Rank the following schools in terms of undergrad biology prestige in academia

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<p>All of the schools on your list would be great places to study biology as an undergraduate, but, as is often the case, general institutional prestige does not always correlate with the prestige of particular programs within those institutions. </p>

<p>If you are looking for independent judgments from the academic community (rather than just our personal opinions here on the College Confidential boards), they can be found in the recently released National Research Council rankings which have long been considered the “gold standard” for such evaluations. Those rankings are for graduate programs but, in general, there will be a close relationship between graduate school reputation and undergraduate program reputation. The NRC rankings were reported in a non-ordinal way through the use of ranges, but the ranges can still be averaged to provide a clearer picture. The data on which the rankings were based are now about five years old but they are the most current available. The results are analyzed here:</p>

<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/princeton-university/1006939-princeton-2010-national-research-council-nrc-rankings-news-item.html?highlight=national+research+council[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/princeton-university/1006939-princeton-2010-national-research-council-nrc-rankings-news-item.html?highlight=national+research+council&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>In the biological sciences, this is how the NRC saw it in terms of academic reputation as measured by an averaging of their “R” and “S” rankings.</p>

<p>BIOLOGY</p>

<p>1—Cal Tech
2—UC San Diego
3—UC San Diego (different department)
4—Princeton
5—Rockefeller U.
6—Stanford
7—UCSF
8—Yale
9—Yale (different department)
10–Columbia</p>

<p>ECOLOGY & EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY</p>

<p>1—WUSTL
2—Princeton
3—Duke
4—Harvard
5—UC Davis
6—Indiana U.
7—U. of Chicago
8—Berkeley</p>