Does PhD pedigree matter?

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 Choosing a School for PhD

This post is inspired in large part by discussion over at Cosmic Variance about the importance of choice of particular graduate school and pedigree effect. Two extreme points of view are: a) pedigree matters a great deal, having a top school name on your resume will enhance your chances of getting a job and b) pedigree effect is non-existent, and if you are smart and do good science, it doesn’t matter where your degree is from. Additional discussion centered on issue of difficulty of “upward” mobility – which means that most people tend to get positions down the ranking ladder from their PhD institutions, not up.
It’s of course difficult to do proper “controlled” measure of pedigree effect – maybe students selected by top program would do just as well in lower ranked programs, who knows.
So let’s ask a different question – how many of the academic jobs in top research universities go to PhDs from the top programs? Ideally one would want to focus on recent hires only, looking at entire faculty makeup means integrating over the past50 or 60 years, with a big hiring spike in sputnik/cold war years. One way to address this issue is to look only at associate and assistant professors, which typically represent recent hires. Another, possibly better, way is to limit by the years of PhD (say count only PhDs obtained past 1995), but it involves more work. I spent about 4 hours compiling the data, and not sure I want to spend much more on this, even though it is a lot of fun and I am a sucker for playing with numbers.
So here’s the statistics, and I will criticize methods later – AIP graduate program listings, which I believe are compiled in 2005-2006 list 636 professors in the top 50 institutions (I used NRC’95 rankings) in associate or assistant rank. Typically their PhD years span about 12-15 year period from about 1990 till ~2003-2004. 162 of them have foreign PhDs (more on that later) and 472 held PhDs from US. More than half of those hires have PhDs from just 8 institutions: Harvard, Princeton, MIT, Berkeley, Chicago, Stanford, Caltech and Cornell. The effect is larger than I expected, but perhaps not completely unexpected.
Below are the institutions that have 3 or more PhD graduates among 636 assistant/associate rank professors in the top 50 physics programs:

Harvard University Princeton University MIT Univ. of California-Berkeley University of Chicago Stanford University CALTECH Cornell University University of Michigan Columbia University University of Minnesota Univ of California-San Diego Univ of CA-Santa Barbara Univ of Il Urbana-Champaign University of Washington Yale University SUNY-Stony Brook University of Texas at Austin Univ of Wisconsin-Madison Johns Hopkins University University of Pennsylvania University of Rochester Univ of California-Los Angeles Univ of Maryland College Park Northwestern University Rice University University of Colorado Boston University Indiana University Rutgers -New Brunswick Brandeis University Duke University Purdue University

42 39 34 32 29 28 26 22 14 13 11 9 9 9 9 9 8 8 8 7 7 7 6 6 5 5 5 4 4 4 3 3 3

Foreign degrees are more scattered all over the world, but here’s some strong contributors:

MoscowCambridgeOxford Munich Toronto Vienna Warsaw

15128 8 8 3 3

Top 10 universities contribute 59% of US PhD hires, those ranked 11-20 provide another 18%, the next ten ranked 21-30 provide 10%, and ALL of the remaining US universities contribute remaining 12% or so.

More charts like:

Percentage of PhDs that goes on to become faculty at top 50 universities.

Comparison ranking in terms of total PhD hires and ranking of USNews and NRC.

and the complete article is available at Incoherently Scattered Ponderings

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The Times Higher World University Rankings 2007

