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Rankings of graduate programs at Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Rankings of graduate programs from the latest National Research Council study.

Arts and Humanities
History, Theory and Criticism
Ranked from 3–14 out of 58 peer programs
Philosophy
Ranked from 4–11 out of 90 peer programs

Engineering
Aeronautics and Astronautics
Ranked from 7–17 out of 31 peer programs
Biological Engineering, Health Science and Technology
Ranked from 3–17 out of 74 peer programs
Chemical Engineering
Ranked from 3–10 out of 106 peer programs
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Ranked from 7–33 out of 130 peer programs
Computer Science
Ranked from 3–9 out of 127 peer programs
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Ranked from 6–15 out of 136 peer programs
Material Sciences and Engineering
Ranked from 3–15 out of 83 peer programs
Mechanical Engineering
Ranked from 7–19 out of 127 peer programs
Operations Research
Ranked from 1–5 out of 72 peer programs

Health Sciences
Applied Biosciences
Ranked from 5–40 out of 116 peer programs

Life Sciences
Biology/Biochemistry and Biophysics
Ranked from 1–6 out of 157 peer programs
Biology/Cell and Developmental
Ranked from 1–3 out of 122 peer programs
Biology/Genetics and Genomics
Ranked from 1–4 out of 65 peer programs
Neuroscience
Ranked from 1–6 out of 94 peer programs

Physical Sciences and Mathematics
Applied Mathematics
Ranked from 2–9 out of 33 peer programs
Astrophysics and Astronomy and Planetary Science
Ranked from 6–20 out of 33 peer programs
Chemistry
Ranked from 6–18 out of 178 peer programs
Geology and Geochemistry and Geophysics
Ranked from 9–28 out of 141 peer programs
Mathematics
Ranked from 5–11 out of 127 peer programs
MIT-WHOI Joint Program in Chemical Oceanography
Ranked from 5–22 out of 50 peer programs
MIT-WHOI Joint Program in Physical Oceanography
Ranked from 5–22 out of 50 peer programs
Physics
Ranked from 4–24 out of 161 peer programs

Social and Behavioral Sciences
Economics
Ranked from 2–2 out of 117 peer programs
Linguistics
Ranked from 8–20 out of 52 peer programs
Political Science
Ranked from 4–19 out of 105 peer programs
Cognitive Science
Ranked from 2–14 out of 236 peer programs

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 National Postdoctoral Association and The Center for Science and the Media have served as the project's fiscal sponsors.