Ƶ Boulder Geography Ranked #1 in the U.S.
The Academic Ranking of World Universities by ShanghaiRanking's Global Ranking of Academic Subjects 2020 has rated the University of Colorado at Boulder's Geography Department #1 in the U.S. and #13 in the world.
"The University of Colorado Boulder is the major research university in the Rocky Mountain region of the U.S. Ƶ Boulder has a proud academic tradition, with five Nobel laureates in the sciences, nine MacArthur “genius grant” recipients, more than 100 Fulbright scholars since 1982, and approximately 80 combined members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the National Academy of Education, the National Academy of Engineering, and the National Academy of Sciences. Several Ƶ Boulder research faculty from the National Snow and Ice data center shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize with former Vice President Al Gore for their contributions to the international report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. The university has historically ranked as one of the top five sources of Peace Corps volunteers among U.S. colleges and universities and is the home of the founding chapter of Engineers Without Borders." --
Nat’l Rank | University | World Rank |
|---|---|---|
1 | University of Colorado at Boulder | 13 |
2 | University of Wisconsin - Madison | 18 |
3 | University of Washington | 20 |
4 | Arizona State University | 24 |
5 | Stanford University | 27 |
6 | The Ohio State University - Columbus | 29 |
7 | University of Minnesota, Twin Cities | 36 |
8 | University of California, Berkeley | 38 |
9 | Columbia University | 41 |
10 | University of Michigan-Ann Arbor | 45 |
11 | University of Arizona | 49 |
12-17 | Harvard University | 51-75 |
12-17 | The University of Texas at Austin | 51-75 |
12-17 | University of California, Los Angeles | 51-75 |
12-17 | University of California, Santa Barbara | 51-75 |
12-17 | University of Maryland, College Park | 51-75 |
12-17 | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | 51-75 |
18-25 | Cornell University | 76-100 |
18-25 | Dartmouth College | 76-100 |
18-25 | Michigan State University | 76-100 |
18-25 | Pennsylvania State University - University Park | 76-100 |
18-25 | Purdue University - West Lafayette | 76-100 |
18-25 | The University of Georgia | 76-100 |
18-25 | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | 76-100 |
18-25 | University of Utah | 76-100 |
26-41 | Brown University | 101-150 |
26-41 | Colorado State University | 101-150 |
26-41 | Duke University | 101-150 |
26-41 | Indiana University Bloomington | 101-150 |
26-41 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | 101-150 |
26-41 | Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey - New Brunswick | 101-150 |
26-41 | Texas A&M University | 101-150 |
26-41 | University at Buffalo, the State University of New York | 101-150 |