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Rank 2007	Rank 2006	Institute	Country
1 2= 2= 2= 5 6 7= 7= 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20= 20= 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33= 33= 33= 36 37 38= 38= 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51= 51= 53= 53= 55= 55= 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65= 65= 67 68 69 70 71= 71= 73 74= 74= 76 77= 77= 79 80= 80= 82 83 84 85= 85= 85= 88 89 90= 90= 92 93= 93= 95 96 97= 97= 99 100 101 102= 102= 102= 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112= 112= 114= 114= 114= 117= 117= 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126= 126= 128 129 130= 130= 132= 132= 134 135 136 137= 137= 139 140= 140= 142= 142= 144 145 146 147 148 149= 149= 151= 151= 151= 154 155= 155= 157 158 159= 159= 161= 161= 163= 163= 165 166= 166= 168= 168= 170 171= 171= 173= 173= 175= 175= 177= 177= 177= 180= 180= 182 183 184 185= 185= 187 188= 188= 190 191 192= 192= 194 195= 195= 197= 197= 199 200= 200=	12 3 4=  9 10 7 11 25 4= 12 21 13 26 23 16 19= 33= 6 35= 15 8 33= 46= 29= 18 22 37 42 40 35= 54= 50= 45 19= 14 64= 50= 29= 28 31 24 38 41 27 =70 66 69 43 46= 63 32 58= 78 84 79= 73 44 17 58= 96 105= 86 111= 90= 98 82= 102= 61= 85 61= 111= 77 56 124= 109= 88 127 111= 121 141= 53 81 90= 60 116= 87 176 95 99= 118 102= 54= 181= 48= 170= 133= 145 141= 116= 139 102= 108 168= 39 122 211= 155 132 130= 172= 128= 204= 126 75 79= 141= 64= 101 219= 105= 150= 76 141= 180 105= 215= 119 133= 194 67 198= 93= 224= 226= 128= 195 232= 282= 198= 109= 187= 170= 219= 153 149 228= 97 154 99= 133= 123 147= 165= 165= 152 72 140 163 130= 120 48= 92 179 201= 266= 138 156= 82= 291 238 222= 207= 232= 124= 284= 448= 219= 215= 190= 158= 172= 197 161= 239= 115 252= 333= 177 258= 255= 172= 74 190= 137 192= 147= 181= 196 257 146	Harvard University of Cambridge University of Oxford Yale University Imperial College London Princeton University CALTECH University of Chicago University College London MIT Columbia University McGill University Duke University University of Penn Johns Hopkins Univ Australian National Univ University of Tokyo University of Hong Kong Stanford University Carnegie Mellon University Cornell University University of California, Berkeley University of Edinburgh King’s College London Kyoto University Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris University of Melbourne Ecole Polytechnique Northwestern University University of Manchester University of Sydney Brown University University of British Columbia University of Queensland National University of Singapore Peking University University of Bristol Chinese University of Hong Kong University of Michigan Tsinghua University University of California, LA ETH Zurich Monash University University of New South Wales University of Toronto Osaka University Boston University University of Amsterdam New York University University of Auckland Seoul National University University of Texas at Austin Hong Kong University of Sc & Tech Trinity College Dublin University of Washington University of Wisconsin-Madison University of Warwick University of California, San Diego London School of Economics Heidelberg University Katholieke Universiteit Leuven University of Adelaide Delft University of Technology University of Western Australia University of Birmingham Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität  M Technische Universität München University of Sheffield Nanyang Technological University University of Nottingham Dartmouth College Uppsala University University of Illinois Emory University University of York University of St Andrews University of Pittsburgh Purdue University University of Maryland University of Leeds University of Southampton Vanderbilt University University of Glasgow Leiden University Case Western Reserve Univ Fudan University University of Vienna Queen’s University Utrecht University Pen State University Tokyo Institute of Tech Rice University University of Copenhagen University of Montreal University of Rochester University of California, Davis University of Alberta Georgia Institute of Technology Cardiff University University of Helsinki University of Liverpool Georgetown University National Taiwan University Tohoku University University of Geneva Lund University University of Colorado McMaster University Durham University University of Virginia Maastricht University Nagoya University University of Waterloo University of Aarhus University of Basel University of Otago University of California, SB Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale De L University of Southern California Ohio State University University of Sussex Texas A&M University Université Catholique de Louvain University of Ghent Nanjing University Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin Univ of Western Ontario Hebrew Univ of Jerusalem Newcastle University Technical Univ of Denmark Eindhoven University of Tech Korea Adv Inst of Sc & Tech Université Pierre et Marie Curie University of Arizona University of Florida Kyushu University University of Aberdeen Indiana University Bloomington Simon Fraser University University of California, Irvine University of Zurich University of Minnesota Universität Tübingen Universität Freiburg University of Bath Freie Universität Berlin University of Lancaster Wageningen University City University of Hong Kong Queen Mary, Univ of London Hokkaido University University of North Carolina Tel Aviv University Université Libre de Bruxelles Univ of Sc &Tech of China University of Notre Dame Ecole Normale Supérieure Cranfield University Michigan State University Tufts University Keio University Washington University in St Louis Erasmus University Rotterdam Shanghai Jiao Tong University Universität Stuttgart University of Calgary Vienna University of Tech Universität Göttingen Macquarie University Helsinki University of Tech University of Dundee Universität Karlsruhe University of Bologna University of Groningen University of MA ,Amherst University of São Paulo University of Campinas University College Dublin Rutgers,  New Jersey University of Reading Waseda University Rheinisch-Westfälische Tech Università Degli Studi Di Roma Université Louis Pasteur University of Leicester University of Twente University of Antwerp University of Canterbury University of Oslo University of Surrey Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute KTH, Royal Institute of Technology Univ Nat Autónoma de México University of Barcelona Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen Queensland Univ of Technology Chalmers University of Technology Kobe University University of Wollongong University of Cape Town Rmit University	US UK UK US UK US US US UK US US Canada US US US Australia Japan Hong Kong US US US US UK UK Japan France Australia France US UK Austraila US Canada Austraila Singapore China UK Hong Kong US China US Switzerland Australia Australia Canada Japan US Netherlands US New Zealand South Korea US Hong Kong Ireland US US UK US UK Germany Belgium Australia Netherlands Australia UK Germany Germany UK Singapore UK US Sweden US US UK UK US US US UK UK US UK Netherlands US China Austria Canada Netherlands US Japan US Denmark Canada US US Canada US UK Finland UK US Taiwan Japan Switzerland Sweden US Canada UK US Netherlands Japan Canada 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THES-QS World University Rankings 2007

