Top US Colleges and Universities for PHYSICS

College Name	Physics Rank	National Rank	State	Admission Rate
Arkansas	86	--	Hendrix College	60 %
California	2	7	California Institute of Technology	3 %
California	15	--	California State University-Los Angeles	87 %
California	13	15	University of California-Berkeley	11 %
California	70	28	University of California-Davis	37 %
California	66	33	University of California-Irvine	21 %
California	40	28	University of California-San Diego	24 %
California	26	35	University of California-Santa Barbara	26 %
California	64	--	Claremont McKenna College	10 %
California	10	--	Harvey Mudd College	13 %
California	21	--	Pomona College	7 %
California	29	28	University of Southern California	12 %
Colorado	58	105	University of Colorado Boulder	81 %
Colorado	85	--	Colorado College	16 %
Colorado	80	--	United States Air Force Academy	16 %
Connecticut	57	--	Wesleyan University	14 %
Connecticut	6	5	Yale University	5 %
District of Columbia	18	22	Georgetown University	12 %
California	5	3	Stanford University	4 %
Florida	90	124	University of Central Florida	41 %
Florida	42	269	Florida Institute of Technology	64 %
Florida	69	53	Florida State University	25 %
Florida	44	28	University of Florida	23 %
Georgia	56	24	Emory University	11 %
Georgia	32	33	Georgia Institute of Technology-Main Campus	17 %
Georgia	100	47	University of Georgia	43 %
Illinois	9	12	University of Chicago	5 %
Illinois	33	35	University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign	45 %
Illinois	28	9	Northwestern University	7 %
Indiana	23	20	University of Notre Dame	13 %
Iowa	60	--	Grinnell College	11 %
Indiana	72	43	Purdue University-Main Campus	53 %
Maine	88	--	Bates College	14 %
Maine	43	--	Bowdoin College	9 %
Maine	71	--	Colby College	8 %
Maryland	25	9	Johns Hopkins University	7 %
Maryland	73	--	University of Maryland-College Park	45 %
Maryland	52	--	United States Naval Academy	11 %
Michigan	17	21	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor	18 %
Michigan	47	60	Michigan State University	88 %
Michigan	94	151	Michigan Technological University	94 %
Missouri	50	24	Washington University in St Louis	12 %
Massachusetts	34	--	Amherst College	7 %
Massachusetts	83	39	Boston College	17 %
Massachusetts	37	43	Boston University	14 %
Massachusetts	3	3	Harvard University	3 %
Massachusetts	67	67	University of Massachusetts-Amherst	64 %
Massachusetts	1	2	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	4 %
Massachusetts	91	--	Mount Holyoke College	40 %
Massachusetts	74	53	Northeastern University	7 %
Massachusetts	51	40	Tufts University	10 %
Massachusetts	63	--	Wellesley College	14 %
Massachusetts	27	--	Williams College	8 %
Minnesota	53	--	Carleton College	17 %
Minnesota	84	--	Macalester College	28 %
Minnesota	82	53	University of Minnesota-Twin Cities	75 %
North Carolina	49	--	Davidson College	17 %
North Carolina	24	7	Duke University	6 %
North Carolina	61	22	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	17 %
North Carolina	97	60	North Carolina State University at Raleigh	47 %
North Carolina	89	47	Wake Forest University	21 %
New Hampshire	12	18	Dartmouth College	6 %
New Jersey	4	1	Princeton University	6 %
New Jersey	79	40	Rutgers University-New Brunswick	66 %
New Mexico	59	--	New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology	74 %
New York	55	--	Colgate University	12 %
New York	22	12	Columbia University in the City of New York	4 %
New York	11	12	Cornell University	7 %
New York	68	--	Hamilton College	12 %
New York	38	35	New York University	12 %
New York	39	60	Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute	65 %
New York	31	47	University of Rochester	39 %
New York	76	--	Vassar College	19 %
Ohio	81	53	Case Western Reserve University	27 %
Ohio	75	43	Ohio State University-Main Campus	53 %
Oregon	54	--	Reed College	31 %
Pennsylvania	87	--	Bryn Mawr College	31 %
Pennsylvania	14	24	Carnegie Mellon University	11 %
Pennsylvania	62	--	Haverford College	14 %
Pennsylvania	98	--	Pennsylvania State University-Main Campus	55 %
Pennsylvania	8	6	University of Pennsylvania	7 %
Pennsylvania	99	67	University of Pittsburgh-Pittsburgh Campus	49 %
Pennsylvania	36	--	Swarthmore College	7 %
Pennsylvania	95	67	Villanova University	23 %
Rhode Island	16	9	Brown University	5 %
Tennessee	30	18	Vanderbilt University	7 %
Texas	7	17	Rice University	9 %
Texas	20	32	The University of Texas at Austin	31 %
Utah	48	115	Brigham Young University	67 %
Utah	96	115	University of Utah	89 %
Vermont	41	--	Middlebury College	13 %
Virginia	78	53	William & Mary	33 %
Virginia	77	47	Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University	57 %
Virginia	35	24	University of Virginia-Main Campus	19 %
Virginia	65	--	Washington and Lee University	17 %
Washington	19	40	University of Washington-Seattle Campus	48 %
Washington	45	--	Whitman College	48 %
Wisconsin	46	35	University of Wisconsin-Madison	49 %

Disclaimer: Rankings are gathered from various online sources.

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