Please help me make a decision: Major Physics

fauve
Sat, 02 Apr 2016 20:29:16 +0000

According to my ‘expert’ you want to go to the most highly ranked physics program and Illinois is in the top ten and Wisconsin is close to that, NEU and Case are reasonable second tier in physics, while Illinois and WI are top tier in physics. Being private will not make a difference in grad school applications in physics unless they are more highly ranked in the field, which in this case, they are not.

For privates, Harvard, MIT, Stanford, Princeton, CalTech are top-ranked in physics.