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University Performance – US still dominates

Says BBC

Four of the top 10 are British and the rest American. Harvard is top and Yale, Oxford and Cambridge joint second.

University College London breaks into the top 10 for the first time and Imperial College London rises to fifth.

The annual survey by the Times Higher Education Supplement and careers and education group QS ranks according to factors including academics’ opinions.

University College London rose from 25th position last year to ninth.

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology was joint fourth last year but falls to 10th place, while Stanford falls from sixth position to 19th.

Another US university which tumbles in the rankings is the University of California, Berkeley. It was rated eighth last year but drops to 22nd place this year.

Asia

The rankings are based on a number of factors including the opinions of academics and of companies employing graduates, international student and staff numbers, and research.

The managing director of QS, Nunzio Quacquarelli, said the rankings recognised the quality of education that UK universities offer.

He said: “In an environment of increasing student mobility, the UK is putting itself forward as a top choice for students worldwide.

They are taking a closer look at the quality of faculty, international diversity and, of course, the education they will receive there.”

Asian universities improved their standing but European institutions outside of the UK fell back, the survey said.

Last year there were 41 European universities in the top 100, but in this year’s table there are 35.

The president of Universities UK, Professor Rick Trainor, said: “As this table shows, the world standing of UK higher education is at the very top.

“This is due to the high quality of our research and teaching.

“Our competitors are increasingly marketing themselves more aggressively so it is vital that the UK remains among the foremost destinations for international students and staff.”

The Top 10 in full is:

1 Harvard University (US)
2 University of Cambridge (UK)
2 University of Oxford (UK)
2 Yale University (US)
5 Imperial College London (UK)
6 Princeton University (US)
7 California Institute of Technology (US)
7 University of Chicago (US)
9 University College London (UK)
10 Massachusetts Institute of Technology (US)

Story from BBC NEWS

Rankings of Different Programs

(To properly view the table click the header)

