The National Research Council study on the quality of "Ph.D. education in US" is done every ten years. The most recent ranking results became available recently.
Oregon State University ranking in the U.S.A.
| 1 | Stanford University | 37 | Johns Hopkins University | 73 | Vanderbilt University |
| 2 | Massachusetts Inst of Technology | 38 | Northwestern University | 74 | University of Nebraska-Lincoln |
| 3 | University of California-Berkeley | 39 | Ohio State University | 75 | University of Houston |
| 4 | Carnegie Mellon University | 40 | University of Utah | 76 | University of Texas at Dallas |
| 5 | Cornell University | 41 | University of Colorado | 77 | Iowa State University |
| 6 | Princeton University | 42 | Oregon Graduate Inst Sci & Tech | 78 | Louisiana State U & A&M College |
| 7 | University of Texas at Austin | 43 | University of Pittsburgh | 79 | Wayne State University |
| 8 | U of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | 44 | Syracuse University | 80 | New Mexico State University |
| 9 | University of Washington | 45 | University of Pennsylvania a | 81 | Washington State University |
| 10 | University of Wisconsin-Madison | 46 | University of Florida | 82 | Kansas State University |
| 11 | Harvard University | 47 | University of Minnesota | 83 | University of Central Florida |
| 12 | California Institute Technology | 48 | Univ of California-Santa Barbara | 84 | Naval Postgraduate School |
| 13 | Brown University | 49 | Rensselaer Polytechnic Inst | 85 | University of Texas at Arlington |
| 14 | Yale University | 50 | Univ of California-Santa Cruz | 86 | University of Kansas |
| 15 | Univ of California-Los Angeles | 51 | University of Illinois at Chicago | 87 | University of Alabama-Huntsville |
| 16 | University of Maryland College Park | 52 | Washington University | 88 | Old Dominion University |
| 17 | New York University | 53 | Michigan State University | 89 | Southern Methodist University |
| 18 | U of Massachusetts at Amherst | 54 | CUNY - Grad Sch & Univ Center | 90 | U of Maryland Baltimore County |
| 19 | Rice University | 55 | Pennsylvania State University | 91 | Illinois Institute of Technology |
| 20 | University of Southern California | 56 | Dartmouth College | 92 | University of Connecticut |
| 21 | University of Michigan | 57 | State Univ of New York-Buffalo | 93 | University of South Carolina |
| 22 | Univ of California-San Diego | 58 | University of California-Davis | 94 | Florida State University |
| 23 | Columbia University | 59 | Boston University | 95 | University of North Texas |
| 24 | University of Pennsylvania b | 60 | North Carolina State University | 96 | Lehigh University |
| 25 | University of Chicago | 61 | Arizona State University | 97 | University of Alabama-Birmingham |
| 26 | Purdue University | 62 | University of Iowa | 98 | University of Mass-Lowell |
| 27 | Rutgers State Univ-New Brunswick | 63 | Texas A&M University | 99 | Mississippi State University |
| 28 | Duke University | 64 | University of Oregon | 100 | Kent State University |
| 29 | U of North Carolina-Chapel Hill | 65 | University of Kentucky | 101 | University of Oklahoma |
| 30 | University of Rochester | 66 | Virginia Polytech Inst & State U | 102 | Tulane University |
| 31 | State U of New York-Stony Brook | 67 | George Washington University | 103 | Worcester Polytechnic Inst |
| 32 | Georgia Institute of Technology | 68 | Case Western Reserve Univ | 104 | Stevens Inst of Technology |
| 33 | University of Arizona | 69 | University of South Florida | 105 | State Univ of New York-Binghamton |
| 34 | University of California-Irvine | 70 | Oregon State University | 106 | University of Missouri-Rolla |
| 35 | University of Virginia | 71 | Temple University | 107 | New Mexico Inst of Mining & Tech |
| 36 | Indiana University | 72 | Univ of Southwestern Louisiana | 108 | Oklahoma State University |