U.S. News Media Group Announces the 2010 America's Best Graduate Schools
Washington D.C. – U.S. News Media Group today released the 2010 edition of America’s Best Graduate Schools, available online at www.usnews.com/grad and featured in the May U.S.News & World Report magazine, on newsstands April 28, 2009.
The 2010 America's Best Graduate Schools, which includes over 1,500 graduate school programs nationwide, is the most comprehensive listing of its kind. This year's edition includes new rankings of a variety of Ph.D. programs, as well as a first-ever ranking of part-time law school programs. In addition, having modified the law school rankings methodology to include class admissions data for both full and part-time entering students, U.S. News updated the rankings of main law schools as well.
“For the past 20 years, prospective students have turned to U.S. News’s America’s Best Graduate Schools for reliable information on the full range of graduate school programs,” said Brian Kelly, editor of U.S.News & World Report. "However, this year's package is especially relevant, as more and more Americans face an increasingly tough job market. With our new and updated rankings, America's Best Graduate Schools serves as a crucial resource for anyone considering professional development and continuing education opportunities."
America's Best Graduate Schools includes rankings in disciplines such as law, business, education, engineering, and medicine, among others (see listings below of the top 10 schools in each of these disciplines). The complete rankings in all disciplines will be available online at www.usnews.com/grad beginning at 12:01 AM ET on Thursday, April 23. The Premium Online Edition of America’s Best Graduate Schools features the most extensive rankings data available and is searchable based on user criteria (including location, specialty area, and more).
Highlights of the 2010 Best Graduate Schools package include:
• New rankings of Ph.D. programs in criminology, economics, English, history, political science, psychology, and sociology and graduate programs in library and information studies.
• New ranking of part-time J.D. law programs as well as updated overall law programs.
• New listing of the largest online graduate programs in business, education, engineering, library science, nursing, and public health.
• New editorial package including: Online Education: E-Learning clicks with students, Four Strategies to Save Money: Getting through graduate school without putting yourself in the poorhouse; Help for Your Student Loan Payments; and more stories on USNews.com
For more information about America's Best Graduate Schools, visit www.usnews.com/grad, and to learn more about the methodology and data research, visit www.usnews.com/aboutgrad.
2010 Graduate School Rankings
Schools of Business
1. Harvard University (MA)
2. Stanford University (CA)
3. Northwestern University (Kellogg) (IL)
University of Pennsylvania (Wharton)
5. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Sloan)
University of Chicago
7. University of California–Berkeley (Haas)
8. Dartmouth College (Tuck) (NH)
9. Columbia University (NY)
10. Yale University (CT)
Schools of Education
1. Vanderbilt University (Peabody) (TN)
2. Stanford University (CA)
3. Teachers College, Columbia University (NY)
4. University of Oregon
5. University of California–Los Angeles
6. Harvard University (MA)
7. Johns Hopkins University (MD)
Northwestern University (IL)
University of California–Berkeley
University of Texas–Austin
University of Wisconsin–Madison
Schools of Engineering
1. Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2. Stanford University (CA)
3. University of California–Berkeley
4. Georgia Institute of Technology
5. University of Illinois–Urbana-Champaign
6. Carnegie Mellon University (PA)
7. California Institute of Technology
University of Southern California (Viterbi)
9. University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
10. University of Texas-Austin (Cockrell)
Schools of Law
1. Yale University (CT)
2. Harvard University (MA)
3. Stanford University (CA)
4. Columbia University (NY)
5. New York University
6. University of California–Berkeley
University of Chicago
8. University of Pennsylvania
9. University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
10. Duke University (NC)
Northwestern University (IL)
University of Virginia
Schools of Law (Part-time)
1. Georgetown University (DC)
2. George Washington University (DC)
3. Fordham University (NY)
4. American University (DC)
5. George Mason University (VA)
6. University of Maryland
7. Temple University (PA)
University of San Diego
9. University of Denver (Sturm)
10. Illinois Inst. of Technology (Chicago-Kent)
Schools of Medicine (Research)
1. Harvard University (MA)
2. Johns Hopkins University (MD)
3. University of Pennsylvania
Washington University in St. Louis
5. University of California–San Francisco
6. Duke University (NC)
Stanford University (CA)
University of Washington
Yale University (CT)
10. Columbia University (NY)
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