* NRC, * US News, * Gourman

Name of University	Physics	Chemistry	Economics General	Psychology General	English Language & Literature
MIT	4, *, 5	5, *, 4	3, *, 2	*, *, *	*, *, *
Stanford	9, *, 7	4, *, 6	4, *, 5	*, *, 1	6, *, 7
Univ of CA-Berkeley	4, *, 6	1, *, 2	7, *, 7	*, *, 7	2, *, 2
UIUC	8, *, 9	8, *, 7	28, *, 28	*, *, 8	28, *, 27
GTECH	62, *, *	64, *, *	*, *, *	*, *, *	*, *, *
Univ of MI- Ann Arbor	19, *, 14	35, *, 36	13, *, 13	*, *, 4	16, *, 16
CALTECH	5, *, 2	2, *, 3	19, *, *	*, *, *	*, *, *
USC	50, *, *	40, *, *	40, *, 40	*, *, 37	25, *, *
Purdue-West Lafayette	31, *, 30	24, *, 22	51, *, *	*, *, 28	57, *,
Austin	11, *, 16	13, *, 15	31, *, 31	*, *, 19	21, *, 21
Carnegie Mellon Univ	28, *, 29	74, *, *	*, *, *	*, *, 12	52, *, *
Cornell Univ	6, *, 3	6, *, 10	18, *, 17	*, *, 21	7, *, 6
Univ of CA-San Diego	16, *, 18	19, *, 19	16, *, 19	*, *, 11	37, *, 36
TAMU	48, *, *	15, *, 18	34, *, 33	*, *, *	56, *, *
Univ of WI- Madison	21, *, 22	10, *, 11	15, *, 16	*, *, 16	22, *, 22
Univ of MD- College Park	18, *, 19	53, *, *	20, *, 20	*, *, *	41, *, *
Harvard	1, *, 1	4, *, 1	2, *, 3	*, *, 6	2, *, 3
Princeton	2, *, 4	20, *, 13	5, *, 4	*, *, 15	13, *, 12
Northwestern	37, *, 35	14, *, 12	9, *, 9	*, *, 25	29, *, 28
UCLA	15, *, 15	10, *, 8	11, *, 11	*, *, 9	12, *, 13
Penn State	55, *, *	19, *, 21	45, *, *	*, *, 24	42, *, *
JHU	29, *, 27	27, *, *	32, *, 32	*, *, 26	11, *, 11
Univ of MN- Twin Cities	23, *, 24	21, *, 23	10, *, *	*, *, 5	36, *, 35
Ohio State	24, *, 28	22, *, 17	34, *, 35	*, *, 27	33, *, 33
Univ of CA- Santa Barbara	10, *, 12	33, *, 35	49, *, *	*, *, *	35, *, 34
Columbia Univ (Fu Foundation)	12, *, 10	7, *, 5	12, *, 12	*, *, 14	9, *, 8
Univ of Fl	*, *, 38	30, *, 29	41, *, 39	*, *, 40	39, *, *
VTech	71, *, *	67, *, *	*, *, *	*, *, *	*, *, *
Univ of Pennsylvania	17, *, 13	25, *, 25	8, *, 8	*, *, 3	9, *, 9
Univ of Washington	14, *, 17	29, *, 30	26, *, 27	*, *, 20	23, *, 23
Rice	43, *, 41	29, *, 28	*, *, *	*, *, *	53, *, *
NCSU	51, *, *	81, *, *	42, *, *	*, *, *	*, *, *
Duke	43, *, 39	44, *, *	22, *, 22	*, *, 29	6, *, 4
Rensselaer Polytehnic	69, *, *	82, *, *	103, *, *	*, *, *	*, *, *
Washington Univ in St. Louis	52, *, *	55, *, *	29, *, 29	*, *, *	50, *, *
Univ of CA- Davis	67, *, *	48, *, *	38, *, 37	*, *, *	48, *, *
Univ of CO- Boulder	38, *, 33	42, *, *	55, *, *	*, *, 22	52, *, *
Case Western Reserve	65, *, *	71, *, *	*, *, *	*, *, *	91, *, *
Iowa State	50, *, *	26, *, 16	37, *, *	*, *, *	*, *, *
Univ of Virginia	46, *, *	43, *, *	24, *, 25	*, *, 18	4, *, 5
Lehigh	98, *, *	84, *, *	89, *, *	*, *, *	114, *, *
