<p>In addition, two professors wrote a research report and later book title “the Rise of the American Research University”. That book used NRC data, factored out reputational rankings (which the authors viewed as being lagging indicators of academic quality, but which are included in the last NRC survey) and adjusted the analysis for a school’s size (trying to eliminated a bias for large research oriented universities). </p>
<p>The result was a new comprehensive ranking for universities. The list below is their comprehensive ranking for social sciences, natural sciences and fine arts.</p>
<p>1 Stanford
2 Princeton
3 Chicago (tie)
3 Harvard (tie)
3 Yale (tie)
6 Columbia
7 Duke (tie)
8 Penn (tie)
9 Johns Hopkins</p>
<p>Public schools such as Berkeley and Michigan were in a separate ranking. Other schools such as Cornell, Brown, Emory, etc were not in the top 12.</p>