US News ranks grad programs
InUS News and World Report's 2001 rankings of
graduate programs, Princeton held positions in the top three
of several disciplines.
Among PhD programs, Princeton's history program ranked
number one (sharing this distinction with the University of
California, Berkeley), math number two (along with Harvard,
Berkeley and Stanford) and physics number three (along with
Harvard, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and
Berkeley). Among master's degree programs, both public
affairs (along with University of Indiana, Bloomington) and
architecture ranked number three.
Other Princeton programs ranked in the top 10 nationally
were economics (number four, with Berkeley and the
University of Chicago), political science (number six),
biological sciences (number seven, with the University of
California, San Francisco and Yale), English (number seven,
with Duke and the University of Virginia), computer science
(number eight), pyschology (number nine, with the University
of Pennsylvania and the Univerity of Minnesota, Twin Cities)
and sociology (number nine).
Methodology
According to US News, rankings of master's and
doctoral programs in the arts, sciences, social sciences and
humanities are based on the results of surveys sent to
academics in each discipline. The questionnaires ask
individuals to rate the quality of the program at each
institution as distinguished, strong, good, adequate or
marginal. Scores for each school are totaled and divided by
the number of respondents who rated that school.
Surveys in the sciences were most recently conducted in
the fall of 1998, in the humanities and social sciences in
1997, and in the arts in 1996. Response rates ranged from a
low of 33 percent for respondents in biology and psychology
to a high of 58 percent for respondents in architecture,
with most falling in the mid-40s.
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