Yale	13, *, 11	12, *, 14	6, *, 6	*, *, 2	1, *, 1
Rutgers	20, *, 23	60, *, *	52, *, *	*, *, 32	17, *, 17
Dartmouth	84, *, *	54, *, *	*, *, *	*, *, *	*, *, *
Univ of Delaware	74, *, *	73, *, *	*, *, *	*, *, *	*, *, *
Univ of Rochester	25, *, 25	32, *, 34	14, *, 15	*, *, 30	46, *, *
Brown	27, *, 26	56, *, *	23, *, 23	*, *, 23	14, *, 15
Univ of CA- Irvine	34, *, 32	36, *, 37	*, *, *	*, *, 38	15, *, 14
Univ of MA- Amherst	64, *, *	58, *, *	51, *, *	*, *, 39	41, *, *
Boston	39, *, 37	89, *, *	21, *, 21	*, *, *	38, *, 37
Univ of AZ	46, *, *	*, *, *	37, *, 36	*, *, *	58, *, *
Univ of Iowa	73, *, *	76, *, *	30, *, 30	*, *, 33	45, *, *
Univ of Notre Dame	56, *, *	62, *, 38	82, *, *	*, *, *	63, *, 29
Univ of Pittsburgh	40, *, 40	34, *, 32	34, *, 34	*, *, *	27, *, 25
Vanderbilt	58, *, *	86, *, *	48, *, *	*, *, 25	31, *, 30
ASU	70, *, *	69, *, *	67, *, *	*, *, *	79, *, *
CO State	105, *, *	37, *, *	100, *, *	*, *, *	*, *, *
MI State	32, *, 31	39, *, 39	27, *, 26	*, *, *	60, *, *
Drexel	81, *, *	118, *, *	*, *, *	*, *, *	*, *, *
Ill Institute of Tech.	88, *, *	*, *, *	*, *, *	*, *, *	*, *, *
Univ at Buffalo	108, *, *	57, *, *	58, *, *	*, *, *	27, *, 26
Univ of Illinois, Chicago	88, *, *	63, *, *	71, *, *	*, *, *	64, *, *
Northeastern	66, *, *	105, *, *	107, *, *	*, *, *	*, *, *
SUNY -Stony Brook	23, *, 21	46, *, *	39, *, 38	*, *, 31	49, *, *
Syracuse	58, *, *	60, *, *	56, *, *	*, *, *	76, *, *
Univ of Utah	58, *, *	32, *, 31	90, *, *	*, *, *	*, *, *
CO School of Mines	107, *, *	159, *, *	104, *, *	*, *, *	*, *, *
Univ of Cincinnati	102, *, *	72, *, *	97, *, *	*, *, *	109, *, *
University of NM	*, *, *	*, *, *	*, *, *	*, *, *	*, *, *
Oklahoma State	121, *, *	100, *, *	86, *, *	*, *, *	122, *, *
Univ of CT	102, *, *	85, *, *	84, *, *	*, *, *	82, *, *
Univ of NC- Chapel Hill	54, *, *	17, *, 16	25, *, 24	*, *, 24	24, *, 24
MI Tech	139, *, *	*, *, *	*, *, *	*, *, *	*, *, *
Univ of Missouri, Rolla	124, *, *	111, *, *	*, *, *	*, *, *	*, *, *
Clemson	*, *, *	94, *, *	75, *, *	*, *, *	*, *, *
Mississippi State	*, *, *	159, *, *	*, *, *	*, *, *	*, *, *
Polytechnic Univ	126, *, *	109, *, *	*, *, *	*, *, *	*, *, *
Univ of Central Fl	*, *, *	*, *, *	36, *, *	*, *, *	*, *, *
Auburn	128, *, *	123, *, *	74, *, *	*, *, *	93, *, *
NJIT	*, *, *	*, *, *	*, *, *	*, *, *	*, *, *
Univ of CA- Riverside	70, *, *	70, *, *	71, *, *	*, *, *	35, *, *
Univ of Houston	62, *, *	50, *, *	57, *, *	*, *, *	88, *, *
Oregon State	76, *, *	61, *, 40	*, *, *	*, *, *	*, *, *
Tufts	77, *, *	137, *, *	*, *, *	*, *, *	70, *, *

