All Institutions: Biological Sciences
Institution Name Weighted Rank: 1971-1980 Weighted Rank: 1976-1985 Weighted Rank: 1981-1990 Weighted Rank: 1986-1995 Weighted Rank: 1991-2000
Reed College 4 5 5 2 1
California Institute of Technology 1 2 1 3 2
Swarthmore College 7 9 10 5 3
University of Chicago 3 4 4 4 4
Kalamazoo College 39 20 13 9 5
Massachusetts Institute of Technology 15 12 12 11 6
Johns Hopkins University 20 11 6 8 7
Earlham College 9 15 28 13 8
Harvey Mudd College 12 16 59 27 9
College of the Atlantic 1 10
Grinnell College 29 14 15 23 13
Oberlin College 32 25 20 24 21
Wabash College 16 22 16 17 34
Macalester College 103 60 48 62 74
Ohio Wesleyan University 181 107 106 119 97
College of Wooster, The 41 86 82 90 107
Hope College 56 93 78 72 122
Kenyon College 59 82 88 91 145
Albion College 66 110 166 206 157
Antioch University, All Campuses 52 148 162 192 196
DePauw University 141 88 138 286 230
Denison University 157 130 167 336 375

We ranked high among all institutions in Life Sciences (8), Earth Sciences (14), Biological Sciences (8), and Geosciences (20). The rank for Life Sciences and Biological Sciences for the 1991-2000 time period showed an improvement over the last reported time period of 1986-1995, while Earth Sciences and Geosciences ranks decreased slightly. Earlham ranked much higher than most of the GLCA and overlap schools.