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
#17 Cornell University

Ithaca, NY

#14 Georgia Institute of Technology

Atlanta, GA

#14 Princeton University

Princeton, NJ

#14 University of California–​Los Angeles

Los Angeles, CA

#12 University of California–​Irvine

Irvine, CA

#12 University of Texas–​Austin

Austin, TX

#11 Columbia University

New York, NY

#10 University of Illinois–​Urbana-​Champaign

Urbana, IL

#9 Northwestern University

Evanston, IL

#8 University of Colorado–​Boulder

Boulder, CO

#7 University of Wisconsin–​Madison

Madison, WI

#6 University of Chicago

Chicago, IL

#5 Harvard University

Cambridge, MA

#4 Stanford University

Stanford, CA

#3 California Institute of Technology

Pasadena, CA

#2 Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Cambridge, MA

#1 University of California–​Berkeley

Berkeley, CA

Morse Code: Inside the College Rankings by Bob Morse
Updates to 2 Schools' 2013 Best Colleges Ranks

University of Mary Hardin–Baylor and York College of Pennsylvania are now in the ‘Unranked’ category.

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