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), program scale (bachelor’s degrees conferred, IPEDS) 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, 26 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 1–4 | University of California, Berkeley | 41.2 | 41 (33 enriched) | 13 | $119k | Trevor Darrell (h 139) · Pieter Abbeel (h 124) · David E. Culler (h 120) | |
| 2 1–5 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 36.2 | 53 (40 enriched) | 14 | $154k | Anantha Chandrakasan (h 116) · Hari Balakrishnan (h 107) · Regina Barzilay (h 92) | |
| 3 1–5 | Stanford University | 39.9 | 35 (31 enriched) | 10 | $139k | Leonidas Guibas (h 120) · Ron Dror (h 94) · William Dally (h 93) | |
| 4 1–11 | Carnegie Mellon University | 33.1 | 40 (37 enriched) | 5 | $171k | Christos Faloutsos (h 132) · Phillip Gibbons (h 83) · Gregory Ganger (h 71) | |
| 5 3–13 | University of Michigan | 32.0 | 54 (47 enriched) | 6 | $114k | Mark W Newman (h 103) · Ke Wu (h 99) · Kang G. Shin (h 94) | |
| 6 4–12 | Harvard University | 33.7 | 83 (70 enriched) | 16 | $152k | L Mahadevan (h 104) · Robert J. Wood (h 97) · Conor Walsh (h 77) | |
| 7 5–13 | University of California, San Diego | 37.3 | 40 (39 enriched) | 6 | $112k | Mihir Bellare (h 100) · Steven Swanson (h 82) · Vineet Bafna (h 81) | |
| 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 5–14 | University of Pennsylvania | 31.8 | 60 (48 enriched) | 9 | $135k | Christos Davatzikos (h 122) · Hamed Hassani (h 98) · Rajeev Alur (h 82) | |
| 11 4–15 | Princeton University | 29.5 | 60 (51 enriched) | 5 | $147k | Tom Griffiths (h 100) · Sanjeev Arora (h 80) · Thomas Funkhouser (h 78) | |
| 12 9–16 | Cornell University | 33.4 | 60 (56 enriched) | 8 | $128k | Jon Kleinberg (h 115) · Joseph Halpern (h 78) · Bharath Hariharan (h 76) | |
| 13 4–20 | Duke University | 30.1 | 42 (37 enriched) | 6 | $133k | Siqi Liu (h 184) · Jian Pei (h 95) · Michael Reiter (h 78) | |
| 14 8–22 | 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) | |
| 15 10–21 | University of Washington | 32.8 | 40 (36 enriched) | 7 | $101k | Matthew Golub (h 133) · Dieter Fox (h 94) · Michael Ernst (h 72) | |
| 16 12–20 | Georgia Institute of Technology | 28.2 | 52 (49 enriched) | 3 | $105k | Wenke Lee (h 80) · Ling Liu (h 70) · Mostafa Ammar (h 60) | |
| 17 13–27 | Rice University | 26.1 | 57 (45 enriched) | 7 | $131k | Ken Chen (h 103) · Moshe Y. Vardi (h 92) · Stephen Wong (h 73) | |
| 18 14–27 | University of Chicago | 25.8 | 69 (48 enriched) | 7 | $118k | Ian Foster (h 125) · Michael Franklin (h 86) · Eliu Huerta (h 85) | |
| 19 16–28 | Stony Brook University (SUNY) | 20.6 | 63 (51 enriched) | 1 | $140k | Dimitris Samaras (h 60) · Steven Skiena (h 56) · Hong Qin (h 48) | |
| 20 18–26 | New York University | 35.0 | 40 (38 enriched) | 4 | $88k | Yann LeCun (h 119) · Rob Fergus (h 76) · Dennis Shasha (h 68) | |
| 21 15–31 | California Institute of Technology | 27.6 | 20 (13 enriched) | 2 | $173k | Steven Low (h 89) · Erik Winfree (h 60) · Animashree Anandkumar (h 57) | |
