Best Graduate Schools 2010

Terms & Conditions

U.S. News & World Report ("U.S. News") makes available a graphic (the "2010 America's Best Graduate Schools Badge") to ranked graduate schools (each, a "Graduate School") that meet the criteria set forth below and that desire to display the 2010 America's Best Graduate Schools Badge on their website. The use of the 2010 America's Best Graduate Schools Badge is subject to the following conditions:

• The 2010 America's Best Graduate Schools Badge is for website usage only. Display of the web-format 2010 America's Best Graduate Schools Badge must link back to the U.S. News website, www.usnews.com, using the link provided by U.S. News on the confirmation page where the 2010 America's Best Graduate Schools Badge is available for download.
• Business, Education, Engineering, Law, and Medicine schools must use the 2010 America's Best Graduate Schools Badge that specifies their category of graduate school. Other schools (e.g., Social Sciences & Humanities or Library & Information Studies) must use the 2010 America's best Graduate Schools Badge that does not specify a category of graduate school.
• To be eligible to use the 2010 America's Best Graduate Schools Badge, the Graduate School should appear in at least one of the following rankings categories, either in the 2010 book America's Best Graduate Schools or in the 2010 Premium Online Edition on USNews.com:
  • Numerically ranked schools of business and all business specialty rankings
  • Numerically ranked schools of education and all education specialty rankings
  • Numerically ranked schools of engineering and all engineering specialty rankings
  • Numerically ranked schools of law and law specialty rankings
  • Numerically ranked schools of medicine and all medical specialty rankings
  • Numerically ranked schools in Social Sciences and Humanities and specialty rankings
  • Numerically ranked schools in Library and Information Studies and specialty rankings
• For clarity, a Graduate School that appears in a tier, but is not individually ranked (e.g., law schools in the Fourth Tier) may not use a 2010 America's Best Graduate Schools Badge.
• The following categories are reprinted this year, and not freshly ranked, thus they do not qualify for use of the 2010 America's Best Graduate Schools Badge: Graduate Schools ranked in the following health disciplines: occupational therapy, pharmacy, physical therapy, physician assistant, public health, rehabilitation counseling, social work, speech and language pathology, clinical psychology, audiology, healthcare management, nursing and nursing specialties, nursing-anesthesia, nursing-midwifery, veterinary; science programs: biological sciences and biological sciences specialties, chemistry and chemistry specialties, computer science and computer science specialties, earth science and earth science specialties, mathematics and mathematics specialties, physics and physics specialties; Master of Fine Arts programs and specialties; public affairs and public affairs specialties. The 2010 America's Best Graduate Schools Badge shall only be used by the numerically-ranked Graduate School named to the America's Best Graduate Schools list, and may not be used by any parent, subsidiary, related or affiliated institutions, including but not limited to any affiliated distance learning programs. Online programs offered by the numerically ranked graduate school may use the 2010 America's Best Graduate Schools Badge if (i) the graduate school offers an online degree that is the same degree as the institution's ground-based degree, or (ii) the online program is relevant to the ranked graduate school's discipline.
• The 2010 America's Best Graduate Schools Badge shall only be used for the purpose of identifying the Graduate School as having been named to the America's Best Graduate Schools 2010 list and not to imply an endorsement of any products or services.
• The use of the 2010 America's Best Graduate Schools Badge is subject to the Graduate School correctly describing its placement on the America's Best Graduate Schools 2010 list. U.S. News has the right to monitor use of the 2010 America's Best Graduate Schools Badge, and if a Graduate School's description of its placement on the America's Best Graduate Schools 2010 list is inaccurate, U.S. News will notify the Graduate School and the Graduate School agrees that it shall immediately remove, or change, such materials in accordance with U.S. News's request.
• The 2010 America's Best Graduate Schools Badge shall only be used in the form and colors indicated, without modifications or alterations.
• Permission for use of the 2010 America's Best Graduate Schools Badge begins on the date that U.S. News officially posts the 2010 America's Best Graduate Schools list on usnews.com (that is, April 23, 2009) and automatically terminates twelve (12) months thereafter or as of the issue date of the U.S. News edition naming the next year's America's Best Graduate Schools list, whichever occurs first.
• The Graduate School acknowledges that the 2010 America's Best Graduate Schools Badges are trademarked and copyrighted creations belonging to U.S. News & World Report, L.P. and that all rights accruing from the use of the mark shall be to the benefit of U.S. News & World Report, L.P.
• The Graduate School shall indemnify and hold U.S. News & World Report, L.P., and its parents, subsidiaries, affiliated and related companies harmless from and against any and all liability, loss, damage or injury, including reasonable attorney's fees, relating either directly or indirectly, to the material on which the 2010 America's Best Graduate Schools Badge is used.
• Except as set forth herein, no other use of the 2010 America's Best Graduate Schools Badge may be made without U.S. News's prior express approval. For non-website uses of the 2010 America's Best Graduate Schools Badge, and any use whatsoever of the U.S. News & World Report logo, or any other text, photograph, graphic, cover or image of U.S. News & World Report magazine or www.usnews.com, the Graduate School agrees that it shall contact badges@usnews.com for specific written authorization. If used for advertising or broadcast purposes, U.S. News will review all submitted advertising uses for accuracy and may, in its sole discretion, deny permission or request changes in text that refers to the magazine and its content as a condition to granting permissions.