SUNY Stony Brook's rankings in the biological sciences

The report furnished below summarizes information taken from the recent report prepared by the National Research Council for the National Academy of Sciences. The tables given below compare SUNY at Stony Brook (USB) with universities in our region as well as nationally.

STONY BROOK VS THE NEW YORK PUBLIC UNIVERSITIES

            Mol.Biol.    Cell &     E & E   Genetics    Neuro   Mean 
                         Dev                                        

USB              32         36        10        22        28     25.6 
Albany            -        122        54        68        75     80.0 
Buffalo         101         80       103        57        73     83.0 
CUNY            102        117        66         -        70     88.8 
HSC Syracuse    110         96         -         -         -    103.0 
HSC Brooklyn    139        148         -        75        68    108.0 
Binghamton      192        177        67         -         -    145.0
Comment: Stony Brook is in a class by itself.

STONY BROOK VS NEIGHBORING STATE UNIVERSITIES

            Mol.Biol.  Cell & Dev.   E & E    Genetics    Neuro     Mean     

USB             32         36         10        22        28       25.6     
Rutgers         36         60         26        31        46       40.0     
Penn State      45         56         26        33        67       56.8     
U. Mass         82         51         36        -         61       57.7     
U. Conn         73         103        40        59        58       66.6     
U. Maryland     84         87         45        -          -       72.0
Comment: Stony Brook is in one class and the other five are in another class. Not one of the other schools outranks Stony Brook in even one program.

STONY BROOK VS THE NEW YORK PRIVATE UNIVERSITIES

            Mol. Biol.   Cell & Dev.   E & E   Genetics  Neuro   Mean       

Columbia        10           19          -        12       6     11.8     
Rockefeller     21            2          -         -      13     12      
Cornell         22           36          4        23      24     21.8     
USB             32           36         10        22      28     25.6     
Einstein        28           26          -        25      26     26.0     
NYU             36           21          -        52      56     41.3     
Rochester       55           44         60        29      43     46.2     
Syracuse       110           96          -         -       -    103     
Albany Med.    122           94          -        78      77     92.8     
College                                                                             
NY Med.        171          121        128         -       -    140    
College
Comment: There appear to be four classes. 1) Elite - Columbia and Rockefeller. 2) Excellent - Cornell, USB and Albert Einstein. 3) Good - NYU and Rochester. 4) The rest - Syracuse, Albany Medical College and NY Medical College. It should be noted, however, that Columbia has no E & E which is Stony Brook's highest ranked program and Rockefeller has neither E & E nor Genetics. Genetics is Stony Brook's second highest ranked program.

NATIONAL RANKINGS IN BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

(Calculated as the mean of all ranked programs) 
1. UCSF	                       2.5
2. Harvard                     4
3. MIT                         4.5
4. Stanford                    4.8
5. UCSD                        8.2
6. Princeton                   8.5
7. Yale                        8.6
8. UC Berkeley                 8.8
9. Columbia U.                11.8
10. Washington U. (St. Louis) 11.8
11. Rockefeller               12
12. U. Of Washington          12.2
13. Duke                      12.2
14. U. Of Wisconsin           13
15. U. Chicago                14.6
16. UCLA                      16
17. U. Of Pennsylvania        16.4
18. Baylor Medical School     19.3
19. U. Of Michigan            21.4
20. U. Of Utah                21.7
21. Cornell                   21.8
22. Brandeis                  22.8
23 Johns Hopkins              22.8
24. U. Of Texas Southwest Med.23.3
25. Cal. Tech.                24.8
26. USB                       25.6

NATIONAL RANKING OF COMPREHENSIVE UNIVERSITIES

(Calculated as the mean for all schools that are ranked in all five areas of the biological sciences) 
1.	Stanford
2.	UCSD
3.	Yale
4.	UC Berkeley
5.	Washington U. (St. Louis
6.	U. Of Washington
7.	Duke
8.	U. Of Wisconsin
9.	U. Of Chicago
10.	U. Of Pennsylvania
11.	U. Of Michigan
12.	Cornell
13.	John Hopkins
14.	Cal. Tech.
15.	USB

NATIONAL RANKINGS OF PUBLIC UNIVERSITIES

(Calculated as the mean of all ranked programs) 
1.	UCSF
2.	UCSD
3.	UC Berkeley
4.	U. Of Washington
5.	U. Of Wisconsin
6.	UCLA
7.	U. Of Michigan
8.	U. Of Utah
9.	U. Of Texas Southwest Med.
10.	USB
11.	U. Of Oregon
12.	U. Of N. Carolina
13.	UC Davis
14.	Indiana U.
15.	U. Of Colorado

NATIONAL RANKING OF COMPREHENSIVE PUBLIC UNIVERSITIES

(Calculated as the mean for all schools that are ranked in all five areas of the biological sciences) 
1.	UCSD
2.	UC Berkeley
3.	U. Of Washington
4.	U. Of Wisconsin
5.	U. Of Michigan
6.	USB
Revised Oct. 2, 1995. For information on how these average ranks were computed, contact E. Katz e-mail