Department-level rankings from measured data, not reputation surveys: faculty quality (mean h-index across the full roster, not-yet-indexed professors counted conservatively) and power (quality × department size) from every indexed professor’s publication record, blended with graduate earnings (College Scorecard median pay for this major at this college) and curriculum depth (unique courses you can take). Scores are percentiles within each field, so physics norms — or CS salaries — are never compared with philosophy’s. Coverage today: 179/192 colleges, 13 fields, 27 majors (as of 2026-07-02 — enrichment ongoing; rankings refine as every professor lands).
| # | College | Score | Mean h | Faculty | Stars | Grad pay | Top professors |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 1–6 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 36.2 | 53 (40 enriched) | 14 | $154k | Anantha Chandrakasan (h 116) · Hari Balakrishnan (h 107) · Regina Barzilay (h 92) | |
| 2 1–8 | Stanford University | 39.9 | 35 (31 enriched) | 10 | $139k | Leonidas Guibas (h 120) · Ron Dror (h 94) · William Dally (h 93) | |
| 3 2–5 | University of California, Berkeley | 41.2 | 41 (33 enriched) | 13 | $119k | Trevor Darrell (h 139) · Pieter Abbeel (h 124) · David E. Culler (h 120) | |
| 4 1–12 | Carnegie Mellon University | 33.1 | 40 (37 enriched) | 5 | $171k | Christos Faloutsos (h 132) · Phillip Gibbons (h 83) · Gregory Ganger (h 71) | |
| 5 2–9 | Harvard University | 33.7 | 83 (70 enriched) | 16 | $152k | L Mahadevan (h 104) · Robert J. Wood (h 97) · Conor Walsh (h 77) | |
| 6 3–12 | Princeton University | 29.5 | 60 (51 enriched) | 5 | $147k | Tom Griffiths (h 100) · Sanjeev Arora (h 80) · Thomas Funkhouser (h 78) | |
| 7 3–12 | University of Pennsylvania | 31.8 | 60 (48 enriched) | 9 | $135k | Christos Davatzikos (h 122) · Hamed Hassani (h 98) · Rajeev Alur (h 82) | |
| 8 5–12 | University of Southern California | 35.8 | 88 (79 enriched) | 19 | $137k | Bhaskar Krishnamachari (h 115) · Ramesh Govindan (h 89) · C.-C. Jay Kuo (h 89) | |
| 9 7–12 | Columbia University | 39.2 | 71 (60 enriched) | 17 | $119k | Brian A Smith (h 121) · Shree K Nayar (h 95) · Shih-Fu Chang (h 94) | |
| 10 7–14 | University of California, San Diego | 37.3 | 40 (39 enriched) | 6 | $112k | Mihir Bellare (h 100) · Steven Swanson (h 82) · Vineet Bafna (h 81) | |
| 11 5–17 | University of Michigan | 32.0 | 54 (47 enriched) | 6 | $114k | Mark W Newman (h 103) · Ke Wu (h 99) · Kang G. Shin (h 94) | |
| 12 4–23 | Duke University | 30.1 | 42 (37 enriched) | 6 | $133k | Siqi Liu (h 184) · Jian Pei (h 95) · Michael Reiter (h 78) | |
| 13 10–17 | Cornell University | 33.4 | 60 (56 enriched) | 8 | $128k | Jon Kleinberg (h 115) · Joseph Halpern (h 78) · Bharath Hariharan (h 76) | |
| 14 10–25 | Rice University | 26.1 | 57 (45 enriched) | 7 | $131k | Ken Chen (h 103) · Moshe Y. Vardi (h 92) · Stephen Wong (h 73) | |
| 15 11–22 | University of Chicago | 25.8 | 69 (48 enriched) | 7 | $118k | Ian Foster (h 125) · Michael Franklin (h 86) · Eliu Huerta (h 85) | |
