College Rankings by Subject: Physics & Astronomy (updated: 2/23/2020)

1. Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2. Harvard University
3. Stanford University
4. University of California, Berkeley (UCB)
5. Princeton University
6. California Institute of Technology (Caltech)
7. University of Chicago
8. University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB)
9. University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
10. Columbia University
11. Yale University
12. Cornell University
13. University of Illinois at Urbana – Champaign
14. University of Michigan
15. University of Maryland, College Park
16. University of Texas at Austin
17. University of Pennsylvania
18. University of California, San Diego (UCSD)
19. Boston University
20. Brown University
21. Carnegie Mellon University
22. Duke University
23. Georgia Institute of Technology
24. Johns Hopkins University
25. New York University (NYU)
26. Northwestern University
27. The Ohio State University
28. Pennsylvania State University
29. Purdue University
30. Rice University
31. Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick
32. University of Colorado Boulder
33. University of Washington
34. University of Wisconsin – Madison
35. Michigan State University
36. Stony Brook University, SUNY
37. The University of Arizona
38. University of California, Davis
39. University of California, Irvine
40. University of California, Santa Cruz
41. University of Minnesota
42. University of Rochester
43. Texas A&M University
44. University of Florida
45. University of Illinois, Chicago (UIC)
46. University of Massachusetts Amherst
47. University of Notre Dame
48. University of Pittsburgh
49. The University of Tennessee, Knoxville
50. University of Virginia
51. Florida State University
52. Indian University Bloomington
53. Northeastern University
54. Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
55. University of California, Riverside
56. University of Southern California
57. Arizona State University
58. Brandeis University
59. City University of New York
60. Iowa State University
61. University of Central Florida
62. University of Iowa
63. University of New Mexico
64. Vanderbilt University
65. Boston College
66. Colorado State University
67. Dartmouth College
68. George Mason University
69. Louisiana State University
70. North Carolina State University
71. Syracuse University
72. Tufts University
73. University at Buffalo SUNY
74. University of Houston
75. University of Kansas
76. University of Nebraska – Lincoln
77. University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
78. University of Oklahoma
79. University of Oregon
80. University of Texas Dallas
81. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
82. Washington University in St. Louis

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