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1 The Ranking Methodology Collaboration is key at the Scripps Research Institute s Beckman Center for Chemical Sciences. By Robert J. Morse and Samuel Flanigan ach year, U.S. News ranks professional-school programs in business, education, engineering, law, and medicine. These rankings are based on two types of data: expert opinion about program quality, and statistical indicators that measure the quality of a school s faculty, research, and students. For the rankings in all five areas, indicator and opinion data come from surveys of more than 1,200 programs and some 9,600 academics and professionals conducted in fall We also rank programs in the sciences, social sciences, and humanities. These rankings are based solely on the ratings of academic experts (as are the health specialties in the professional-school section). For the first time since 2002, we ve updated our rankings of Ph.D. programs in the sciences (Page 56). And we ve produced new rankings of master s programs in library and information studies (Page 51) for the first time since To gather the opinion data, we asked deans, program directors, and senior faculty to judge the academic quality of programs in their field on a scale of 1 Our professional-school rankings are based on both expert opinion and statistical indicators. ( marginal ) to 5 ( outstanding ). In business, education, engineering, law, and medicine, we also surveyed professionals who hire new graduates. The statistical indicators used in our rankings of business, education, engineering, law, and medical schools fall into two categories: inputs, or measures of the qualities that students and faculty bring to the educational experience; and outputs, measures of graduates achievements linked to their degrees. Different output measures are available for different fields; as a result, the indicators we use in our models vary. In business, the value of students education can be gauged by their starting salaries after graduation and by how long it takes them to find jobs. In law, we look at the time it takes new lawyers to land jobs, plus state bar exam passage rates. This year we slightly modified our law school ranking methodology. After consulting with law school placement officials, we reduced the weight given to the employment rate of law school grads immediately upon finishing their studies and increased the weight placed on their employment rate nine months after graduation. We also returned to using the reported median lsat and undergraduate gpa for full-time law school entrants. We used a calculated median last year because of an absence of verifiable data for the actual median, but the American Bar Association now requires schools to report these data, permitting us to confirm the figures submitted to us. Scoring. To arrive at a school s rank, we examined the data for each quality indicator. Where appropriate, we adjusted the indicators in which low values actually indicate higher quality, such as acceptance rate. We then standardized the value of each indicator about its mean. The weights applied to the indicators reflect our judgment about their relative importance, as determined in consultation with experts in each field. The final scores were rescaled: The highest-scoring school was assigned 100, and the other schools scores were recalculated as a percentage of that top score. The scores were then rounded to the nearest whole number and schools placed in descending order. Every school s performance is presented relative to the other schools with which it is being compared. A school with an overall score of 100 did not necessarily top out on every indicator; rather, it accumulated the highest composite score. A school s rank reflects the number of schools that sit above it; if three schools are tied at 1, the next school will be ranked 4, not 2. Tied schools are listed alphabetically. More details about the methodology can be found with the ranking tables and at which also has extended rankings in many categories. l With Meadow Yerkie 16 USN&WR AMERICA S BEST GRADUATE SCHOOLS DAVID BUTOW REDUX FOR USN&WR

