Forty Years of Progress
The stature and national ranking of the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
has risen dramatically over the past 40 years. The department was ranked among the
second tier of programs in the 1970 Roose, Andersen rating (the study upon which
subsequent NRC assessments have been built). More recent surveys over the past few
years, such as U.S. News and World Report, show the department ready to move into
the top 10 (see map inset).
While the differences among programs ranked closely together may be
small, two things are clear:
1) Rankings matter to prospective graduate students and
2) There are no comparable centers of academic excellence
within 1000 miles of Austin.
A number of measures, both qualitative and quantitative, document our progress to-
wards excellence.
• Total external research funding of the department has increased tenfold over the
last 40 years. The department currently ranks 2nd in the United States in this key
indicator of stature and productivity.
• The number of American Chemical Society certified bachelor degrees conferred
annually is the largest of any department in the country.
• The number of MA and PhD de-
grees granted over the past ten years
has been comparable to that of the
Top Twenty Chemistry Graduate Programs
2007 top 10 departments.
• Nearly every assistant professor in
the department has been recognized
by prestigious, competitive national
1
MIT
9 Cornell
5 Harvard awards that include: the National
Wisconsin 7
16 Michigan
15 Yale
Science Foundation’s CAREER
Northwestern
9 16
11
16
Columbia
1 Berkeley
12
Chicago 20
Princeton
Award, the Alfred P. Sloan Fellow-
1
Stanford
7 Illinois Penn State
Pennsylvania
ship, and the Camille and Henry
Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award.
1
Cal Tech
12 UCLA 16
UNC
• Honors awarded to senior faculty
6 Scripps
20 UCSD
are too numerous to list. The most
significant are membership in the
12
National Academy of Sciences, the
Texas
American Philosophical Society, and
the Royal Society and major awards
from professional societies, especial-
ly the American Chemical Society.
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