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Later this month, the National Research Council will, finally, release the much awaited and much anticipated Data-Based Assessment of Research-Doctorate Programs. Every 10 years, roughly, the NRC publishes graduate program rankings, the last having been come out in 1995... The rankings will be released tuesday 28th September 2010. Today the participating universities will be told how to get embargoed prior access to the data for their own institutions, so they can prepare for the public release, next week the actual embargoed data will be released to each institution. 4838 graduate program…