CU-Boulder graduate programs rated highly by US News & World Report
University of Colorado graduate programs hold dozens of
spots in the latest annual rankings from U.S. News & World Report, whose
survey spotlights excellence in higher education across the country.
All four CU campuses are recognized for research and
teaching achievement in the fields of health care, engineering, law, education
and business.
Below is a sampling of CU’s rankings from the 2016
edition of Best Graduate Schools (U.S. News Media Group), as made
available in advance by U.S. News (full lists available on March 10). Some
rankings include ties with other institutions:
University of Colorado Boulder
No. 1: CU-Boulder’s atomic/molecular/optical physics
program maintains the top spot nationally.
Top 10: Other CU-Boulder programs ranking in the top
10 are environmental law (fifth), ceramics (eighth), quantum physics (eighth),
geology (ninth), physical chemistry (ninth) and aerospace engineering (10th).
Another 28 CU-Boulder schools and programs hold
places on the national rankings within their fields: chemical engineering (16),
education policy (16), clinical psychology (18), environmental engineering
(18), physics (18), civil engineering (21), earth sciences (23), chemistry
(24), speech-language pathology (25), audiology (27) School of Education (29),
biological sciences (30), psychology (30), College of Engineering and Applied
Science (34), mechanical engineering (35), electrical engineering (37),
computer engineering (38), computer science (40), Law School (40), political
science (45), mathematics (46), sociology (46), English (50), history
(50), Leeds School of Business (52 for part-time MBA schools), economics (53),
fine arts (53) and the Leeds School of Business (86). Not all disciplines are
ranked by the publication.
University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
School of Medicine
Top 10: The school ranks eighth nationally for
primary care, with the specialties of pediatrics (fifth) and family medicine
(seventh) also ranking high. The physician assistant program ranks fifth.
The School of Medicine ranks 35th overall for research.
College of Nursing
\Top 10: The online nursing degree ranks fifth.
The nursing master’s degree is 30th.
University of Colorado Denver
Top 10: The online criminal justice program ranks
ninth.
Other schools and programs ranking: health care
management (two spots: 18th, in partnership with the Network for Healthcare
Management; and 23rd), School of Public Affairs (29), Department of Integrative
Biology (Biological Sciences Ph.D. program) (75), the Business School’s
part-time MBA program (91) and the School of Education and Human Development
(96).
University of Colorado Colorado Springs
Top 20: The online engineering degree ranks 20th.
Also ranking are the online business MBA (40), nursing
master’s degree (75) and part-time MBA (130).
Rankings are based on two types of data: expert opinions
about program quality, and statistical indicators that measure the quality of a
school's faculty, research and students. These data come from surveys of more
than 1,900 programs and more than 13,700 academics and professionals. The
publication aims to provide a tool to students and parents who are comparing
college programs at accredited public and private universities in the United
States.
The 2016 Best Graduate Schools includes rankings in five
of the largest professional graduate school disciplines (business, law, education, engineering, and medicine), as well as part-time MBA and part-time law
school programs. For the first time, U.S. News also is ranking master's
programs in nursing based on both statistical and reputational data.
Detailed statistical data collected about each nursing school will be displayed
on searchable directory pages on usnews.com, as well as in the "Best
Graduate Schools 2016" print guidebook, on sale at newsstands on April 7.
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