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Graduate School Rankings

There are a lot of university rankings. These are different.

Instead of ranking programs according to someone else's priorities, we let you choose what's important. Tell us what you are looking for in a graduate school, and we will generate a ranking of departments designed just for you.

Our data are different, too. We have statistics on where recent students got jobs when they graduated, not just information on program reputations. You won't find this kind of information anywhere else!

23,517 programs at 2,356 universities are ranked.

Step 1: Choose Your Field

• Agricultural Sciences

  • Agricultural Sciences
    Agricultural Business & Management; Agricultural Animal Breeding; Animal Nutrition; Dairy Science; Poultry Science; Agronomy & Crop Science; Agricultural & Horticultural Plant Breeding; Plant Pathology (Agricultural); Food Science; Soil Chemistry/Microbiology; Horticulture Science; Fishing And Fisheries Science & Management; Forest Sciences And Biology; Forest Engineering; Forest/Resources Management; Wood Science & Pulp/Paper Technology; Natural Resources/Conservation; Wildlife/Range Management; Environmental Science; Agriculture, General

• Arts and Humanities

  • Art History
  • Classics
  • Comparative Literature
  • English Language and Literature
    Literature, English; English Language; Literature, American
  • French Language and Literature
  • German Language and Literature
  • History
    History, American; History, Asian; History, European; History, African; History, Latin American; History/Philosophy Of Science & Technology; History, General
  • Music
  • Philosophy
  • Religion
  • Spanish and Portuguese Language and Literature

• Biological Sciences

  • Anatomy
  • Biochemistry
  • Biology
  • Biophysics
  • Biostatistics, Bioinformatics, and Epidemiology
    Biometrics & Biostatistics; Epidemiology
  • Botany
    Botany/Plant Biology; Plant Pathology (Biological); Plant Physiology
  • Cell Biology
  • Ecology
  • Entomology
  • Environmental Studies
  • Genetics
    Plant Genetics; Genetics, Human & Animal
  • Microbiology, Immunology, and Virology
    Microbiology; Immunology; Parasitology
  • Molecular Biology
  • Neuroscience
  • Nutrition
  • Pathology
  • Pharmacology
  • Physiology
  • Zoology

• Business Management/Administrative Services

  • Accounting
  • Business Administration & Management
  • Business/Managerial Economics
  • Human Resources Development
  • International Business/Trade/Commerce
  • Management Information Systems/Business Data
  • Marketing Management & Research
  • Operations Research
  • Organizational Behavior

• Communication, Journalism, and Related Programs

  • Journalism
  • Mass Communication/Media Studies
  • Public Relations, Advertising, and Applied Communication
  • Radio, Television, and Digital Communication

• Education

  • Education Administration
    Educational Administration & Supervision; Educational Leadership
  • Education Research
    Curriculum & Instruction; Educational/Instructional Media Design; Educational Statistics/Research Methods; Educational Assessment/Testing/Measure; Educational Psychology; School Psychology; Social/Philosophical Foundations Of Education; Special Education; Counseling Education/Counseling & Guidance; Higher Education/Evaluation & Research
  • Teacher Education
    Education, Pre-Elementary/Early Childhood; Education, Elementary; Education, Secondary; Education, Adult & Continuing
  • Teaching Fields
    Teaching, Agricultural Education; Teaching, Art Education; Teaching, Business Education; Teaching, English Education; Teaching, Foreign Languages Education; Teaching, Health Education; Teaching, Family & Consumer Sciences/Home Economics Education; Teaching, Technology & Industrial Arts Education; Teaching, Mathematics Education; Teaching, Music Education; Teaching, Nursing Education; Teaching, Physical Education & Coaching; Teaching, Reading Education; Teaching, Science Education; Teaching, Social Science Education; Teaching, Technical Education; Teaching, Trade & Industrial Education; Teacher Education & Professional Development

