Big Changes in Geography Department Rankings
February 26, 2012
Yesterday I posted my Top 20 Geography Department Rankings. There were some big changes since the last time that the NRC produced rankings and I thought it would be interesting to look at how some departments have moved up and down. So, I compared the 1995 rankings with the 2010 rankings and prepared the list below. Boston University made the biggest improvement while the University of Minnesota took the biggest plunge.
Program |
1995 Rank |
2010 Rank |
Change |
Boston University |
27 |
1 |
+26 |
University of Maryland College Park |
29 |
3 |
+26 |
University of Oregon |
28 |
6 |
+22 |
Oregon State University |
33 |
18 |
+15 |
University of Colorado |
12 |
2 |
+10 |
University of Kentucky |
20 |
15 |
+5 |
Univ of California-Los Angeles |
8 |
4 |
+4 |
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee |
31 |
27 |
+4 |
Arizona State University |
15 |
12 |
+3 |
University of Cincinnati |
36 |
33 |
+3 |
Clark University |
9 |
7 |
+2 |
U of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
16 |
14 |
+2 |
University of Arizona |
19 |
17 |
+2 |
University of Georgia |
21 |
21 |
0 |
U of North Carolina-Chapel Hill |
22 |
25 |
-3 |
Pennsylvania State University |
1 |
5 |
-4 |
Univ of California-Santa Barbara |
4 |
9 |
-5 |
Ohio State University |
5 |
11 |
-6 |
University of Wisconsin-Madison |
2 |
10 |
-8 |
State Univ of New York-Buffalo |
11 |
20 |
-9 |
University of Iowa |
17 |
26 |
-9 |
Indiana University |
25 |
35 |
-10 |
University of Utah |
34 |
45 |
-11 |
Kent State University |
35 |
46 |
-11 |
University of Kansas |
26 |
38 |
-12 |
Syracuse University |
6 |
19 |
-13 |
University of Hawaii at Manoa |
30 |
43 |
-13 |
University of Washington |
10 |
24 |
-14 |
University of California-Berkeley |
6 |
22 |
-16 |
University of Nebraska-Lincoln |
32 |
48 |
-16 |
University of Florida |
24 |
42 |
-18 |
Rutgers State Univ-New Brunswick |
13 |
34 |
-21 |
Louisiana State U & A&M College |
18 |
41 |
-23 |
University of Texas at Austin |
14 |
39 |
-25 |
University of Minnesota |
3 |
37 |
-34 |
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