Reed College eschews rankings of undergraduate colleges, so logical consistency demands that we turn our backs on rankings of graduate schools, right? Not necessarily.
The National Research Council has recently published statistical data on all of the major chemistry and chemical engineering graduate programs in the United States. The feelings of chemists, both good and bad, towards this latest study of graduate school are described in the cover story (“The Un-rankings”) of the October 25, 2010 issue of C&E News. (Update Dec 20, 2010: Science magazine weighed in on this study in its Oct 1, 2010 issue, “Academy Rankings Tell You a Lot, But Not Who’s No. 1 in Any Field”)
The C&E News article is published in an interesting format. If you click on the Article tab, you can read the full story. If you click on the Top Program Rankings tab, you can read the following nearly unintelligible chart listing the usual suspects:
