Physics Program Rankings

Physics Citation / Faculty Average = 49.57

Physics Citation / Faculty Standard Deviation = 30.49

Rank Institution Citation / Faculty Z-score

1.0 University of California @ Santa Barbara 178.1 4.21548

2.0 Harvard University 170.7 3.97278

3.0 Massachusetts Institute of Technology 121.2 2.34929

4.0 California Institute of Technology 116.1 2.18203

5.0 Princeton University 110.0 1.98196

6.0 University of Minnesota 92.8 1.41784

7.0 Johns Hopkins University 89.1 1.29649

8.0 Northwestern University 88.5 1.27681

9.0 University of California @ San Diego 88.2 1.26697

10.0 University of Illinois @ Urbana 86.2 1.20138

11.0 University of California @ Berkeley 84.7 1.15218

12.0 University of Chicago 84.2 1.13578

13.0 Brandeis University 83.3 1.10626

14.0 University of Rochester 82.9 1.09315

15.0 University of Arizona 80.2 1.00459

16.0 University of Southern California 79.2 0.97179

17.0 University of California @ Santa Cruz 78.6 0.95212

18.5 Rice University 77.2 0.90620

18.5 Iowa State University 77.2 0.90620

20.0 Boston University 77.0 0.89964

21.0 Stanford University 73.8 0.79469

22.0 University of California @ Los Angeles 70.9 0.69957

23.0 Rutgers University @ New Brunswick 69.8 0.66350

24.0 Cornell University 69.6 0.65694

25.0 Georgia Institute of Technology 68.9 0.63398

26.0 Columbia University 68.6 0.62414

27.0 University of Pennsylvania 66.2 0.54542

28.0 State University of New York @ Stony Brook 65.1 0.50935

29.0 University of Oregon 64.9 0.50279

30.0 Yale University 63.1 0.44375

31.0 North Carolina State University 61.4 0.38800

32.0 University of Washington 60.8 0.36832

33.0 University of Texas @ Austin 60.4 0.35520

34.0 Ohio State University 57.4 0.25681

35.0 Syracuse University 56.0 0.21089

36.5 University of Wisconsin @ Milwaukee 54.7 0.16825

36.5 University of Rochester 54.7 0.16825

38.0 University of Utah 54.4 0.15841

39.0 Case Western Reserve University 54.0 0.14529

40.0 University of Illinois @ Chicago 53.7 0.13545

41.0 University of Maryland @ College Park 50.0 0.01410

42.0 University of Wisconsin @ Madison 49.8 0.00754

43.0 Purdue University 48.4 -0.03837

44.0 Notre Dame University 47.9 -0.05477

45.5 Brown University 47.4 -0.07117

45.5 Arizona State University 47.4 -0.07117

47.0 Louisiana State University and A & M College 47.0 -0.08429

48.0 University of Colorado 46.9 -0.08757

49.0 Michigan State University 46.5 -0.10069

50.0 State University of New York @ Buffalo 45.7 -0.12693

51.0 University of Iowa 44.4 -0.16956

52.5 Indiana University 43.6 -0.19580

52.5 Texas A & M University 43.6 -0.19580

54.0 Kansas State University 43.5 -0.19908

55.0 Dartmouth College 41.4 -0.26796

56.0 University of Kansas 41.0 -0.28108

57.0 University of California @ Davis 40.5 -0.29747

58.0 University of Missouri @ Columbia 40.0 -0.31387

59.0 Tufts University 39.3 -0.33683

60.0 Washington University 38.9 -0.34995

61.0 CUNY Graduate School 37.5 -0.39587

62.0 University of Michigan 37.4 -0.39915

63.0 Carnegie Mellon University 35.9 -0.44834

64.0 Kent State University 35.8 -0.45162

65.0 University of Tennessee @ Knoxville 35.3 -0.46802

66.0 New York University 34.7 -0.48770

67.0 Florida State University 34.4 -0.49754

68.0 University of Florida 34.0 -0.51066

69.0 University of Delaware 33.1 -0.54018

70.0 University of Pittsburgh 31.3 -0.59921

71.0 Pennsylvania State University 31.0 -0.60905

72.0 University of Houston 30.7 -0.61889

73.0 University of Connecticut 30.2 -0.63529

74.0 University of South Carolina 29.4 -0.66153

75.5 University of Georgia 29.0 -0.67465

75.5 University of Nebraska @ Lincoln 29.0 -0.67465

77.0 University of Virginia 28.3 -0.69761

78.0 University of Hawaii 28.2 -0.70089

79.0 University of California @ Irvine 27.7 -0.71728

80.0 State University of New York @ Albany 27.4 -0.72712

81.0 Duke University 26.8 -0.74680

82.0 George Washington University 26.3 -0.76320

83.0 University of Massachusetts @ Amherst 26.1 -0.76976

84.0 Tulane University 24.5 -0.82224

85.0 Texas Tech University 24.3 -0.82880

86.0 University of Alabama @ Birmingham 24.0 -0.83864

87.0 Auburn University 22.0 -0.90423

88.0 University of Kentucky 21.1 -0.93375

89.0 University of North Carolina @ Chapel Hill 20.3 -0.95999

90.5 University of Miami 20.1 -0.96655

90.5 Oklahoma State University 20.1 -0.96655

92.0 Ohio University 19.8 -0.97639

93.0 Lehigh University 19.5 -0.98622

94.0 Vanderbilt University 18.3 -1.02558

95.0 Virginia Tech 18.0 -1.03542

96.0 Temple University 17.6 -1.04854

97.0 Catholic University 17.3 -1.05838

98.0 Washington State University 16.9 -1.07150

99.0 Howard University 16.6 -1.08134

100.0 Colorado State University 15.7 -1.11086

101.0 University of Oklahoma 14.3 -1.15677

102.0 University of Cincinnati 14.2 -1.16005

103.0 Oregon State University 14.1 -1.16333

104.0 University of California @ Riverside 10.7 -1.27484

105.0 University of Alabama @ Tuscaloosa 9.5 -1.31420