| 16 11–26 | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign | 29.9 | 31 (27 enriched) | 3 | $119k | Tarek Abdelzaher (h 87) · Roy H. Campbell (h 66) · Sarita V. Adve (h 62) | |
| 17 12–24 | University of Washington | 32.8 | 40 (36 enriched) | 7 | $101k | Matthew Golub (h 133) · Dieter Fox (h 94) · Michael Ernst (h 72) | |
| 18 13–25 | Georgia Institute of Technology | 28.2 | 52 (49 enriched) | 3 | $105k | Wenke Lee (h 80) · Ling Liu (h 70) · Mostafa Ammar (h 60) | |
| 19 13–26 | Johns Hopkins University | 26.1 | 62 (42 enriched) | 7 | $110k | Steven Salzberg (h 161) · Adam Phillippy (h 94) · Gregory D. Hager (h 78) | |
| 20 11–28 | California Institute of Technology | 27.6 | 20 (13 enriched) | 2 | $173k | Steven Low (h 89) · Erik Winfree (h 60) · Animashree Anandkumar (h 57) | |
| 21 18–27 | New York University | 35.0 | 40 (38 enriched) | 4 | $88k | Yann LeCun (h 119) · Rob Fergus (h 76) · Dennis Shasha (h 68) | |
| 22 15–31 | Stony Brook University (SUNY) | 20.6 | 63 (51 enriched) | 1 | $140k | Dimitris Samaras (h 60) · Steven Skiena (h 56) · Hong Qin (h 48) | |
| 23 18–33 | Brown University | 24.7 | 50 (42 enriched) | 3 | $151k | John F Hughes (h 93) · Roberto Tamassia (h 62) · Maurice P Herlihy (h 61) | |
| 24 20–33 | University of Wisconsin-Madison | 29.5 | 53 (44 enriched) | 7 | $81k | McDaniel, Patrick (h 73) · Livny, Miron (h 73) · Jha, Somesh (h 70) | |
| 25 16–36 | Dartmouth College | 22.9 | 37 (35 enriched) | 3 | $133k | Andrew Thomas Campbell (h 81) · Yu-Wing Tai (h 66) · David Kotz (h 65) | |
| 26 18–33 | Yale University | 26.7 | 34 (28 enriched) | 2 | $133k | Y. Richard Yang (h 79) · Vladimir Rokhlin (h 58) · Fan Zhang (h 57) | |
| 27 20–35 | University of Notre Dame | 24.4 | 48 (45 enriched) | 3 | $97k | Kevin Bowyer (h 75) · Patrick Flynn (h 59) · Xiangliang Zhang (h 58) | |
| 28 25–33 | University of California, Irvine | 31.9 | 84 (75 enriched) | 13 | $68k | Pierre F. Baldi (h 118) · Gene Y. Tsudik (h 81) · Xiaohui Xie (h 78) | |
| 29 20–40 | University of Texas at Austin | 23.6 | 40 (26 enriched) | 4 | $112k | Kristen Grauman (h 84) · Inderjit Dhillon (h 81) · Don Batory (h 62) | |
| 30 21–39 | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute | 24.8 | 37 (33 enriched) | 4 | $95k | Ge Wang (h 86) · James Hendler (h 79) · Mohammed Zaki (h 67) | |
| 31 24–37 | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | 25.1 | 40 (31 enriched) | 3 | $90k | Anderson, James (h 66) · Fuchs, Henry (h 63) · Bansal, Mohit (h 61) | |
| 32 22–37 | Washington University in St. Louis | 23.8 | 51 (40 enriched) | 5 | $110k | Ning Zhang (h 87) · Chenyang Lu (h 68) · Sanjoy Baruah (h 60) | |
| 33 26–39 | University of Maryland, College Park | 27.1 | 40 (31 enriched) | 2 | $100k | Heng Huang (h 74) · Hal Daumé III (h 61) · Calin Belta (h 56) | |
| 34 25–38 | University of California, Santa Cruz | 29.1 | 40 (35 enriched) | 5 | $75k | James Edward Davis (h 91) · Martin Abadi (h 77) · Jose Joaquin Garcia-Luna-Aceves (h 68) | |