2 Schools of Business THE TOP SCHOOLS Peer Recruiter average 05 Employed assessment assessment average average 05 starting graduates 3 months out-of-state total Overall score score undergrad GMAT acceptance salary employed at after tuition full-time score (5.0 highest) (5.0 highest) GPA score rate and bonus graduation graduation and fees enrollment % $116, % 94.3% $37,500 1, Stanford University (CA) % $117, % 93.0% $41, University of Pennsylvania (Wharton) % $116, % 91.8% $42,154 1, Massachusetts Institute (Sloan) % $112, % 91.3% $40, Northwestern University (Kellogg) (IL) % $110, % 92.2% $38,844 1, University of Chicago N/A $113, % 93.0% $39,382 1, Columbia University (NY) % $113, % 92.0% $39,770 1,180 University of California Berkeley (Haas) % $105, % 94.1% $35, Dartmouth College (Tuck) (NH) % $116, % 93.3% $38, University of California Los Angeles (Anderson) % $100, % 94.2% $33, Duke University (Fuqua) (NC) % $104, % 90.0% $39, University of Michigan (Ross) % $108, % 87.0% $38, New York University (Stern) % $108, % 90.6% $37, University of Virginia (Darden) % $107, % 95.4% $37, Yale University (CT) % $100, % 89.4% $36, Carnegie Mellon University (Tepper) (PA) % $99, % 88.9% $39, Cornell University (Johnson) (NY) % $104, % 88.5% $37, Emory University (Goizueta) (GA) % $93, % 93.5% $36, University of Texas Austin (McCombs) % $94, % 90.0% $34, Univ. of North Carolina Chapel Hill (Kenan-Flagler) % $100, % 86.3% $35, Purdue University West Lafayette (Krannert) (IN) % $91, % 91.5% $28, Ohio State University (Fisher) % $87, % 95.4% $30, Indiana University Bloomington (Kelley) % $93, % 82.9% $28, Michigan State University (Broad) % $87, % 94.9% $23, University of Minnesota Twin Cities (Carlson) % $90, % 96.7% $32, University of Rochester (Simon) (NY) % $93, % 88.2% $35, Washington University in St. Louis (Olin) % $88, % 90.7% $35, University of Illinois % $80, % 95.9% $25, University of Southern California (Marshall) % $90, % 81.8% $70,164 ** 503 University of Washington % $82, % 95.3% $25, Texas A&M University College Station (Mays) % $81, % 96.6% $31,482 ** 149 University of Notre Dame (Mendoza) (IN) % $88, % 93.1% $32, University of Wisconsin % $80, % 92.1% $26, Arizona State University Main Campus (Carey) % $79, % 92.0% $25, Brigham Young University (Marriott) (UT) % $81, % 91.4% $11, Georgetown University (McDonough) (DC) % $99, % 88.3% $34, Georgia Institute % $78, % 94.4% $24, Pennsylvania State Univ. University Park (Smeal) % $85, % 87.9% $28, University of California Irvine (Merage) % $74, % 90.5% $35, University of Maryland College Park (Smith) % $85, % 91.5% $35, Boston College (Carroll) % $81, % 92.2% $1,020 * 177 Southern Methodist University (Cox) (TX) % $86, % 90.3% $33, University of Florida (Warrington) % $70, % 90.4% $21, Boston University % $84, % 91.9% $30, Rice University (Jones) (TX) % $92, % 92.5% $32, University of California Davis % $77, % 84.8% $34, University of Georgia (Terry) % $75, % 92.2% $23, University of Pittsburgh (Katz) % $69, % 92.8% $41,272 ** Babson College (Olin) (MA) % $83, % 88.9% $31, Tulane University 1 (Freeman) (LA) % $78, % 87.5% N/A N/A Vanderbilt University (Owen) (TN) % $90, % 80.7% $34, Sources: U.S. News and the schools. Assessment data collected by Synovate. Note: N/A means that the data were not provided by the school. *Tuition is per credit. **Tuition is reported for the complete degree program. 1 Tulane University was unable to complete the survey because of damage from Hurricane Katrina. Last year s data were used to calculate Tulane s ranking and are displayed here, with the exception of tuition. 20 USN&WR AMERICA S BEST GRADUATE SCHOOLS

