United States National Research Council Rankings 

The United States National Research Council puts out a ranking of United States graduate programs about every 10 years, although the time elapsed between each new ranking has exceeded 10 years. The new rankings have been released to universities but not to the public.

While the NRC rankings are regarded by many as the premier ranking of research universities, it has been criticized as part of a self-validating academic circle and as favoring universities that conduct mainstream research as opposed to more heterodox approaches (Holcombe).1

Top 15 universities by average of all scores
ranking 1995 University 1995 average score
1 Stanford 7.76
2 Berkeley 7.46
3 Michigan 7.31
4 Cornell 6.56
5 Wisconsin 6.44
6 UCLA 6.32
7 Texas 6.12
8 Columbia 6.07
9 Washington 6.05
9 Illinois 6.05
9 Penn 6.05
12 Harvard 6.00
13 Minnesota 5.78
14 Princeton 5.68
15 UChicago 5.66
 
Top 30 universities by average of nonzero scores
ranking 1995 University 1995 average score
1 MIT 8.70
2 Berkeley 8.50
3 Harvard 8.20
4 Princeton 8.03
5 Caltech 8.00
6 Stanford 7.95
7 UChicago 7.73
8 Yale 7.60
9 Cornell 7.47
10 UCSD 7.34
11 Columbia 7.32
12 Michigan 7.24
13 UCLA 7.19
14 Penn 7.09
15 Wisconsin 6.95
16 UTexas 6.78
17 UWashington 6.70
17 Illinois 6.70
19 Northwestern 6.63
20 Duke 6.61
20 Johns Hopkins 6.61
22 Carnegie Mellon
23 Minnesota
24 North Carolina
25 Brown
26 UC Irvine
27 NYU
28 Virginia
29 Purdue
30 Arizona

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