| 35 26–39 | Boston University | 27.3 | 40 (34 enriched) | 4 | $90k | Ran Canetti (h 81) · Kate Saenko (h 75) · Stan Sclaroff (h 70) | |
| 36 30–46 | Northwestern University | 20.7 | 49 (22 enriched) | 3 | $100k | Aggelos Katsaggelos (h 80) · Alok Choudhary (h 65) · Yan Chen (h 60) | |
| 37 30–45 | Tufts University | 20.7 | 40 (27 enriched) | 0 | $106k | Susan Landau (h 54) · Robert Jacob (h 54) · Matthias Scheutz (h 52) | |
| 38 21–51 | University of California, Merced | 25.5 | 20 (18 enriched) | 1 | — | Ming-Hsuan Yang (h 144) · Dong Li (h 41) · Shawn Newsam (h 35) | |
| 39 31–51 | University of Minnesota, Twin Cities | 23.6 | 40 (33 enriched) | 3 | $83k | George Karypis (h 93) · Joseph Konstan (h 75) · Vipin Kumar (h 72) | |
| 40 32–59 | University of Missouri | 20.3 | 40 (29 enriched) | 1 | — | Jianlin Cheng (h 68) · Dominic K.C. Ho (h 56) · Kannappan Palaniappan (h 46) | |
| 41 38–55 | Lehigh University | 21.1 | 30 (25 enriched) | 0 | $86k | Lichao Sun (h 45) · Lifang He (h 45) · Brian D. Davison (h 43) | |
| 42 37–53 | George Mason University | 20.4 | 40 (32 enriched) | 0 | $82k | Andrian Marcus (h 53) · Giuseppe Ateniese (h 48) · Jana Košecká (h 42) | |
| 43 37–52 | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | 18.3 | 44 (29 enriched) | 0 | $94k | Neil Heffernan (h 44) · Xiangnan Kong (h 39) · Yanhua Li (h 37) | |
| 44 38–57 | University of Illinois, Chicago | 21.1 | 40 (25 enriched) | 1 | $78k | Chen, Hao (h 141) · Bernstein, Daniel J. (h 56) · Cheng, Lu (h 51) | |
| 45 38–60 | Arizona State University | 27.6 | 13 (11 enriched) | 2 | $76k | Douglas Montgomery (h 78) · Rong Pan (h 60) · George Runger (h 55) | |
| 46 39–54 | Case Western Reserve University | 22.0 | 15 (14 enriched) | 0 | $96k | Mehmet Koyuturk (h 37) · Jing Li (h 36) · Vipin Chaudhary (h 34) | |
| 47 40–53 | George Washington University | 20.8 | 26 (25 enriched) | 0 | $88k | Robert Pless (h 40) · David Broniatowski (h 35) · Timothy Wood (h 34) | |
| 48 37–57 | Pomona College | 18.0 | 13 (11 enriched) | 0 | $143k | Kim B. Bruce (h 36) · Yuqing Melanie Wu (h 30) · David R. Kauchak (h 19) | |
| 49 40–59 | New Jersey Institute of Technology | 24.2 | 40 (35 enriched) | 3 | $67k | Haotian Zhang (h 90) · Jing Li (h 70) · Zhi Wei (h 61) | |
| 50 42–64 | Colorado School of Mines | 19.3 | 40 (31 enriched) | 1 | $86k | Hua Wang (h 83) · Pejman Tahmsebi (h 51) · C. Estelle Smith (h 40) | |
| 51 42–58 | University of Maryland, Baltimore County | 17.4 | 67 (41 enriched) | 1 | $84k | Tulay Adali (h 64) · Curtis Menyuk (h 57) · Masoud Soroush (h 53) | |
| 52 42–62 | Williams College | 18.1 | 14 (11 enriched) | 0 | $111k | Kelly Shaw (h 33) · Stephen N. Freund (h 28) · Jeannie Albrecht (h 19) | |
| 53 45–70 | Barnard College | 19.0 | 9 (6 enriched) | 0 | $107k | Rebecca Wright (h 35) · Smaranda Muresan (h 28) · Lucy Simko (h 11) | |
| 54 46–62 | Drexel University | 16.1 | 40 (30 enriched) | 0 | $87k | Ali Shokoufandeh (h 38) · Yuanfang Cai (h 37) · Dario Salvucci (h 36) | |