3 THE PROFESSIONAL SCHOOLS EXCLUSIVE RANKINGS SPECIALTIES PROGRAMS RANKED BEST BY BUSINESS SCHOOL DEANS AND M.B.A. PROGRAM DIRECTORS ACCOUNTING 1. University of Illinois 2. U. of Texas Austin (McCombs) 3. University of Michigan (Ross) 4. University of Chicago 5. U. of Pennsylvania (Wharton) 6. University of Southern California (Marshall) 7. Stanford University (CA) 8. New York University (Stern) 9. Brigham Young University (Marriott) (UT) 10. Ohio State University (Fisher) ENTREPRENEURSHIP 1. Babson College (Olin) (MA) 2. Stanford University (CA) 3. U. of Pennsylvania (Wharton) 4. Harvard University (MA) 5. University of Southern California (Marshall) 6. Massachusetts Institute (Sloan) 7. University of Michigan (Ross) 8. U. of Texas Austin (McCombs) 9. University of California Berkeley (Haas) 10. University of California Los Angeles (Anderson) EXECUTIVE M.B.A. 1. Northwestern University (Kellogg) (IL) 2. University of Chicago 3. U. of Pennsylvania (Wharton) 4. Duke University (Fuqua) (NC) 5. New York University (Stern) 6. Columbia University (NY) 7. University of Michigan (Ross) 8. University of California Los Angeles (Anderson) 9. University of Southern California (Marshall) 10. Emory Univ. (Goizueta) (GA) FINANCE 1. U. of Pennsylvania (Wharton) 2. University of Chicago 3. New York University (Stern) 4. Columbia University (NY) 5. Stanford University (CA) 6. Massachusetts Institute (Sloan) 7. University of California Los Angeles (Anderson) 8. University of California Berkeley (Haas) 9. Harvard University (MA) 10. Northwestern University (Kellogg) (IL) INFORMATION SYSTEMS 1. Massachusetts Institute (Sloan) 2. Carnegie Mellon University (Tepper) (PA) 3. U. of Texas Austin (McCombs) 4. University of Arizona (Eller) 5. University of Minnesota Twin Cities (Carlson) 6. University of Maryland College Park (Smith) 7. New York University (Stern) 8. Georgia State U. (Robinson) Stanford University (CA) 10. U. of Pennsylvania (Wharton) INTERNATIONAL 1. Thunderbird (Garvin) (AZ) 2. U. of South Carolina (Moore) 3. U. of Pennsylvania (Wharton) 4. Columbia University (NY) New York University (Stern) 6. University of Michigan (Ross) 7. Harvard University (MA) 8. Duke University (Fuqua) (NC) 9. University of Southern California (Marshall) 10. University of California Berkeley (Haas) MANAGEMENT 2. Stanford University (CA) 3. University of Michigan (Ross) 4. Northwestern U. (Kellogg) (IL) 5. Dartmouth Col. (Tuck) (NH) 6. U. of Pennsylvania (Wharton) 7. University of Virginia (Darden) 8. University of California Berkeley (Haas) 9. Duke University (Fuqua) (NC) 10. Columbia University (NY) MARKETING 1. Northwestern U. (Kellogg) (IL) 2. U. of Pennsylvania (Wharton) 3. Duke University (Fuqua) (NC) Harvard University (MA) 5. University of Michigan (Ross) 6. Stanford University (CA) 7. Columbia University (NY) University of Chicago 9. University of California Berkeley (Haas) University of Texas Austin (McCombs) NONPROFIT 1. Yale University (CT) 2. Harvard University (MA) 3. Stanford University (CA) 4. University of California Berkeley (Haas) 5. University of Michigan (Ross) 6. Northwestern U. (Kellogg) (IL) University of Virginia (Darden) 8. Columbia University (NY) 9. Duke University (Fuqua) (NC) 10. Case Western Reserve University (Weatherhead) (OH) Dartmouth Col. (Tuck) (NH) University of California Los Angeles (Anderson) PART-TIME M.B.A. 1. New York University (Stern) 2. University of Chicago 3. Northwestern U. (Kellogg) (IL) 4. University of California Los Angeles (Anderson) 5. University of California Berkeley (Haas) 6. University of Southern California (Marshall) 7. Georgia State U. (Robinson) U. of Mich. (Ross) 9. University of Minnesota Twin Cities (Carlson) 10. Southern Methodist University (Cox) (TX) PRODUCTION/OPERATIONS 1. Massachusetts Institute (Sloan) 2. Purdue University West Lafayette (Krannert) (IN) 3. Carnegie Mellon University (Tepper) (PA) 4. University of Michigan (Ross) 5. Stanford University (CA) 6. U. of Pennsylvania (Wharton) 7. Harvard University (MA) 8. Northwestern U. (Kellogg) (IL) 9. Columbia University (NY) Indiana University Bloomington (Kelley) SUPPLY CHAIN/LOGISTICS 1. Massachusetts Institute (Sloan) 2. Michigan State U. (Broad) 3. Arizona State University Main Campus (Carey) 4. Ohio State University (Fisher) 5. Carnegie Mellon University (Tepper) (PA) 6. Stanford University (CA) 7. Pennsylvania State University University Park (Smeal) Purdue University West Lafayette (Krannert) (IN) 9. U. of Pennsylvania (Wharton) 10. U. of Tennessee Knoxville METHODOLOGY All 399 master s programs in