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Rankings of graduate programs at Northwestern University

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

Arts and Humanities
Comparative Literary Studies
Ranked from 15–32 out of 46 peer programs
English
Ranked from 9–28 out of 119 peer programs
French and Italian
Ranked from 7–16 out of 43 peer programs
History
Ranked from 24–44 out of 137 peer programs
Art History
Ranked from 4–15 out of 58 peer programs
Music Studies
Ranked from 7–18 out of 62 peer programs
Performance Studies
Ranked from 2–6 out of 27 peer programs
Theatre and Drama
Ranked from 5–14 out of 27 peer programs

Communication
Communication Studies
Ranked from 42–66 out of 83 peer programs

Engineering
Biomedical Engineering
Ranked from 13–43 out of 74 peer programs
Chemical and Biological Engineering
Ranked from 6–26 out of 106 peer programs
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Ranked from 8–24 out of 130 peer programs
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Ranked from 8–27 out of 136 peer programs
Materials Science and Engineering
Ranked from 4–20 out of 83 peer programs
Mechanical Engineering
Ranked from 2–5 out of 127 peer programs
Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences
Ranked from 1–9 out of 72 peer programs

Health Sciences
Psychology
Ranked from 33–67 out of 236 peer programs

Life Sciences
Interdepartmental Biological and Life Sciences Program
Ranked from 11–31 out of 121 peer programs
NU Interdepartmental Neuroscience Program (NUIN)
Ranked from 40–80 out of 94 peer programs

Physical Sciences and Mathematics
Applied Mathematics
Ranked from 4–13 out of 33 peer programs
Physics and Astronomy
Ranked from 26–84 out of 161 peer programs
Chemistry
Ranked from 3–10 out of 178 peer programs
Computer Science
Ranked from 26–74 out of 127 peer programs
Earth and Planetary Sciences
Ranked from 33–80 out of 141 peer programs
Mathematics
Ranked from 31–62 out of 127 peer programs
Statistics
Ranked from 23–41 out of 61 peer programs

Social and Behavioral Sciences
Anthropology
Ranked from 3–11 out of 82 peer programs
Economics
Ranked from 12–19 out of 117 peer programs
Linguistics
Ranked from 3–9 out of 52 peer programs
Political Science
Ranked from 27–41 out of 105 peer programs
Sociology
Ranked from 28–52 out of 118 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.