We list the top 43 Physics graduate programs, which include most of the California campuses.
1 MIT
2 tie
Caltech
Harvard
Princeton
Stanford
UC Berkeley
7 tie
Cornell
U. Chicago
9 U. Illinois – Urbana – Champaign
10 UCSB
11 tie
U. Michigan – Ann Arbor
Yale
Columbia
14 tie
U. Maryland – College Park
U. Texas – Austin
16 tie
U. Pennsylvania
UC San Diego
18 tie
John’s Hopkins
UCLA
U. Colorado – Boulder
U. Wisconsin – Madison
22 U. Washington
23 tie
Ohio State
Penn State
Stony Brook U. – SUNY
26 tie
U. Minnesota
Rice
Northwestern U.
29 tie
UC Irvine
UC Davis
Georgia Institute of Technology
Rutgers
Michigan State U.
Brown U.
Duke U.
36 tie
U. Florida
New York U.
Carnegie-Mellon U.
39 tie
UC Santa Cruz
U. North Carolina
U. Arizona
Indiana U.
Boston U.