business accredited by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business were surveyed. Of those, 347 responded, with 240 providing the data needed to calculate rankings based on a weighted average of the eight quality indicators described below. All 399 schools appear in the directory starting on Page 73. More information about the methodology appears on Page 16. Quality assessment (weighted by.40): Two separate surveys were conducted in the fall of Business school deans and directors of accredited M.B.A. programs were asked to rate overall academic quality of the master s programs at each school on a scale from marginal (1) to outstanding (5); 50 percent responded, and the resulting scores are weighted by.25 in the ranking model. Corporate recruiters and company contacts who hired M.B.A. graduates from previously ranked programs were also asked to rate the programs; 27 percent responded, and their ratings are weighted by.15 in the ranking model. Placement success (.35): This is measured by mean starting salary and bonus (40 percent) and employment rates for full-time M.B.A. program 2005 graduates, computed at graduation (20 percent) and three months later (40 percent). Those not seeking jobs and those for whom the school has no information are excluded from the placement rates. Salary figures are based on the number of graduates reporting data. The mean signing bonus is weighted by the proportion of graduates reporting their salary who received a bonus, since not everyone who reported a base salary received a signing bonus. Student selectivity (.25): The strength of full-time students entering in the fall of 2005 was measured by mean GMAT score (65 percent), mean undergraduate GPA (30 percent), and the proportion of applicants accepted by the school (5 percent). Overall rank: Data were standardized about their means, and standardized scores were weighted, totaled, and rescaled so that the top school received 100; others received their percentage of the top score. Specialty rankings: These rankings are based solely on ratings by educators at peer schools. Business school deans and M.B.A. program heads were asked to nominate up to 10 programs for excellence in each specialty. Those receiving the most nominations are listed. USN&WR AMERICA S BEST GRADUATE SCHOOLS 21

4 Schools of Education THE TOP SCHOOLS PeerSuperintendent 05 mean Ph.D. s & funded assessment assessment GRE scores Ph.D. & Ed.D. student/ Ed.D. s % Ph.D. funded research/ Overall score score verbal/ acceptance faculty granted & Ed.D. research faculty member score (5.0 highest) (5.0 highest) quantitative 1 rate ratio students (millions) (thousands) / % % $16.9 $ Teachers College, Columbia University (NY) / % % $35.0 $255.8 University of California Los Angeles / % % $30.7 $ Stanford University (CA) / % % $15.9 $ Vanderbilt University (Peabody) (TN) / % % $23.9 $ University of California Berkeley / % % $15.3 $ University of Pennsylvania / % % $16.1 $423.1 University of Wisconsin / % % $26.2 $ University of Michigan / % % $17.2 $ Northwestern University (IL) / % % $9.1 $ New York University (Steinhardt) / % % $28.8 $171.6 University of Minnesota Twin Cities / % % $25.4 $206.2 University of Washington /577 * 42.1% % $27.1 $ Michigan State University / % % $19.9 $ University of Oregon / % % $26.1 $483.0 University of Texas Austin / % % $20.9$ Indiana University Bloomington / % % $18.4 $ University of Illinois / % % $8.7 $ Boston College (Lynch) / % % $12.0 $199.3 University of Virginia (Curry) / % % $11.6 $ George Washington University (DC) / % % $16.2 $384.9 University of Connecticut (Neag) / % % $15.5 $292.5 University of Georgia / % % $16.4 $ Ohio State University / % % $17.4 $156.6 University of Kansas / % N/A % $21.6 $251.1 University of Maryland College Park / % % $16.5 $ University of Iowa / % % $16.0 $181.3 University of Southern California (Rossier) / % % $11.7 $ Pennsylvania State University University Park / % % $9.8 $84.8 University of North Carolina Chapel Hill / % % $10.5 $ University of Pittsburgh / % % $15.5 $ Arizona State University Main Campus / % % $12.7 $140.7 Johns Hopkins