Good college for Physics and Math?

noimagination
Fri, 04 Jun 2010 20:57:22 +0000

[NRC Rankings in Each of 41 Areas](NRC Rankings in Each of 41 Areas)
The NRC rankings are very old and intended for graduate programs, but any school that scores highly on them is probably not terrible. I took the top 40 in both math and physics and found 31 schools on both lists, sorted by total score:

Princeton
Cal Berkeley
Harvard
MIT
Chicago
Stanford
Cal Tech
Cornell
Yale
Illinois
Columbia
UCLA
Michigan
Texas
Cal San Diego
Maryland
Penn
Washington
Wisconsin
Minnesota
Rutgers
SUNY Stony Brook
Brown
Ohio State
Purdue
Johns Hopkins
Rice
Northwestern
CUNY
Carnegie Mellon
Indiana