Physical

Ranked in 2010, part of Chemistry

Solids, liquids, and gases are the subject material for physical chemists, who study, research, and test how each material reacts. Math and physics are also stressed in coursework. These are the best science schools for physical chemistry.

Rank School name
#1 University of California–​Berkeley

Berkeley, CA

#2 Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Cambridge, MA

#3 California Institute of Technology

Pasadena, CA

#4 Stanford University

Stanford, CA

#5 Harvard University

Cambridge, MA

#6 University of Chicago

Chicago, IL

#7 University of Wisconsin–​Madison

Madison, WI

#8 University of Colorado–​Boulder

Boulder, CO

#9 Northwestern University

Evanston, IL

#10 University of Illinois–​Urbana-​Champaign

Urbana, IL

#11 Columbia University

New York, NY

#12 University of California–​Irvine

Irvine, CA

#12 University of Texas–​Austin

Austin, TX

#14 Georgia Institute of Technology

Atlanta, GA

#14 Princeton University

Princeton, NJ

#14 University of California–​Los Angeles

Los Angeles, CA

#17 Cornell University

Ithaca, NY

Morse Code: Inside the College Rankings by Bob Morse
Correcting Dominican University of California's 2011 Admissions Statistics

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