chemistry
1 UC San Francisco 2 Stanford 3 MIT 4 UC Berkeley 5 Harvard 6 Yale 7 Caltech 8 Wisconsin 9 UC San Diego 10 Johns Hopkins 11 Columbia 12 U Colorado 13 Washington St. Louis
Chemistry
1 Caltech 1 MIT 1 Stanford 1 UC Berkeley 5 Harvard 5 Scripps Research Institute 7 U of Illinois Urbana Champaign 7 U of Wisconsin Madison 9 Cornell 9 Northwestern 11 Columbia 12 UCLA 12 UChicago 12 UT Austin 13 Yale
Classics
1 Harvard 2 UC Berkeley 3 U Michigan 4 Princeton 5 Yale 6 Brown 7 UChicago 8 U Texas 9 UCLA 10 Columbia 11 UNC 12 Cornell 13 UPenn
Computer Science
1 MIT 1 Stanford 1 UC Berkeley 4 CMU 5 U of Illinois Urbana Champaign 6 Cornell 6 Princeton 6 U of Washington 9 Georgia Tech 9 UT Austin 11 Caltech 11 U of Wisconsin Madison 13 UCLA 13 U of Maryland College Park 13 U Michigan
Cosmology
1 Caltech 2 Princeton 3 UChicago 4 UCB 5 Stanford
Earth Sciences
1 Caltech 2 MIT 2 Stanford 4 UCB 5 Columbia 5 UMichigan 7 Penn State 8 U of Arizona 9 Harvard 9 UT Austin 11 Princeton 11 UCLA 11 U of Washington 11 Yale 15 Cornell 15 UCSD 15 UChicago 15 U of Wisconsin Madison 19 Brown 19 UCSC 21 Johns Hopkins 21 UCD 21 UCSB 21 U of Minnesota Twin Cities 25 Rice 25 U of Colorado Boulder 25 Washington University St Louis
Economics
1 MIT 1 UChicago 3 Harvard 3 Princeton 3 Stanford 3 UC Berkeley 7 Yale 8 Northwestern 9 UPenn 10 UC San Diego
English
1 Harvard 1 UC Berkeley 1 Yale 4 Princeton 4 Stanford 6 Cornell 6 UChicago 8 Columbia 8 Johns Hopkins 10 UCLA 10 UPenn 12 Duke 12 U of Michigan Ann Arbor 12 UVA
French
1 Yale 2 Princeton 3 Duke 4 Columbia 5 UPenn 6 Stanford 7 UC Berkeley 8 Cornell 9 UMichigan 10 UC Irvine 11 U Wisconsin 12 NYU 13 UVA
Geography
1 Penn State 2 U Wisconsin 3 U Minnesota 4 UC Santa Barbara 5 Ohio State 6 Syracuse 7 UC Berkeley 8 UCLA 9 Clark University 10 U Washington 11 SUNY Buffalo 12 U Colorado 13 Rutgers
Geology
1 Caltech 2 MIT 2 Stanford 4 UC Berkeley 5 Columbia 5 U of Michigan Ann Arbor 7 Penn State 8 U of Arizona 9 Harvard 9 UT Austin 11 Princeton 11 UCLA 11 U of Washington 11 Yale
German
1 UC Berkeley 2 Princeton 3 Cornell 4 Harvard 5 Yale 6 Stanford 7 Washington St. Louis 8 UVA 9 Johns Hopkins 10 U Wisconsin 11 U Minnesota 12 U Washington 13 U Texas
History
1 Harvard 2 Stanford 3 U of Michigan Ann Arbor 4 Princeton 5 UC Berkeley 5 Yale 7 UC San Diego 8 Duke 8 UChicago 10 Columbia 10 MIT 10 UCLA 11 Cornell 11 U of Wisconsin Madison 13 UNC Chapel Hill 13 UPenn
Immunology
1 Harvard 2 Stanford 3 UC San Francisco 4 Yale 5 Johns Hopkins 5 Washington University St. Louis 7 Rockefeller University 7 UPenn 9 Duke 9 U of Texas Southwestern Medical Center - Dallas
Linguistics
1 MIT 2 Stanford 3 UCLA 4 U Massachusetts 5 UPenn 6 UChicago 7 UC Berkeley 8 Ohio State 9 Cornell 10 UC Santa Cruz 11 U Texas 12 USC 13 U Arizona
Mathematics