University (MD) / % % $6.1 $267.4 Lehigh University (PA) / % % $11.1 $ Temple University (PA) / % % $14.9$194.0 University of Florida / % % $7.1 $87.8 University of Tennessee Knoxville / % % $22.5 $189.5 Utah State University / % % $30.6 $ Cornell University (NY) / % % $1.0 $86.5 University of Delaware / % % $11.0 $239.9 University of Missouri Columbia / % % $14.4 $ University of Illinois Chicago / % % $12.3 $ Rutgers State University New Brunswick (NJ) / % % $10.6 $185.7 University of Colorado Boulder / % % $4.8 $ Texas A&M University College Station / % % $12.3 $ Purdue University West Lafayette (IN) / % % $3.4 $50.1 University of Oklahoma / % % $14.9$270.5 Washington University in St. Louis /647 * 13.3% % $1.6 $ Syracuse University (NY) / % % $5.8 $ University of Massachusetts Amherst / % % $6.5 $133.5 University of North Carolina Greensboro / % % $14.3 $ GRE scores are for doctoral students only. *School could not break out GRE scores for doctoral students; average scores for all entering students are shown. 2 Student/faculty ratio is for all full-time degree-seeking students and faculty. Sources: U.S. News and the schools. Assessment data collected by Synovate 24 USN&WR AMERICA S BEST GRADUATE SCHOOLS

5 THE PROFESSIONAL SCHOOLS EXCLUSIVE RANKINGS SPECIALTIES PROGRAMS RANKED BEST BY EDUCATION SCHOOL DEANS ADMINISTRATION/SUPERVISION 1. University of Wisconsin 2. Vanderbilt University (Peabody) (TN) 3. Harvard University (MA) 4. Stanford University (CA) 5. Pennsylvania State University University Park 6. Ohio State University 7. University of Texas Austin 8. Teachers College, Columbia University (NY) 9. University of Michigan 10. Michigan State University COUNSELING/ PERSONNEL SERVICES 1. University of Maryland College Park 2. University of Florida University of North Carolina Greensboro 4. University of Minnesota Twin Cities 5. University of Georgia University of Missouri Columbia 7. University of Wisconsin 8. Ohio State University 9. Pennsylvania State University University Park 10. Indiana University Bloomington CURRICULUM/INSTRUCTION 1. University of Wisconsin 2. Michigan State University 3. Teachers College, Columbia University (NY) 4. University of Illinois 5. Stanford University (CA) 6. Ohio State University 7. Vanderbilt University (Peabody) (TN) 8. University of Michigan 9. University of Georgia 10. University of Virginia (Curry) EDUCATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY 1. University of Wisconsin 2. Stanford University (CA) 3. University of Michigan 4. University of Illinois 5. Michigan State University 6. University of Maryland College Park 7. University of California Los Angeles 8. University of California Berkeley 9. Teachers College, Columbia University (NY) 10. Vanderbilt University (Peabody) (TN) EDUCATION POLICY 2. Stanford University (CA) 3. University of Wisconsin 4. Teachers College, Columbia University (NY) 5. University of Michigan 6. Vanderbilt University (Peabody) (TN) 7. University of Pennsylvania 8. University of California Berkeley 9. Michigan State University 10. Pennsylvania State University University Park University of California Los Angeles ELEMENTARY EDUCATION 1. Michigan State University 2. University of Wisconsin 3. University of Georgia 4. Ohio State University 5. Teachers College, Columbia University (NY) 6. Vanderbilt University (Peabody) (TN) 7. Indiana University Bloomington 8. University of Illinois University of Michigan University of Virginia (Curry) HIGHER EDUCATION ADMINISTRATION 1. University of Michigan 2. Pennsylvania State University University Park 3. University of California Los Angeles 4. Michigan State University 5. University of Southern California (Rossier) 6. University of Maryland College Park 7. Indiana University Bloomington University of Georgia 9. Stanford University (CA) 10. Vanderbilt University (Peabody) (TN) SECONDARY EDUCATION 1. Michigan State University 2. University of Wisconsin 3. Stanford University (CA) 4. Ohio State University 5. University of Georgia 6. Teachers College, Columbia University (NY) 7. University of Virginia (Curry) 8. University of Illinois 9. Indiana