All new rankings of nearly 6000 graduate programs at 418 universities. Rankings include new data from NSF on where recent PhDs got jobs, how they were funded, and more.

by Bruce Gottleib, Slate, August 31, 1999. A caveat about the US News rankings.

This website provides advice and guidance for prospective graduate students in the biomedical and biological sciences. Because of the importance of funding in graduate education, this website concentrates on schools and programs that are well-funded by the National Institutes of Health.

A list of links to mathematics departments in the US, courtesy of Harvey Mudd College.

"TheCenter determines the Top American Research Universities by their rank on nine different measures: Total Research, Federal Research, Endowment Assets, Annual Giving, National Academy Members, Faculty Awards, Doctorates Granted, Postdoctoral Appointees, and Median SAT Scores."

Comprehensive set of overviews of graduate programs in all of the sciences.

These rankings provide a somewhat less academic perspective. They cover everything from academics and athletics to politics and parties and give a sense of what life on campus is like. You have to leave the office every once in awhile!

An interesting ranking of world universities based on their web presences.

"The NCA 2004 Doctoral Reputational Study invited the participation of all programs that offer the Ph.D. in communication. The study evaluated programs and organized them by rankings in the following specialty areas: communication and technology, critical-cultural communication, health communication, intercultural-international communication, interpersonal- small group communication, mass communication, organizational communication, political communication, and rhetorical communication."

November 23, 2005, Inside Higher Ed "The National Research Council formally got under way on Tuesday with its new assessment of doctoral programs, which has had a makeover since the heavily used and widely respected review was last conducted in 1995."

A collection of rankings assembled by the UIUC library.

Results of a 1996-97 APA survey.

"Upon retrieving The Gourman Report from the LSU library, I was informed by the reference librarian on duty that this volume was provided to patrons upon request, but only with a standard warning reflected in the concluding statement of a review of the Report that appeared in the Wilson Library Bulletin, 'Only an irresponsible reference librarian would add [the Gourman Report] to a collection'"