| 55 45–67 | Iowa State University | 19.2 | 40 (36 enriched) | 1 | $71k | Yang Li (h 65) · Qi Li (h 54) · Myra Cohen (h 38) | |
| 56 48–68 | Brigham Young University | 17.8 | 39 (30 enriched) | 0 | $86k | Mike D. Jones (h 38) · Mike P. Jones (h 38) · David Wingate (h 38) | |
| 57 48–70 | Illinois Institute of Technology | 19.9 | 28 (20 enriched) | 0 | $74k | Peng-Jun Wan (h 50) · Yan Yan (h 41) · Xian-He Sun (h 36) | |
| 58 48–69 | Brandeis University | 19.2 | 24 (17 enriched) | 1 | $80k | James Pustejovsky (h 59) · Nianwen Bert Xue (h 39) · Pengyu Hong (h 32) | |
| 59 51–68 | North Carolina State University | 16.7 | 21 (18 enriched) | 0 | $86k | Tiffany Barnes (h 39) · Wu-show Chou (h 26) · Min Chi (h 25) | |
| 60 52–74 | University of Texas at Dallas | 19.6 | 24 (17 enriched) | 0 | $72k | Weili Lily Wu (h 53) · Yvo Desmedt (h 40) · W. Eric Wong (h 40) | |
| 61 50–71 | University of Connecticut | 19.2 | 40 (30 enriched) | 0 | $69k | Jinbo Bi (h 40) · Amir Herzberg (h 38) · Alexander Russell (h 38) | |
| 62 47–80 | Connecticut College | 18.2 | 11 (6 enriched) | 1 | $86k | S. James Lee (h 61) · Gary Parker (h 12) · Ozgur Izmirli (h 10) | |
| 63 52–70 | Stevens Institute of Technology | 15.3 | 40 (25 enriched) | 0 | $99k | Michael Greenberg (h 50) · Kai Li (h 32) · Jina Huh-Yoo (h 29) | |
| 64 59–76 | Whitman College | 20.3 | 4 (4 enriched) | 0 | — | John Stratton (h 17) · Janet Davis (h 14) · William Bares (h 13) | |
| 65 54–78 | Middlebury College | 16.3 | 14 (11 enriched) | 0 | $80k | Daniel Scharstein (h 30) · Michael Linderman (h 29) · Matthew Dickerson (h 25) | |
| 66 47–86 | Bowdoin College | 18.4 | 11 (8 enriched) | 0 | — | David Byrd (h 57) · Jeffrey Knockel (h 17) · Sean K. Barker (h 15) | |
| 67 60–72 | Harvey Mudd College | 11.5 | 18 (16 enriched) | 0 | $132k | Chris Stone (h 32) · Ben Wiedermann (h 12) · Jonathan Chang (h 10) | |
| 68 60–73 | Rhodes College | 15.8 | 7 (5 enriched) | 0 | $122k | Hong Xu (h 16) · D. Brian Larkins (h 7) · Sean Kugele (h 7) | |
| 69 63–71 | Temple University | 16.0 | 8 (3 enriched, partial) | 0 | $105k | Konstantin Bauman (h 9) · Sezgin Ayabakan (h 8) · Tamer Aldwairi (h 4) | |
| 70 58–78 | Carleton College | 16.1 | 14 (11 enriched) | 0 | $88k | Layla Oesper (h 34) · David Liben-Nowell (h 21) · Anna Rafferty (h 20) | |
| 71 54–87 | University of Richmond | 17.4 | 15 (11 enriched) | 0 | $77k | John R. Hubbard (h 57) · Joonsuk Park (h 38) · Patrick Martin (h 14) | |
| 72 57–80 | Yeshiva University | 15.4 | 40 (8 enriched, partial) | 0 | — | Honggang Wang (h 55) · David Li (h 43) · Ming Ma (h 26) | |
| 73 67–79 | Rochester Institute of Technology | 13.7 | 51 (34 enriched) | 0 | $83k | Edith Hemaspaandra (h 29) · Richard Zanibbi (h 28) · Mohan Kumar (h 24) | |
| 74 63–82 | Oregon State University | 17.5 | 13 (5 enriched, partial) | 0 | $75k | Julie A. Adams (h 34) · Houssam Abbas (h 18) · Tejasvi Anand (h 16) | |
| 75 71–79 | Swarthmore College | 12.5 | 19 (13 enriched) | 0 | $104k | Lisa Meeden (h 17) · Kevin Webb (h 12) · Tia Newhall (h 11) | |
