B: Berkley
C: University of CA - San Francisco
D: Stanford
E: Caltech
F: UCLA
G: Univeristy of Texas at Austin
I: University of Wisconsin - Madison
L: University of IL - Urbana-Champaign
M: Purdue
*Note: There are many more schools available in the U.S. which offer Ph.D. programs in chemistry. This is simply a list of those programs which have caught my interest, and are considered among the best overall. The Top 10 based on 1995 National Research Council Report on Quality in Ph.D. Education in the U.S. are: 1) Berkeley 2) Caltech 3) Harvard 3) Stanford 5) MIT 6) Cornell 7) Columbia 8) Illinois 9) Wisconsin 9) Chicago 9) UCLA.
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