美国国家研究委员会(United States National Research Council)主导的大约每隔十年的一项关于美国研究型博士项目的排名。该项排名作为主要的博士项目排名被广泛关注。
1 Stanford 4.83
2 MIT 4.79
3Illinois 4.70
4 Cal Berkeley 4.69
5 Cal Tech 4.46
6Michigan 4.38
7 Cornell 4.35
8 Purdue 4.02
9Princeton 4.01
10 UCLA 4.00
11 SouthernCal 4.00
12 Carnegie Mellon 3.94
13 Georgia Tech 3.93
14Texas 3.88
15Columbia 3.79
16Wisconsin 3.77
17Maryland 3.75
18Minnesota 3.73
19Cal Santa Barbara 3.71
20Cal San Diego 3.57
21North Carolina State 3.54
22Ohio State 3.53
23 RPI 3.44
24Washington 3.42
25 Polytechnic 3.42
26 Rice 3.36
27 VPI 3.30
28 Penn State 3.28
29Massachusetts 3.28
30 Yale 3.26
31Florida 3.26
32Texas A&M 3.25
33 Cal Davis 3.24
34 JohnsHopkins 3.23
35 Brown 3.22
36Washington ( St. Louis) 3.17
37Colorado 3.17
38Arizona State 3.17
39 Northwestern 3.16
40Arizona 3.12
41 Penn 3.11
42 Case Western 3.05
43Utah 3.02
44Michigan State 3.00
45 Notre Dame 2.98
46Rochester 2.96
47 Cal Irvine 2.96
48 Drexel 2.90
49Syracuse 2.86
50Rutgers 2.83
51 CUNY 2.79
52Iowa State 2.78
53Iowa 2.73
54Virginia 2.71
55 Duke 2.71
56 Northeastern 2.70
57Rhode Island 2.66
58 SUNY Stony Brook 2.63
59 Auburn 2.61
60 SUNY Buffalo 2.60
61Colorado State 2.60
62Texas Arlington 2.59
63Pittsburgh 2.59
64Oregon State 2.59
65Illinois Chicago 2.58
66Tennessee 2.57
67 Lehigh 2.54
68 Naval Postgraduate School 2.53
69Texas Tech 2.47
70 Vanderbilt 2.46
71 George Washington 2.46
72Kansas 2.45
73 Clemson 2.44
74New Mexico State 2.41
75 Clarkson 2.41
76 Southern Methodist 2.40
77 CentralFlorida 2.39
78Delaware 2.37
79Connecticut 2.37
80Washington State 2.32
81Missouri Rolla 2.32
82Missouri 2.29
83Boston University 2.29
84Illinois Tech 2.23
85Ohio 2.22
86 Air Force Inst of Tech 2.21
87Cincinnati 2.16
88West Virginia 2.15
89Wayne State 2.14
90Houston 2.14
91 Worcester Polytechnic Inst 2.12
92 Brigham Young 2.10
93 Stevens Tech 2.09
94Oklahoma 2.06
95Alabama Huntsville 2.03
96 WisconsinMilwaukee 2.00
97Kentucky 1.85
98 SouthwesternLouisiana 1.81
99Miami 1.77
100 LSU 1.75
101 SouthFlorida 1.72
102Mississippi State 1.67
103New Jersey Tech 1.66
104Oklahoma State 1.63
105Alabama 1.59
106South Carolina 1.58
107Kansas State 1.58
108 Florida Inst of Tech 1.56
109Arkansas 1.56
110Toledo 1.55
111Dayton 1.52
112 Howard 1.43
113 Old Dominion 1.41
114Akron 1.40
115Oregon Tech 1.39
116Wyoming 1.38
117New Hampshire 1.31
118Florida Atlantic 1.25
119Wichita State 1.24
120Portland State 1.19
121 SUNYBinghamton 1.16
122Massachusetts Lowell 1.15
123Vermont 1.05
124Idaho 1.00
125Tennessee Tech 0.94
126 Tulane 0.84