• Engineering

  • Aerospace Engineering
  • Agricultural Engineering
  • Biomedical Engineering
  • Chemical Engineering
    Chemical Engineering; Petroleum Engineering; Polymer & Plastics Engineering
  • Civil Engineering
    Civil Engineering; Environmental Health Engineering
  • Electrical Engineering
    Communications Engineering; Computer Engineering; Electrical & Electronics Engineering
  • Engineering Science and Engineering Physics
  • Industrial/Manufacturing Engineering
  • Mechanical Engineering
    Engineering Mechanics; Mechanical Engineering
  • Metallurgical and Materials Engineering
    Ceramic Sciences Engineering; Materials Science Engineering; Metallurgical Engineering
  • Mining Engineering
  • Nuclear Engineering
  • Petroleum Engineering

• Health Sciences

  • Environmental Health
  • Health Sciences, General
  • Kinesiology/Exercise Science
  • Nursing
  • Pharmacy
  • Public Health
  • Rehabilitation/Therapeutic Services
  • Speech-Language Pathology & Audiology
  • Veterinary Medicine

• Other

  • Architecture
  • Family/Consumer Sciences/Human Sciences
  • Law
  • Library Science
  • Parks/Sports/Recreation/Leisure/Fitness
  • Public Administration
  • Social Work
  • Theology/Religious Education

• Physical Sciences / Computer Science / Mathematics

  • Astronomy
    Astronomy; Astrophysics
  • Atmospheric Sciences
    Atmospheric Chemistry And Climatology; Atmospheric Physics And Dynamics; Meteorology; Atmospheric Science/Meteorology, General
  • Chemistry
    Chemistry, Analytical; Chemistry, Inorganic; Chemistry, Nuclear; Chemistry, Organic; Chemistry, Medicinal/Pharmaceutical; Chemistry, Physical; Chemistry, Polymer; Chemistry, Theoretical; Chemistry, General
  • Computer Science
    Computer Science; Information Science & Systems
  • Geosciences
    Geology; Geochemistry; Geophysics & Seismology; Paleontology; Mineralogy & Petrology; Stratigraphy & Sedimentation; Geomorphology & Glacial Geology; Geological & Earth Sciences, General
  • Mathematics and Applied Mathematics
    Applied Mathematics; Mathematics, Algebra; Mathematics, Analysis & Functional Analysis; Mathematics, Geometry; Mathematics, Logic; Mathematics, Number Theory; Mathematics, Topology; Mathematics, Computing Theory & Practice; Mathematics, Operations Research; Mathematics, General
  • Ocean Sciences
    Hydrology & Water Resources; Oceanography; Marine Sciences
  • Physics
    Physics, Acoustics; Physics, Atomic/Molecular/Chemical; Physics, Elementary Particle; Biophysics; Physics, Fluids; Physics, Nuclear; Physics, Optics/Phototonics; Physics, Plasma/Fusion; Physics, Polymer; Physics, Condensed Matter/Low Temp; Applied Physics; Physics, General
  • Statistics

• Psychology

  • Psychology, Clinical
  • Psychology, Except Clinical
    Psychology, Cognitive & Psycholinguistics; Psychology, Comparative; Psychology, Counseling; Psychology, Developmental & Child; Psychology, Human Development And Family Studies; Psychology, Experimental; Psychology, Educational; Psychology, Family; Psychology, Industrial & Organizational; Psychology, Personality; Psychology, Physiological/Psychobiology; Psychology, Psychometrics; Psychology, Psychometrics And Quantitative; Psychology, School; Psychology, Social; Psychology, General

• Social Sciences

  • Agricultural Economics
  • Anthropology
  • Economics
    Economics; Econometrics
  • Geography
  • Linguistics
  • Political Science
  • Sociology

The graduate school rankings on phds.org have been made possible by grants from The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and The Burroughs Wellcome Fund. The Center for Science and the Media served as the fiscal sponsor for the project.