A New Approach to Rankings of Engineering and Computer Science Programs

University	CS	Aerospace Eng	Chemical Eng	Civil Eng	Electrical Eng	Mechanical Eng	Industrial Eng
MIT	2, 1, 1	2, 1, 2	2, 1, 2	1, 3, 2	2, 1, 2	2, 1, 1	*, *, *
Stanford	1, 1, 2	3, 2, 3	7, 6, 5	3, 8, 5	1, 3, 1	8, 4, 2	7, 9, 7
Univ of CA Berkeley	3, 1, 4	*, *, *	3, 3, 4	2, 1, 1	4, 2, 4	3, 3, 3	2, 4, 2
Urbana Champaign	8, 5, 8	14, 8, 14	5, 9, 8	5, 2, 3	3, 3, 3	9, 5, 9	13, *, 13
GATECH	32, 12, 33	9, 3, 9	31, *, 31	*, 5, 17	13, 7, 13	18, 6, 17	1, 1, 1
Ann Arbor	21, 14, 20	5, 3, 5	18, *, 16	10, 6, 10	6, 5, 7	5, 2, 5	4, 2, 4
CALTECH	12, 10, 12	1, 3, 1	6, 4, 3	7, *, 4	5, 6, 5	4, 8, 4	*, *, *
USC	20, 27, 21	*, *, *	57, *, *	*, *, *	11, 20, 10	57, *, *	22, *, 21
Purdue West Lafayette	26, 20, 26	7, 6, 7	16, *, 15	11, 7, 11	8, 9, 8	11, 7, 10	3, 3, 3
Austin	7, 7, 7	8, 7, 8	10, 7, 10	4, 4, 6	14, 11, 14	15, 11, 15	*, *, *
Carnegie Mellon	4, 1, 3	*, *, *	12, *, 12	12, *, 12	12, 10, 12	19, 13, 19	*, *, *
Cornell	5, 6, 5	6, 10, 6	13, *, 13	6, 9, 7	7, 8, 6	7, 10, 7	*, *, *
Univ of CA, San Diego	23, 20, 25	11, *, 10	*, *, *	*, *, *	20, 14, 20	10, 17, 11	*, *, *
TAMU	63, 49, *	18, *, 17	37, *, 36	*, *, 19	32, 17, 32	28, 18, 28	*, 6, 5
Univ of WI Madison	10, 10, 11	*, *, *	4, 5, 7	*, *, 21	16, 14, 16	21, 15, 21	10, 10, 9
Univ of MD College Park	16, 12, 16	20, *, 20	52, *, *	*, *, 36	17, 20, 17	34, *, 32	*, *, *
Harvard	11, *, 10	*, *, *	*, *, *	*, *, *	*, *, *	*, *, *	*, *, *
Princeton	6, 9, 6	4, 8, 4	9, 10, 9	8, *, 9	9, 12, 9	6, 12, 6	*, *, *
Northwestern	38, 35, 38	*, *, *	15, *, 14	9, 10, 8	39, *, *	12, 16, 13	6, 7, 6
UCLA	15, 14, 14	11, *, 11	39, *, *	*, *, 20	11, 13, 11	14, 22, 16	*, *, *
Penn State Univ Park	55, 35, *	18, *, 18	23, *, 24	*, *, 29	29, 20, 28	17, 14, 18	9, 4, 8
Johns Hopkins	37, 28, 36	*, *, *	36, *, 35	*, *, 15	34, *, 34	48, *, *	*, *, *
Unive of MN Twin Cities	47, 35, 22	12, *, 12	*, 2, 1	13, *, 13	18, *, 18	8, 9, 8	*, *, 10*
Ohio State	39, 35, 39	24, *, 25	41, *, *	*, *, 38	22, *, 22	25, 18, 25	12, *, 12
Univ of CA Santa Barbara	49, 49, *	*, *, *	14, *, 18	*, *, *	19, *, 19	40, *, *	*, *, *
Columbia (Fu Foundation)	23, 20, 22	*, *, *	56, *, *	*, *, 17	15, *, 15	30, 29, 29	*, *, *
Univ of Fl	46, 47, *	27, *, 27	34, *, 33	*, *, 35	31, *, 31	52, *, *	19, *, 19
