Physics

Ranked in 2010 | Physics Rankings Methodology

Graduate schools for physics typically offer a range of specialty programs, from quantum physics to relativity, as well as plentiful research opportunities to bolster a science education. These are the best physics schools.

Rank	School name	Score
#40	Purdue University–West Lafayette West Lafayette, IN	3.3
#40	Texas A&M University–College Station College Station, TX	3.3
#40	University of California–Santa Cruz Santa Cruz, CA	3.3
#40	University of Virginia Charlottesville, VA	3.3
#40	Washington University in St. Louis St. Louis, MO	3.3
#36	Michigan State University East Lansing, MI	3.4
#36	University of Arizona Tucson, AZ	3.4
#36	University of Florida Gainesville, FL	3.4
#36	University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill Chapel Hill, NC	3.4
#30	Brown University Providence, RI	3.5
#30	Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA	3.5
#30	Duke University Durham, NC	3.5
#30	Georgia Institute of Technology Atlanta, GA	3.5
#30	Northwestern University Evanston, IL	3.5
#30	University of California–Irvine Irvine, CA	3.5
#26	Rice University Houston, TX	3.6
#26	Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey–New Brunswick Piscataway, NJ	3.6
#26	University of California–Davis Davis, CA	3.6
#26	University of Minnesota–Twin Cities Minneapolis, MN	3.6
#23	Ohio State University Columbus, OH	3.7
#23	Pennsylvania State University–University Park University Park, PA	3.7
#23	Stony Brook University–SUNY Stony Brook, NY	3.7
#19	Johns Hopkins University (Rowland) Baltimore, MD	3.9
#19	University of California–Los Angeles Los Angeles, CA	3.9
#19	University of Colorado–Boulder Boulder, CO	3.9

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