1 Princeton 2 Harvard 2 MIT 2 Stanford 2 UC Berkeley 6 UChicago 7 Caltech 7 Yale 9 Columbia 9 NYU 9 U of Michigan Ann Arbor 12 UCLA 13 Cornell
Molecular Biology
1 Harvard 2 MIT 3 Stanford 4 UCSF 5 UCB 6 Caltech 6 Rockefeller University 8 Johns Hopkins 8 Princeton 8 Yale
Music
1 Harvard 1 UChicago 3 UC Berkeley 4 CUNY 5 Yale 6 Princeton 7 UPenn 8 Rochester 9 U Michigan 10 U Illinois 11 Cornell 12 Columbia 13 Brandeis
Neuroscience
1 UC San Diego 2 Yale 3 Harvard 4 UC San Francisco 5 Stanford 6 Columbia 7 Johns Hopkins 8 Washington St. Louis 9 UC Berkeley 10 UPenn 11 Caltech 12 U Washington 13 Rockefeller Institute
Nuclear Physics
1 MIT 2 Michigan State 3 U of Washington 4 SUNY Stony Brook 5 Yale
Paleontology
1 UChicago 2 Harvard 3 UMichigan 3 Yale 5 UCB 6 U of Kansas 7 U of Cincinnati 8 U of Iowa 9 UT Austin 10 Ohio State
Philosophy
1 Princeton 2 U Pittsburgh 3 Harvard 4 UC Berkeley 5 UCLA 6 Stanford 7 U MIchigan 8 Cornell
9 MIT 10 U Arizona 11 UChicago 12 Rutgers 13 Brown
Plasma Physics
1 Princeton 2 MIT 2 U of Maryland 2 U of Wisconsin 5 UT Austin 6 UCLA 7 UCB 7 UCSD 9 U of Iowa 10 U of Colorado
Political Science
1 Harvard 2 Stanford 3 U of Michigan Ann Arbor 4 Princeton 5 UC Berkeley 5 Yale 7 UC San Diego 8 Duke 8 UChicago 10 Columbia 10 MIT 10 UCLA 13 Ohio State 13 UNC Chapel Hill 13 Rochester
Political Theory
1 Harvard 2 Princeton 3 UChicago 4 Yale 5 UCB
Psychology
1 Stanford 2 UC Berkeley 3 U of Michigan Ann Arbor 4 Yale 5 Harvard 5 Princeton 5 UCLA 5 U of Illinois Urbana Champaign 9 CMU 9 Harvard 9 U of Wisconsin Madison 12 MIT 12 Stanford 12 UT Austin 12 U of Minnesota Twin Cities
Physics
1 MIT 1 Stanford 3 Caltech 3 Harvard 3 Princeton 3 UC Berkeley 7 Cornell 8 UChicago 8 U of Illinois Urbana Champaign 10 UC Santa Barbara 11 Columbia 11 Yale 13 U of Maryland College Park 13 U of Michigan Ann Arbor 13 UPenn
Quantum Physics
1 MIT 2 Harvard 3 Caltech 4 Princeton 4 Stanford 4 U of Colorado
Religion
1 Chicago 2 Harvard 3 Princeton 4 Duke 5 Emory 6 UVA 7 Vanderbilt 8 Princeton 9 UC Santa Barbara 10 UPenn 11 Jewish Theological Seminary 12 Notre Dame 13 Hebrew Union
Sociology
1 UChicago 2 U Wisconsin 3 UC Berkeley 4 U Michigan 5 UCLA 6 UNC 7 Harvard 8 Stanford 9 Northwestern 10 U Washington 11 UPenn 12 IU 13 Princeton
Spanish
1 Columbia 2 Duke 3 Brown 4 Princeton 5 UVA 6 UPenn 7 U Wisconsin 8 Cornell 9 UC Berkeley 10 Harvard 11 U Kansas 12 U Texas 13 U Michigan
Statistics
1 Stanford 2 UC Berkeley 3 Cornell 4 UChicago 5 U Washington 6 Harvard 7 U Wisconsin 8 Purdue 9 UNC 10 UCLA 11 U Minnesota 12 Iowa State 13 Texas A&M
String Theory/Elementary Particles
1 Caltech 1 MIT 3 Harvard 4 Princeton 5 UCB 6 Stanford 7 UCSB 7 UChicago 9 Cornell 10 Columbia
Topology
1 UCB 2 Princeton 3 Harvard 4 UChicago 5 MIT
Source: US News 2009
* Suggested Reading: Subject Ranking of US Universities