| 22 16–32 | Johns Hopkins University | 26.1 | 62 (42 enriched) | 7 | $110k | Steven Salzberg (h 161) · Adam Phillippy (h 94) · Gregory D. Hager (h 78) | |
| 23 17–31 | Brown University | 24.7 | 50 (42 enriched) | 3 | $151k | John F Hughes (h 93) · Roberto Tamassia (h 62) · Maurice P Herlihy (h 61) | |
| 24 16–31 | University of Texas at Austin | 23.6 | 40 (26 enriched) | 4 | $112k | Kristen Grauman (h 84) · Inderjit Dhillon (h 81) · Don Batory (h 62) | |
| 25 20–32 | University of Wisconsin-Madison | 29.5 | 53 (44 enriched) | 7 | $81k | McDaniel, Patrick (h 73) · Livny, Miron (h 73) · Jha, Somesh (h 70) | |
| 26 19–38 | Dartmouth College | 22.9 | 37 (35 enriched) | 3 | $133k | Andrew Thomas Campbell (h 81) · Yu-Wing Tai (h 66) · David Kotz (h 65) | |
| 27 21–36 | Yale University | 26.7 | 34 (28 enriched) | 2 | $133k | Y. Richard Yang (h 79) · Vladimir Rokhlin (h 58) · Fan Zhang (h 57) | |
| 28 23–35 | 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) | |
| 29 23–36 | University of Notre Dame | 24.4 | 48 (45 enriched) | 3 | $97k | Kevin Bowyer (h 75) · Patrick Flynn (h 59) · Xiangliang Zhang (h 58) | |
| 30 26–34 | 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) | |
| 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 22–39 | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute | 24.8 | 37 (33 enriched) | 4 | $95k | Ge Wang (h 86) · James Hendler (h 79) · Mohammed Zaki (h 67) | |
| 33 24–37 | 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) | |
| 34 24–39 | Washington University in St. Louis | 23.8 | 51 (40 enriched) | 5 | $110k | Ning Zhang (h 87) · Chenyang Lu (h 68) · Sanjoy Baruah (h 60) | |
| 35 28–38 | Boston University | 27.3 | 40 (34 enriched) | 4 | $90k | Ran Canetti (h 81) · Kate Saenko (h 75) · Stan Sclaroff (h 70) | |
| 36 31–41 | Northwestern University | 20.7 | 49 (22 enriched) | 3 | $100k | Aggelos Katsaggelos (h 80) · Alok Choudhary (h 65) · Yan Chen (h 60) | |
| 37 31–46 | University of Minnesota, Twin Cities | 23.6 | 40 (33 enriched) | 3 | $83k | George Karypis (h 93) · Joseph Konstan (h 75) · Vipin Kumar (h 72) | |
| 38 33–46 | Tufts University | 20.7 | 40 (27 enriched) | 0 | $106k | Susan Landau (h 54) · Robert Jacob (h 54) · Matthias Scheutz (h 52) | |
| 39 22–54 | University of California, Merced | 24.1 | 23 (19 enriched) | 1 | — | Ming-Hsuan Yang (h 144) · Dong Li (h 41) · Shawn Newsam (h 35) | |
| 40 36–48 | George Mason University | 20.4 | 40 (32 enriched) | 0 | $82k | Andrian Marcus (h 53) · Giuseppe Ateniese (h 48) · Jana Košecká (h 42) | |
| 41 36–56 | Arizona State University | 27.6 | 13 (11 enriched) | 2 | $76k | Douglas Montgomery (h 78) · Rong Pan (h 60) · George Runger (h 55) | |
| 42 34–55 | University of Missouri | 20.3 | 40 (29 enriched) | 1 | — | Jianlin Cheng (h 68) · Dominic K.C. Ho (h 56) · Kannappan Palaniappan (h 46) | |
| 43 39–53 | University of Illinois, Chicago | 21.1 | 40 (25 enriched) | 1 | $78k | Chen, Hao (h 141) · Bernstein, Daniel J. (h 56) · Cheng, Lu (h 51) | |
| 44 39–51 | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | 18.3 | 44 (30 enriched) | 0 | $94k | Neil Heffernan (h 44) · Xiangnan Kong (h 39) · Yanhua Li (h 37) | |
