Ranking of Physics Graduate Schools

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Programs 1–30

Rank	Program	Survey Quality
1-3	Harvard University Physics	1-3
1-6	Princeton University Physics	1-6
1-7	Harvard University DEAS-Applied Physics	1-7
2-11	University of California-Berkeley Physics	2-11
2-24	University of Hawaii at Manoa Physics	2-24
3-20	California Institute of Technology Physics	3-20
3-18	University of California-Santa Barbara Physics	3-18
4-24	Massachusetts Institute of Technology Physics	4-24
5-33	Columbia University in the City of New York Physics	5-33
5-27	Pennsylvania State University-Main Campus Physics	5-27
6-32	University of Chicago Physics	6-32
6-31	University of Pennsylvania Physics and Astronomy	6-31
6-31	California Institute of Technology Applied Physics	6-31
7-35	Cornell University Physics	7-35
7-35	Stanford University Physics	7-35
Rank	Program	Survey Quality
7-39	Yale University Physics	7-39
8-39	Boston University Physics	8-39
8-46	Tulane University of Louisiana Physics	8-46
8-40	University of Colorado at Boulder Physics	8-40
9-47	Michigan State University Physics	9-47
9-46	University of California-Irvine Physics	9-46
8-50	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Physics	8-50
10-49	Carnegie Mellon University Physics	10-49
10-44	Stony Brook University Physics and Astronomy	10-44
10-47	Johns Hopkins University Physics	10-47
10-49	University of California-Santa Cruz Physics	10-49
13-56	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor Physics	13-56
14-56	University of California-San Diego Physics	14-56
14-64	University of Rochester Physics	14-64
17-54	University of Maryland-College Park Physics	17-54

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