The National Research Council's (NRC) assessments are the most comprehensive evaluations of Ph.D. programs in the United States. The most recent ranking, published in 2010 and revised in 2011, evaluated data for the 2005-06 academic year on about 4,838 doctoral programs at 212 universities.

The 2010 report was highly controversial and provoked significant debate and discussion within the academic community primarily because of the complex methodology that it used. The level of attention reflects the influence that the NRC rankings have over the public perceptions of the quality of universities' doctoral programs and by extension their research enterprises.

UC graduate programs do well in NRC rankings, primarily because of the weighting the rankings assign to faculty research productivity, academic honors and awards — areas in which UC faculty do well by comparison to those at other institutions.

You may view or download a table of the raw data used to generate these charts in CSV files, which can be opened in spreadsheet programs such as Microsoft Excel or OpenOffice.

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