Education

U.S. News has released its newest ranking for top schools.  Below are the results for 2009.  See the complete listings as U.S. News.

 

Law Specialty Rankings: Environmental Law

1	Lewis and Clark College (Northwestern) Portland, OR
2	Vermont Law School South Royalton, VT
3	Pace University White Plains, NY
4	Georgetown University Washington, DC
5	Duke University Durham, NC
6	University of Colorado–Boulder Boulder, CO
7	Stanford University Stanford, CA
8	University of Maryland Baltimore, MD
9	University of Oregon Eugene, OR
10	Florida State University Tallahassee, FL

 

Earth Sciences

1	California Institute of Technology Pasadena, CA
2	Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, MA
2	Stanford University NA, CA
4	University of California–Berkeley Berkeley, CA
5	Columbia University NA, NY
5	University of Michigan–Ann Arbor Ann Arbor, MI
7	Pennsylvania State University–University Park University Park, PA
8	University of Arizona Tucson, AZ
9	Harvard University Cambridge, MA
9	University of Texas–Austin Austin, TX
11	Princeton University Princeton, NJ
11	University of California–Los Angeles Los Angeles, CA
11	University of Washington NA, WA
11	Yale University New Haven, CT

 

Biological Sciences

1	Stanford University Stanford, CA
2	Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, MA
2	University of California–Berkeley Berkeley, CA
4	California Institute of Technology Pasadena, CA
4	Harvard University Boston, MA
6	Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, MD
7	Rockefeller University New York, NY
7	Scripps Research Institute La Jolla, CA
7	University of California–San Francisco San Francisco, CA
7	Washington University in St. Louis St. Louis, MO
7	Yale University New Haven, CT
12	Cornell University Ithaca, NY
12	Duke University Durham, NC
12	Princeton University Princeton, NJ

 

Chemistry

1	California Institute of Technology Pasadena, CA
1	Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, MA
1	Stanford University Stanford, CA
1	University of California–Berkeley Berkeley, CA
5	Harvard University Cambridge, MA
6	Scripps Research Institute La Jolla, CA
7	University of Illinois–Urbana-Champaign Urbana, IL
7	University of Wisconsin–Madison Madison, WI
9	Cornell University Ithaca, NY
9	Northwestern University Evanston, IL
11	Columbia University New York, NY

  

Physics

1	Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, MA
1	Stanford University Stanford, CA
3	California Institute of Technology Pasadena, CA
3	Harvard University Cambridge, MA
3	Princeton University Princeton, NJ
3	University of California–Berkeley Berkeley, CA
7	Cornell University Ithaca, NY
8	University of Chicago Chicago, IL
8	University of Illinois–Urbana-Champaign Urbana, IL
10	University of California–Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA
11	Columbia University New York, NY
11	Yale University New Haven, CT