VTECH	66, 35, *	15, *, 15	42, *, *	*, *, 39	27, *, 27	30, 21, 30	8, 8, 10
Univ of Pennsylvania	25, 17, 24	*, *, *	11, *, 11	*, *, *	41, *, *	22, *, 22	*, *, *
Univ of WA Seattle	9, 7, 9	19, *, 19	20, *, 19	14, *, 14	25, 19, 25	8, *, 33	*, *, *
Rice Univ	19, 17, 19	*, *, *	22, *, 22	*, *, 22	26, 20, 26	28, *, 27	*, *, *
NC State Univ	60, 49, *	16, *, 16	25, *, 26	*, *, 40	21, 17, 21	24, 22, 24	11, *, 11
Duke Univ	28, 20, 28	*, *, *	84, *, *	*, *, 16	55, *, *	41, *, *	*, *, *
Rensselaer Polytehnic	49, 49, *	22, *, 22	36, *, 34	*, *, 33	23, 17, 23	16, 18, 14	14, *, 14
Washington Univ in St. Louis	52, 35, *	*, *, *	38, *, *	*, *, *	37, *, *	55, *, *	*, *, *
Univ of CA Davis	58, 35, *	*, *, *	28, *, 27	*, *, 16	33, *, 33	26, *, 26	*, *, *
Univ of CO Boulder	41, 35, 40	13, *, 13	26, *, 25	*, *, 23	37, *, *	51, *, *	*, *, *
Case Western Reserve	68, 67, *	*, *, *	46, *, *	*, *, *	42, *, *	21, *, 20	*, *, *
Iowa State	78, 60, *	22, *, 21	33, *, 32	*, *, *	52, *, *	46, *, *	21, *, 22
Univ of Virginia	35, 27, 35	*, *, *	31, *, 37	*, *, 37	55, *, *	40, *, *	*, *, *
Lehigh	96, *, *	*, *, *	27, *, 29	*, *, 18	67, *, *	23, *, 23	15, *, 15
Yale	15, 25, 15	*, *, *	33, *, 30	*, *, *	31, *, 30	*, *, *	*, *, *
Rutgers, New Brunswick	27, 28, 27	*, *, *	43, *, *	*, *, *	50, *, *	31, *, 31	*, *, *
Dartmouth	56, 47, *	*, *, *	*, *, *	*, *, *	*, *, *	*, *, *	*, *, *
Univ of Delaware	*, 60, *	*, *, *	8, 8, 6	*, *, *	79, *, *	48, *, *	*, *, *
Univ of Rochester	30, 35, 29	*, *, *	40, *, *	*, *, *	47, *, *	58, *, *	*, *, *
Brown	13, 14, 13	*, *, *	*, *, *	*, *, *	35, *, 35	13, 12, 12	*, *, *
Univ of CA Irvine	34, 28, 34	*, *, *	*, *, *	*, *, 32	47, *, *	34, *, 36	*, *, *
Univ of MA Amherst	18, 25, 17	*, *, *	22, *, 21	*, *, *	29, 29, 29	61, *, *	25, *, 27
Boston Univ	58, 60, *	*, *, *	*, *, *	*, *, *	83, *, *	*, *, *	*, *, *
Univ of Arizona	33, 35, 32	*, *, *	79, *, *	*, *, 31	40, *, *	34, *, 35	*, *, *
Univ of Iowa	62, 60, *	*, *, *	67, *, *	*, *, 28	53, *, *	54, *, *	24, *, 24
Univ of Notre Dame	*, *, *	25, *, 24	24, *, 17	*, *, 34	45, *, *	37, *, 34	*, *, *
Univ of Pitts	43, 49, *	*, *, *	44, *, *	*, *, *	63, *, *	69, *, *	23, *, 23
Vanderbilt	73, 60, *	*, *, *	76, *, *	*, *, *	71, *, *	73, *, *	*, *, *
