<p>WashU’s #12 ranking in USNWR is supported by the Center for Measuring University Performance study, which ranks research universities on nine different measures. </p>
<p><a href=“http://mup.asu.edu/research2007.pdf[/url]”>http://mup.asu.edu/research2007.pdf</a></p>
<p>WU is #15 on the list for public universities and privates combined and #8 on the list for privates only. Supported by data, not opinion. </p>
<p>In another thread recently, longtime poster and moderator Alexandre described WashU and also Dartmouth as “quasi-LAC research universities” and that’s a good description. No one goes around dumping on Dartmouth because it’s graduate programs in math, chemistry, biology, physics, psychology are much lower ranked than HYP and major public universities. In fact several of WashU’s grad programs — bio, psychology, chemistry, and math — are ranked higher than Dartmouth’s. In engineering, WashU ranks higher than Brown or Dartmouth. And WashU’s chemistry grad program is tied in the ranking with Duke’s. </p>
<p>WashU’s medical school is in the top 10, it’s law school is in the top 20 and it’s business school is in the top 25 of programs in the country. Using grad and professional schools as the basis for judgment alone, it’s much easier in my opinion to justify WashU’s #12 ranking in USNWR than it is to justify Dartmouth at #11.</p>