Rank/School

Average assessment
score (5.0 = highest)

1.

California Institute of Technology

4.9

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

4.9

Stanford University (CA)

4.9

University of California--Berkeley

4.9

5.

Harvard University (MA)

4.8

6.

Scripps Research Institute (CA)

4.6

7.

University of Illinois--Urbana-Champaign

4.5

University of Wisconsin--Madison

4.5

9.

Cornell University (NY)

4.4

Northwestern University (IL)

4.4

11.

Columbia University (NY)

4.3

12.

University of California--Los Angeles

4.2

University of Chicago

4.2

University of Texas--Austin

4.2

15.

Yale University (CT)

4.1

16.

Pennsylvania State University--University Park

4.0

Princeton University (NJ)

4.0

University of Michigan--Ann Arbor

4.0

University of North Carolina--Chapel Hill

4.0

20.

University of California--San Diego

3.9

University of Pennsylvania

3.9

22.

Purdue University--West Lafayette (IN)

3.8

Texas A&M University--College Station

3.8

University of California--Irvine

3.8

University of Minnesota--Twin Cities

3.8

26.

Georgia Institute of Technology

3.7

University of California--Santa Barbara

3.7

28.

Johns Hopkins University (MD)

3.6

Ohio State University

3.6

Rice University (TX)

3.6

University of California--San Francisco

3.6

University of Colorado--Boulder

3.6

University of Washington

3.6

34.

Indiana University--Bloomington

3.5

University of California--Davis

3.5

36.

Emory University (GA)

3.4

Iowa State University

3.4

Michigan State University

3.4

University of Arizona

3.4

University of Florida

3.4

University of Maryland--College Park

3.4

University of Utah

3.4

43.

Colorado State University

3.3

Duke University (NC)

3.3

University of Pittsburgh

3.3

University of Southern California

3.3

Washington University in St. Louis

3.3

48.

Florida State University

3.2

University of California--Riverside

3.2

50.

Arizona State University

3.1

Boston College

3.1

Carnegie Mellon University (PA)

3.1

North Carolina State University

3.1

SUNY--Stony Brook

3.1

University of Georgia

3.1

University of Massachusetts--Amherst

3.1

University of Rochester (NY)

3.1

University of Virginia

3.1

59.

Brown University (RI)

3.0

University of Oregon

3.0

Vanderbilt University (TN)

3.0

62.

Boston University

2.9

University of Delaware

2.9

University of Illinois--Chicago

2.9

University of Iowa

2.9

University of Kansas

2.9

University of Notre Dame (IN)

2.9

68.

Brandeis University (MA)

2.8

Case Western Reserve University (OH)

2.8

Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey--New Brunswick

2.8

University at Buffalo--SUNY

2.8

Virginia Tech

2.8

Wayne State University (MI)

2.8

74.

Dartmouth College (NH)

2.7

Louisiana State University--Baton Rouge

2.7

New York University

2.7

Oregon State University

2.7

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (NY)

2.7

University of Nebraska--Lincoln

2.7

Washington State University

2.7

81.

Syracuse University (NY)

2.6

University of California--Santa Cruz

2.6

University of Connecticut

2.6

University of Houston

2.6

University of Missouri--Columbia

2.6

University of South Carolina

2.6

University of Tennessee--Knoxville

2.6

88.

Clemson University (SC)

2.5

Kansas State University

2.5

Tufts University (MA)

2.5

University of Cincinnati

2.5