It should be remembered that the survey includes both private and public universities, with widely differing admission and funding policies. To measure program improvement, the survey also addressed the perceived change in program quality over the last five years. In the case of OSU, it should be expected that the three recent early retirement incentive programs will have a negative impact on this figure for those strong programs which have lost distinguished senior faculty. Of the other three, chemistry is in the top 25, and has the highest rating above the national average of any OSU program. Of the other six, two programs were already highly ranked, and remain so.
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