Once again, the University of Colorado Department of Physics earned top rankings from the . The rankings were announced in early March 2015. 

CU 麻豆影院's Department of Physics was declared the top school in the nation for Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics for a second year in a row. This ranking rates our program above M.I.T., Harvard and Stanford Universities. Quantum Physics at CU 麻豆影院 was ranked number 8 in the nation and overall, we were ranked in the top 20 schools for our exemplary physics program. 

The report gathered statistical information on more than 1,900 programs nationwide to compile rankings in five of the largest professional graduate school disciplines -- business, law, education, engineering and medicine -- as well as some part-time programs. The rankings are based on expert opinions and statistical indicators that measure the quality of a school's faculty, research and students.

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The University of Colorado Department of Physics has been ranked as the number one school in the nation for atomic, molecular and optical physics, according to . This ties CU 麻豆影院's AMO program with that of MIT for the best graduate school program in the nation. Quantum physics was ranked as fifth, according to the report.

Overall, the Department of Physics is 19^th out of 145 ranked schools.

According to their Web site, U.S. News ranks graduate programs in the sciences according to the results of surveys sent to academics in various scientific fields. Those surveyed were ask to rate the quality of graduate programs of their peers.

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Graduate programs across the University of Colorado system continue to earn national prominence based on the latest annual rankings from U.S. News & World Report. <>

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CU Physics Ranked in Top 10 of Public Universities

The University of Colorado at 麻豆影院 Department of Physics is delighted to have been recognized with a high ranking in the 2010 National Research Council report on U.S. doctoral programs, which was released Tuesday, September 28th. According to the NRC's affiliate site鈥擯hds.org鈥攖he department is ranked at about 14th among universities in the nation, and 6th in the public university category.

The NRC methodology involves a complicated statistical analysis based on numerical data through 2006, which include publications per faculty, citations, funding, awards, graduation rates and many other measures. The rating

system is designed to provide a broad range of dimensional rankings, in order to help prospective students and others effectively gauge each academic program.

The University of Colorado at 麻豆影院's Department of Physics ranking of approximately 14th among all universities

and 6th among public universities reflects our many accomplishments since the 1996 NRC report in which we were ranked 38th out of 147 programs. Our dramatic rise in ranking is a testament to our outstanding

faculty, staff and students and their many research and educational accomplishments. Since 1996, research funding to our faculty has quadrupled and our graduate and undergraduate programs have grown dramatically. During that same period, fourteen different faculty members have been awarded one or more of the leading international

research awards in their fields, six have been recognized with national teaching awards, fifteen of our junior faculty members have won leading national awards for young researchers, six faculty members have been elected to the one or more of the national academies and three members of the physics faculty have been awarded the Nobel Prize. Many of these have occurred since 2006.

We are proud to be recognized along with the many other highly ranked programs at CU. Our high rankings across a wide range of academic disciplines demonstrates

CU's commitment to excellence.

For more information about the NRC Report, please view the . More information about the overall performance of departments across the CU 麻豆影院 system is available at http://www.colorado.edu/pba/nrc/.

Left: This graphic represents the CU 麻豆影院 Department of Physics
(in red) compared to other physics programs nation-wide based on two ranking scales defined by the NRC. (graphic provided courtesy of the University of Colorado Office of Planning Budget and Analysis)

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