| 45 39–56 | Lehigh University | 21.1 | 30 (25 enriched) | 0 | $86k | Lichao Sun (h 45) · Lifang He (h 45) · Brian D. Davison (h 43) | |
| 46 40–58 | New Jersey Institute of Technology | 24.2 | 40 (35 enriched) | 3 | $67k | Haotian Zhang (h 90) · Jing Li (h 70) · Zhi Wei (h 61) | |
| 47 41–56 | Case Western Reserve University | 22.0 | 15 (14 enriched) | 0 | $96k | Mehmet Koyuturk (h 37) · Jing Li (h 36) · Vipin Chaudhary (h 34) | |
| 48 39–58 | 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 43–58 | George Washington University | 20.8 | 26 (25 enriched) | 0 | $88k | Robert Pless (h 40) · David Broniatowski (h 35) · Timothy Wood (h 34) | |
| 50 41–58 | University of Maryland, Baltimore County | 17.4 | 67 (41 enriched) | 1 | $84k | Tulay Adali (h 64) · Curtis Menyuk (h 57) · Masoud Soroush (h 53) | |
| 51 42–61 | Colorado School of Mines | 19.3 | 40 (31 enriched) | 1 | $86k | Hua Wang (h 83) · Pejman Tahmsebi (h 51) · C. Estelle Smith (h 40) | |
| 52 44–65 | 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) | |
| 53 45–64 | Williams College | 18.1 | 14 (11 enriched) | 0 | $111k | Kelly Shaw (h 33) · Stephen N. Freund (h 28) · Jeannie Albrecht (h 19) | |
| 54 45–62 | Drexel University | 16.1 | 40 (30 enriched) | 0 | $87k | Ali Shokoufandeh (h 38) · Yuanfang Cai (h 37) · Dario Salvucci (h 36) | |
| 55 46–61 | North Carolina State University | 16.7 | 21 (18 enriched) | 0 | $86k | Tiffany Barnes (h 39) · Wu-show Chou (h 26) · Min Chi (h 25) | |
| 56 48–65 | 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 45–67 | Iowa State University | 19.2 | 40 (36 enriched) | 1 | $71k | Yang Li (h 65) · Qi Li (h 54) · Myra Cohen (h 38) | |
| 58 46–67 | Barnard College | 19.0 | 9 (6 enriched) | 0 | $107k | Rebecca Wright (h 35) · Smaranda Muresan (h 28) · Lucy Simko (h 11) | |
| 59 50–71 | 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) | |
| 60 52–67 | Stevens Institute of Technology | 15.3 | 40 (25 enriched) | 0 | $99k | Michael Greenberg (h 50) · Kai Li (h 32) · Jina Huh-Yoo (h 29) | |
| 61 54–72 | Brandeis University | 19.2 | 24 (17 enriched) | 1 | $80k | James Pustejovsky (h 59) · Nianwen Bert Xue (h 39) · Pengyu Hong (h 32) | |
| 62 58–65 | Temple University | 16.0 | 8 (3 enriched, partial) | 0 | $105k | Konstantin Bauman (h 9) · Sezgin Ayabakan (h 8) · Tamer Aldwairi (h 4) | |
| 63 54–73 | Middlebury College | 16.3 | 14 (11 enriched) | 0 | $80k | Daniel Scharstein (h 30) · Michael Linderman (h 29) · Matthew Dickerson (h 25) | |
| 64 57–75 | University of Connecticut | 19.2 | 40 (30 enriched) | 0 | $69k | Jinbo Bi (h 40) · Amir Herzberg (h 38) · Alexander Russell (h 38) | |
| 65 58–72 | Oregon State University | 17.5 | 13 (5 enriched, partial) | 0 | $75k | Julie A. Adams (h 34) · Houssam Abbas (h 18) · Tejasvi Anand (h 16) | |
| 66 49–81 | Connecticut College | 18.2 | 11 (6 enriched) | 1 | $86k | S. James Lee (h 61) · Gary Parker (h 12) · Ozgur Izmirli (h 10) | |
| 67 65–73 | Rochester Institute of Technology | 13.7 | 51 (34 enriched) | 0 | $83k | Edith Hemaspaandra (h 29) · Richard Zanibbi (h 28) · Mohan Kumar (h 24) | |