| 76 57–82 | Colby College | 15.8 | 11 (9 enriched) | 0 | — | Amanda Stent (h 29) · Ying Li (h 17) · Stephanie Taylor (h 13) | |
| 77 59–87 | Colgate University | 17.1 | 14 (9 enriched) | 0 | $80k | Grusha Prasad (h 43) · Joel Sommers (h 30) · Aaron Gember-Jacobson (h 25) | |
| 78 74–81 | University of Alabama | 19.7 | 5 (4 enriched) | 0 | $70k | Purushotham Bangalore (h 15) · Monica Anderson (h 14) · Travis Atkison (h 13) | |
| 79 70–81 | Macalester College | 13.1 | 43 (31 enriched) | 0 | $82k | Michael Schneider (h 35) · David Bressoud (h 33) · Daniel Kaplan (h 30) | |
| 80 63–86 | University at Albany (SUNY) | 16.3 | 26 (20 enriched) | 0 | $50k | Ming-Ching Chang (h 53) · Jeff Offutt (h 48) · Pradeep K. Atrey (h 28) | |
| 81 71–84 | Hamilton College | 17.3 | 9 (6 enriched) | 0 | — | Thomas Helmuth (h 20) · Darren Strash (h 15) · Mark Bailey (h 14) | |
| 82 70–86 | Florida International University | 15.6 | 40 (32 enriched) | 0 | $63k | Michael Robinson (h 40) · Jason Liu (h 31) · Peter Clarke (h 30) | |
| 83 72–87 | Haverford College | 16.9 | 9 (7 enriched) | 0 | — | Sorelle Friedler (h 20) · David Wonnacott (h 20) · Rebecca Everett (h 12) | |
| 84 80–87 | Grinnell College | 13.8 | 12 (9 enriched) | 0 | $84k | Henry M. Walker (h 17) · Jerod Weinman (h 15) · Charlie Curtsinger (h 10) | |
| 85 82–87 | Chapman University | 13.4 | 43 (5 enriched, partial) | 0 | $67k | Dr. Daniel Alpay (h 39) · Dr. Rahul Soangra (h 15) · Rao Ali (h 5) | |
| 86 81–88 | Colorado College | 16.4 | 8 (4 enriched) | 0 | — | Janet Burge (h 16) · Varsha Koushik (h 8) · Danielle Ellsworth (h 8) | |
| 87 80–88 | Vassar College | 15.0 | 11 (10 enriched) | 0 | $80k | Jonathan Gordon (h 23) · Luke Hunsberger (h 14) · Jason Waterman (h 14) | |
| 88 82–88 | Davidson College | 13.0 | 18 (13 enriched) | 0 | — | Yan Zhuang (h 28) · Tabitha Peck (h 20) · Laurie Heyer (h 15) |
Method: Four within-field percentile components: faculty quality (mean h-index over the FULL headcount, not-yet-enriched faculty imputed at the field p25 with a small shrinkage prior), faculty power (quality x headcount, log), graduate earnings (Scorecard median pay 1yr after a bachelor’s in this major HERE), and curriculum depth (unique course titles, log). Weights renormalize over the components a college has — privacy-suppressed earnings or a missing catalog changes the evidence mix, never the direction. Partial enrichment: unranked entries are pending data, not low-ranked; imputation vanishes as enrichment completes. Every rank carries a bootstrap-resampled 90% interval (shown under the rank) — wide intervals mean the position could move as more professors are indexed. Weights: faculty quality 40% / faculty power 25% / grad earnings 25% / curriculum 10%; imputation at field p25; minimum 3 enriched faculty to rank. Source: college directories + OpenAlex (data/faculty shards) + College Scorecard field-of-study earnings (data/college_major_outcomes.json). Generated 2026-07-02.