University Bloomington 10. University of Michigan SPECIAL EDUCATION 1. Vanderbilt University (Peabody) (TN) 2. University of Kansas 3. University of Oregon 4. University of Virginia (Curry) 5. University of Illinois 6. University of Minnesota Twin Cities 7. University of Maryland College Park 8. University of Texas Austin 9. University of Florida 10. University of Wisconsin VOCATIONAL/TECHNICAL 1. Pennsylvania State University University Park 2. University of Minnesota Twin Cities 3. Ohio State University 4. University of Georgia 5. University of Illinois 6. Virginia Tech 7. University of Wisconsin 8. Texas A&M University College Station 9. Oklahoma State University Southern Illinois University Carbondale University of Missouri Columbia METHODOLOGY Graduate programs at 276 schools granting doctoral degrees were surveyed. Of those, 242 responded; 240 provided the data needed to calculate rankings based on a weighted average of the 12 quality measures described here. Quality assessment (weighted by.40): Two surveys were conducted in the fall of Education school deans and deans of graduate studies were asked to rate program quality from marginal (1) to outstanding (5). Fifty percent responded. The resulting score is weighted by.25. School superintendents nationwide in a sampling of districts were also asked to rate programs. Twenty-six percent responded; their opinions are weighted by.15. Student selectivity (.18): This combines mean verbal and quantitative GRE scores of doctoral students entering in fall 2005 and the acceptance rate of doctoral applicants for the academic year (.06 each). Where mean GRE scores are not available for doctoral students, mean GRE scores for all entering students may be substituted, if available. Faculty resources (.12): Resources include the 2005 ratio of all full-time degree-seeking students to full-time faculty (.02); the percentage of fulltime faculty holding awards or editorships among selected education journals in the past two years (.025); the number of doctoral degrees granted in the past school year (.05); and the proportion of fall 2005 degree-seeking students who were in doctoral programs (.025). Research activity (.30): This measure uses total education school research expenditures (.15), average expenditures per full-time faculty member (.10), and the proportion of full-time faculty in funded research (.05). Expenditures refer to separately funded research, public and private, conducted by the school, averaged over fiscal years 2004 and Overall rank: Data were standardized about their means, and standardized scores were weighted, totaled, and rescaled so that the top school received 100; other schools received their percentage of the top score. Specialty rankings: Specialty ratings are based solely on nominations by education school deans and deans of graduate studies. They selected up to 10 top programs in each area. Those with the most votes are listed. USN&WR AMERICA S BEST GRADUATE SCHOOLS 25

6 EXCLUSIVE RANKINGS Teacher Preparation at the Top Education Schools Below, you ll find key information about teacher-prep programs at the top 50 U.S. News education schools, listed alphabetically. This table is not a ranking of these programs. Key attributes to consider when choosing a program include how many instructors are engaged in teacher prep, whether students intern in a professional development school that is closely tied to the university, and whether peer working groups are organized for student teachers. Type of 05 enrollment Alternative Students trained Students 05 full-time Preparation education in graduate route to in professional assigned to faculty offered for Nationally school: teaching licensure development peer working engaged in national School accredited 1 undergrad/grad programs program school groups teaching programs certification Arizona State University Main Campus No U and G N/A Yes All All 43 Yes Boston College (Lynch) Yes U and G 348 Yes All All 23 No Cornell University (NY) No U and G 26 No No All 8 No George Washington University (DC) Yes Grad 333 Yes Some Some 16 Yes Harvard University (MA) No