PGR Preview: Top 15 U.S. Faculties Overall

Here are the 2006 survey results rating the top 15 faculties in the U.S.; the mean score follows in parentheses:

1.  New York University (4.8)

2.  Rutgers University, New Brunswick (4.7)

3.  Princeton University (4.4)

3.  University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (4.4)

5.  University of Pittsburgh (4.3)

6.  Stanford University (4.1)

7.  Harvard University (4.0)

7.  Massachussetts Institute of Technology (4.0)

7.  University of California, Los Angeles (4.0)

10. Columbia University (3.9)

10. University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (3.9)

12. University of California, Berkeley (3.8)

13. University of Arizona (3.7)

13. University of Notre Dame (3.7)

13. University of Texas, Austin (3.7)

There is a drop-off of .2 in the raw score for the remainder of the top 20.