Question on Illinois Universities...

[PRodQuanta]

What is the best Illinois Uni. for physics and engineering?

Paden Roder

[Gokul43201]

UC, UIC, UIUC and NW are all pretty darn good ! A tough choice...

[Gokul43201]

NRC Rankings in Physics


1 Harvard 4.91
2 Princeton 4.89
3 MIT 4.87
4 Cal Berkeley 4.87
5 Cal Tech 4.81
6 Cornell 4.75
7 Chicago 4.69
8 Illinois 4.66
9 Stanford 4.53
10 Cal Santa Barbara 4.43
11 Texas 4.33
12 Columbia 4.25
13 Yale 4.21
14 Washington 4.20
15 UCLA 4.18
16 Cal San Diego 4.10
17 Penn 4.09
18 Maryland 4.02
19 Michigan 3.96
20 Rutgers 3.82
21 Wisconsin 3.79
22 SUNY Stony Brook 3.76
23 Minnesota 3.76
24 Ohio State 3.75
25 Rochester 3.65
26 Brown 3.60
27 Carnegie Mellon 3.56
28 Johns Hopkins 3.51
29 Rockefeller 3.46
30 Purdue 3.44
31 Michigan State 3.43
32 Indiana 3.37
33 Cal Irvine 3.37
34 CUNY 3.36
35 Florida 3.35
36 Northwestern 3.31

More (incl. Engg) rankings here (http://stat.tamu.edu/~jnewton/nrc_rankings/nrc41indiv.html)

[Maxwell]

Hey Goku,

That list seems very old! It is outdated, as far as New York is concerned. Not 100% sure about other states.

[somy]

Can anyone show me the link that has the ranking of canadian universities.
Thanks

[Gokul43201]

Hey Goku,

That list seems very old! It is outdated, as far as New York is concerned. Not 100% sure about other states.

You're right. Those numbers are about a decade old. I'll look for more recent ones...