Best Universities for Information Science

Continuing my lists of   universities by major , here is a list of the best information science programs

·          Amherst College

·          Boston College

·         CMU

·         MIT

·         Notre Dame University

·         UCLA

·         University of  Michigan Ann Arbor

·         University of Pennsylvania

·         University of Texas Austin

·         University of Virginia

·         USC

In the USA

 Over the past year or so , this blog has  picked up several readers in the USA.

 I will be in  the USA for the next month
 Phoenix AZ  April 27-May 8
San Diego CA   May 9-13
 Los Angeles   May 13-23


 If anyone in this area wants to meet, send me email at clearskyeducation@gmail.com to schedule a meeting.
 Will be in  the UK and Europe in June/July

 As always the first meeting is free.


Best,
 Ravi

Best Univresities for Philosophy

Continuing my look at  liberal arts  fields, I wil look at philosophy today. The advantage of a philosophy major is that rather than teaching facts and  technical skills,  it teaches one how to think  and analyse.

  

·          Amherst college

·          Georgetown

·         Harvard

·          NYU

·          Princeton

·         Rutgers University

·         St. John’s College

·         Stanford

·         University of  Michigan  Ann Arbor

·          University of Pittsburgh

·         University of Virginia

·         Wesleyan College

·         Yale

Of the best rankings come from insider experts, for Philosophy-Dr. Brian Leiter at Texas maintains the Philosophical Gourmet Report , in which he rates philosophy programs and tracks important faculty movements.

Best Universities for Psychology

Psychology  and related programs  such as cognitive science are very popular choices in the liberal Arts.

 Here is a brief list of some of the best  universities for students interested in  Psychology

·         Amherst College

·         Brown University

·         Carnegie Mellon

·          Columbia University

·         Johns Hopkins University

·          NYU

·          Reed College

·         Stanford University

·         Tufts University

·          UCLA

·         University of California Berkeley

·          University of Chicago

·          University of Michigan

·         University of Pennsylvania

·         University of Texas – Austin

·         Washington University St. Louis

 Yale 

Best Universities for Political Science

 One of the most popular undergraduate majors is  political science. One asvantage of this major i that it is good preparation for  law school or even MBA studies.
The best programs are  at major universites and  the liberal arts colleges

·          Amherst College

·         Columbia University

·         Duke University

·         Harvard University

·           Johns  Hopkins University

·          Middlebury College

·           NYU

·         Pomona College

·         Stanford University

·          Swarthmore College

·          University  Michigan Ann Arbor

·         University  Pennsylvania

·          University California – Berkeley

·           University Chicago

·          University Virginia

·         Williams College

·         Yale University

 A few schools focus on  International Studies with in Political scienc e namely

 Georgetown University, Tufts University and Princeton University.

Best Universities for Bio Sciences and pre-med programs

  Bio and Health sciences  with pre-med options are another popular ndergraduate track

Here is a brief list of some of the better programs:

·          Case Western Reserve University

·         Carnegie Mellon University

Dartmouth College
·         Duke University
·          Harvard University
·         Northwestern University
·         Reed College
·          Rice University
·         Stanford University
·          Swarthmore College
·         University of  Michigan – Ann Arbor
·          University of Pennsylvania
·         Vanderbilt University
·         Washington University in St. Louis
·          Wesleyan University

Best universities for computer science.

I looked at the best Engineering  schools a few days ago,   I am taking a closer look at Computer Science programs today.


 This set of  schools have the strongest   CS departments.
 The 4 universities in bold - CMU|MIT| Stanford and  Berkeley are    considered to be the best  but the others are  also very strong.

• ·         Carnegie Mellon University
• ·         Case Western Reserve  University
• ·         Duke  University
• ·         Georgia Tech
• ·          MIT
• ·         Northwestern  University
• ·          Stanford University
• ·          University of  Michigan Ann Arbor
• ·          University of  North Carolina – Chapel Hill
• ·         University of California – Berkeley
• ·          University of Illinois -  Urbana Champaign
• ·         University of Rochester
• ·         University of Texas Austin