Arizona State	61, 55, *	*, *, *	64, *, *	*, *, *	37, *, *	37, *, *	17, *, 17
Colorado State	*, *, *	*, *, *	*, *, *	*, *, 14	61, *, *	65, *, *	*, *, *
Michigan State	53, 49, *	*, *, *	45, *, *	*, *, *	44, *, *	43, *, *	*, *, *
Drexel	*, *, *	*, *, *	*, *, *	*, *, *	48, *, *	*, *, *	*, *, *
Ill Inst of Tech	91, *, *	*, *, *	48, *, *	*, *, *	84, *, *	44, *, *	*, *, *
Univ at Buffalo	58, 55, 30	29, *, 28	29, *, 28	*, *, 30	61, *, *	40, *, *	18, *, 18
Univ of Illinois	51, 55, *	*, *, *	61, *, *	*, *, *	65, *, *	45, *, *	*, *, *
Northeastern	*, 67, *	*, *, *	89, *, *	*, *, *	66, *, *	89, *, *	30, *, *
Stony Brook	31, 28, 31	*, *, *	*, *, *	*, *, *	58, *, *	54, *, *	*, *, *
Syracuse	44, 55, *	*, *, *	48, *, *	*, *, *	49, *, *	89, *, *	*, *, *
Univ of Utah	41, 28, 41	*, *, *	53, *, *	*, *, *	43, *, *	61, *, *	*, *, *
Co School of Mines	*, *, *	*, *, *	65, *, *	*, *, *	*, *, *	*, *, *	*, *, *
Univ of Cincinnati	*, *, *	23, *, 23	74, *, *	*, *, *	87, *, *	59, *, *	*, *, *
Univ of New Mexico	*, *, *	*, *, *	*, *, *	*, *, *	*, *, *	*, *, *	*, *, *
Oklahoma State	108, *, *	*, *, *	70, *, *	*, *, *	104, *, *	78, *, *	16, *, 16
Univ of Connecticut	92, *, *	*, *, *	51, *, *	*, *, *	79, *, *	72, *, *	*, *, *
Univ of NC	29, 17, 30	*, *, *	*, *, *	15, *, 15	*, *, *	8, *, *	*, *, *
MI Tech	*, *, *	*, *, *	*, *, *	*, *, *	*, *, *	67, *, *	*, *, *
Univ of Missouri, Rolla	106, *, *	*, *, *	58, *, *	*, *, *	81, *, *	50, *, *	*, *, *
Clemson	*, *, *	*, *, *	81, *, *	*, *, *	73, *, *	63, *, *	32, *, 30
Mississippi State	99, *, *	*, *, *	*, *, *	*, *, *	102, *, *	*, *, *	*, *, *
Polytechnic Univ	*, *, *	*, *, *	63, *, *	*, *, *	25, *, 24	106, *, *	*, *, *
Univ of Central Fl	83, *, *	*, *, *	*, *, *	*, *, *	77, *, *	*, *, *	*, *, *
Auburn	*, *, *	32, *, 30	72, *, *	*, *, *	59, *, *	75, *, *	20, *, 20
NJIT	*, *, *	*, *, *	80, *, *	*, *, *	103, *, *	99, *, *	*, *, *
Univ of CA Riverside	*, *, *	*, *, *	*, *, *	*, *, *	*, *, *	*, *, *	*, *, *
Univ of Houston	75, *, *	*, *, *	17, *, 20	*, *, *	90, *, *	37, *, *	36, *, *
Oregon State	71, 67, *	*, *, *	77, *, *	*, *, *	63, *, *	82, *, *	37, *, *
Tufts	*, *, *	*, *, *	*, *, *	*, *, *	*, *, *	*, *, *	*, *, *

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