| 68 63–72 | Harvey Mudd College | 11.5 | 18 (16 enriched) | 0 | $132k | Chris Stone (h 32) · Ben Wiedermann (h 12) · Jonathan Chang (h 10) | |
| 69 60–77 | Carleton College | 16.1 | 14 (11 enriched) | 0 | $88k | Layla Oesper (h 34) · David Liben-Nowell (h 21) · Anna Rafferty (h 20) | |
| 70 63–74 | Rhodes College | 15.7 | 7 (5 enriched) | 0 | $122k | Hong Xu (h 16) · D. Brian Larkins (h 7) · Sean Kugele (h 7) | |
| 71 66–80 | Whitman College | 20.3 | 4 (4 enriched) | 0 | — | John Stratton (h 17) · Janet Davis (h 14) · William Bares (h 13) | |
| 72 49–87 | Bowdoin College | 18.4 | 11 (8 enriched) | 0 | — | David Byrd (h 57) · Jeffrey Knockel (h 17) · Sean K. Barker (h 15) | |
| 73 62–79 | Florida International University | 15.6 | 40 (32 enriched) | 0 | $63k | Michael Robinson (h 40) · Jason Liu (h 31) · Peter Clarke (h 30) | |
| 74 73–79 | University of Alabama | 19.7 | 5 (4 enriched) | 0 | $70k | Purushotham Bangalore (h 15) · Monica Anderson (h 14) · Travis Atkison (h 13) | |
| 75 62–81 | Yeshiva University | 15.4 | 40 (8 enriched, partial) | 0 | — | Honggang Wang (h 55) · David Li (h 43) · Ming Ma (h 26) | |
| 76 61–82 | Colby College | 15.7 | 11 (9 enriched) | 0 | — | Amanda Stent (h 29) · Ying Li (h 17) · Stephanie Taylor (h 13) | |
| 77 61–83 | 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) | |
| 78 61–87 | University of Richmond | 17.4 | 15 (11 enriched) | 0 | $77k | John R. Hubbard (h 57) · Joonsuk Park (h 38) · Patrick Martin (h 14) | |
| 79 62–86 | Colgate University | 17.1 | 14 (9 enriched) | 0 | $80k | Grusha Prasad (h 43) · Joel Sommers (h 30) · Aaron Gember-Jacobson (h 25) | |
| 80 74–80 | Swarthmore College | 12.5 | 19 (13 enriched) | 0 | $104k | Lisa Meeden (h 17) · Kevin Webb (h 12) · Tia Newhall (h 11) | |
| 81 73–81 | Macalester College | 13.1 | 43 (31 enriched) | 0 | $82k | Michael Schneider (h 35) · David Bressoud (h 33) · Daniel Kaplan (h 30) | |
| 82 74–84 | Hamilton College | 17.3 | 9 (6 enriched) | 0 | — | Thomas Helmuth (h 20) · Darren Strash (h 15) · Mark Bailey (h 14) | |
| 83 80–86 | Grinnell College | 13.8 | 12 (9 enriched) | 0 | $84k | Henry M. Walker (h 17) · Jerod Weinman (h 15) · Charlie Curtsinger (h 10) | |
| 84 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) | |
| 85 78–87 | Haverford College | 16.9 | 9 (7 enriched) | 0 | — | Sorelle Friedler (h 20) · David Wonnacott (h 20) · Rebecca Everett (h 12) | |
| 86 80–88 | Vassar College | 14.9 | 11 (10 enriched) | 0 | $80k | Jonathan Gordon (h 23) · Luke Hunsberger (h 14) · Jason Waterman (h 14) | |
| 87 84–88 | Colorado College | 16.4 | 8 (4 enriched) | 0 | — | Janet Burge (h 16) · Varsha Koushik (h 8) · Danielle Ellsworth (h 8) | |
| 88 83–88 | Davidson College | 13.0 | 18 (13 enriched) | 0 | — | Yan Zhuang (h 28) · Tabitha Peck (h 20) · Laurie Heyer (h 15) |
Method: Five 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), program scale (IPEDS first-major bachelor degrees conferred, log), 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 35% / faculty power 20% / grad earnings 25% / program scale 10% / 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.