Best Neuroscience Programs?

posterX · August 2, 2007, 1:36pm

The rankings above are incorrect. There are actually a lot of ties.

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Neuroscience Rankings of best departments below.

Yale, Johns Hopkins, and UCSF (which doesn’t have undergrad) are the only schools that show up among the top 10 in all three measures.

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2005 Academic Analytics / Chronicle of Higher Education

1 Yale U. 1.90 80
2 Vanderbilt U. 1.89 58
3 Johns Hopkins U. 1.78 26
4 Mayo Graduate School 1.71 37
5 U. of California at San Francisco 1.68 65
5 Duke U. 1.68 25
7 Brandeis U. 1.67 20
8 U. of California at Berkeley 1.58 39
9 U. of Pittsburgh 1.54 69
10 U. of Pennsylvania 1.51 92

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2002 Sciencewatch/ISI (based on quality of 1997-2001 research)

1 Caltech 319 +124
2 Rockefeller University 537 +111
3 MIT 429 +107
4 Univ. Calif., San Francisco 1,424 +106
5 Washington University 1,258 +105
6 Harvard University 2,997 +95
7 Yale University 1,738 +76
8 Oregon Health Sci. Univ. 729 +72
9 Univ. Illinois, Urbana 315 +71
10 Johns Hopkins University 1,897 +71

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1995 National Research Council / Faculty Quality

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<li>University of California-San Diego 8.6 4.8 </li>
<li>Yale University 8.6 4.8 </li>
<li>Harvard University 8.1 4.7 </li>
<li>University of California-San Francisco 8.1 4.7 </li>
<li>Columbia University in the City of New York 7.6 4.6 </li>
<li>Stanford University 7.6 4.6 </li>
<li>Johns Hopkins University 7.2 4.5 </li>
<li>Washington University in St Louis 6.7 4.4 </li>
<li>California Institute of Technology 6.2 4.3 </li>
<li>University of California-Berkeley 6.2 4.3 </li>
<li>University of Pennsylvania 6.2 4.3 </li>
<li>University of Washington-Seattle Campus 6.2 4.3 </li>
<li>Massachusetts Institute of Technology 5.8 4.2 </li>
<li>Rockefeller University 5.8 4.2 </li>
<li>University of California-Los Angeles 4.4 3.9 </li>
<li>Baylor College of Medicine 3.9 3.8 </li>
<li>Brandeis University 3.9 3.8 </li>
<li>Case Western Reserve University 3.9 3.8 </li>
<li>Duke University 3.9 3.8 </li>
<li>University of Michigan-Ann Arbor 3.9 3.8 </li>
<li>University of California-Irvine (Psychobiology, School of Arts and Sciences) 3.5 3.7 </li>
<li>Cornell University 3.0 3.6 </li>
<li>Northwestern University 3.0 3.6 </li>
<li>University of Chicago 3.0 3.6 </li>
<li>University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 3.0 3.6 </li>
<li>University of Wisconsin-Madison 3.0 3.6 </li>
<li>Yeshiva University 3.0 3.6 </li>
<li>Emory University 2.5 3.5 </li>
<li>Stony Brook University 2.5 3.5 </li>
<li>University of Iowa 2.5 3.5 </li>
<li>University of Oregon 2.5 3.5 </li>
<li>University of Virginia-Main Campus 2.5 3.5 </li>
<li>Vanderbilt University 2.5 3.5 </li>
<li>Mayo School of Health Related Sciences 2.1 3.4 </li>
<li>University of California-Irvine (Anatomy and Neurobiology, School of Medicine) 2.1 3.4 </li>
<li>University of Colorado at Boulder 2.1 3.4 </li>
<li>University of Minnesota-Twin Cities 2.1 3.4 </li>
<li>University of Pittsburgh-Main Campus (Behavioral Neuroscience, School of Arts and Sciences) 2.1 3.4 </li>
<li>University of Southern California 2.1 3.4 </li>
<li>University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas 2.1 3.4 </li>
<li>Colorado State University 1.6 3.3 </li>
<li>The University of Texas Medical Branch 1.6 3.3 </li>
<li>University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 1.6 3.3 </li>
<li>University of Pittsburgh-Main Campus (Neurobiology/Anatomy/Cell Biology, School of Medicine) 1.6 3.3 </li>
<li>University of Rochester 1.6 3.3 </li>
<li>Rutgers University-New Brunswick/Piscataway 1.1 3.2 </li>
<li>University of Arizona 1.1 3.2 </li>
<li>Georgetown University 0.7 3.1 </li>
<li>The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston 0.7 3.1 </li>
<li>The University of Texas at Austin 0.7 3.1 </li>
<li>University of Connecticut (Neuroscience, School of Arts and Sciences) 0.7 3.1 </li>
<li>Brown University 0.2 3.0 </li>
<li>Drexel University 0.2 3.0 </li>
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