E 6.12 Rating of All American Universities

Judged to have more than Five Departments

of High Excellence, 1935

Rank	University	# High Excellent Departments
1	Harvard	22
2	Chicago	21
3	Columbia*	19
4 tie	California, Berkeley	18
4 tie	Yale	18
6	Michigan	14
7 tie	Cornell	13
7 tie	Princeton	13
9 tie	Johns Hopkins	11
9 tie	Wisconsin	11
11	Minnesota	7

* Only biochemistry, engineering and physiology not considered to be of high excellence

of twenty-four departments ranked.

Source: Edwin R. Embree, “In Order of Their Excellence,” Atlantic Monthly, 155 (1935),

652 – 664.