Grad N/A No All All 9Yes Indiana University Bloomington Yes U and G 285 Yes Some Some 55 No Johns Hopkins University (MD) Yes Grad 412 No Some All 21 Yes Lehigh University (PA) No Grad 133 No Some Some 11 No Michigan State University No U and G 649No All All 69 No New York University (Steinhardt) No U and G 792 Yes Some All 59 No Northwestern University (IL) No U and G N/A Yes All All 8 No Ohio State University Yes U and G 738 No All All 115 Yes Pennsylvania State University University Park Yes U and G 55 No All All 87 No Purdue University West Lafayette (IN) Yes U and G 102 Yes Some Some 65 No Rutgers State University New Brunswick (NJ) No Grad 354 No No All 48 No Stanford University (CA) Yes Grad 91 No All All 13 Yes Syracuse University (NY) No U and G 174 No All All 39No Teachers College, Columbia University (NY) Yes Grad 1,602 Yes Some All 82 No Temple University (PA) Yes U and G 632 No Some Some 49Yes Texas A&M University College Station Yes U and G 42 Yes All All 40 No University of California Berkeley No Grad 106 No All All 35 No University of California Los Angeles No Grad 374 Yes All All 7 Yes University of Colorado Boulder Yes Grad N/A No Some All 21 No University of Connecticut (Neag) Yes U and G 179No All All 50 No University of Delaware Yes U and G 303 Yes Some Some 47 No University of Florida Yes U and G 217 No Some All 44 No University of Georgia Yes U and G 1,169Yes Some Some 115 No University of Illinois Chicago No U and G 313 Yes No All 28 No University of Illinois No U and G 99 Yes Some Some 59 No University of Iowa No U and G 213 No No Some 36 Yes University of Kansas Yes U and G 288 No Some Some 24 No University of Maryland College Park Yes U and G 158 Yes All All 49Yes University of Massachusetts Amherst Yes Grad 327 Yes Some Some 31 No University of Michigan No U and G 88 No Some All 24 No University of Minnesota Twin Cities Yes U and G 958 No Some All 127 No University of Missouri Columbia Yes U and G N/A Yes All Some 88 No University of North Carolina Chapel Hill Yes U and G 182 Yes Some All 48 No University of North Carolina Greensboro Yes U and G 201 Yes Some Some 87 Yes University of Oklahoma Yes U and G 175 No All Some 33 Yes University of Oregon No Grad 304 No Some Some 12 No University of Pennsylvania No Grad 397 Yes Some All 8 No University of Pittsburgh No Grad 299 No Some All 25 No University of Southern California (Rossier) No U and G 162 No All All 26 No University of Tennessee Knoxville Yes U and G N/A Yes All All 112 No University of Texas Austin No U and G 123 No All Some 44 No University of Virginia (Curry) Yes U and G 143 No All All 22 No University of Washington No Grad N/A No All All 37 Yes University of Wisconsin No U and G 310 No Some Some 159No Utah State University Yes U and G 762 Yes No All 115 Yes Vanderbilt University (Peabody) (TN) Yes U and G 139No Some All 32 No Washington University in St. Louis No U and G 51 No Some All 8 No 1 Denotes schools that are accredited by the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education, with the exception of the University of Virginia, which is accredited by the Teacher Education Accreditation Council. Accreditaton status as of February N/A means not available. Sources: U.S. News and the schools 26 USN&WR AMERICA S BEST GRADUATE SCHOOLS

7 Schools of Engineering THE TOP SCHOOLS 05 faculty 05 engineering 05 research Peer Recruiter membership school expenditures Ph.D. s 05 total Overall assessment assessment average accept- 05 Ph.D. in National research per faculty granted graduate score score quantitative ance students/ Academy ofexpenditures member 2004 engineering score (5.0 highest) (5.0 highest) GRE score rate faculty Engineering (in millions) (in thousands) 2005 enrollment 1. Massachusetts Institute % % $224.8 $ , Stanford University (CA) % % $142.7 $ , University of California Berkeley % % $118.0 $ , Georgia Institute % % $202.2 $ , University of Illinois % % $195.8 $ , Purdue University West Lafayette (IN) % % $211.6 $ ,273 University of Michigan % % $157.4 $ , Carnegie Mellon University (PA) % % $142.3 $ , University of Southern California (Viterbi) % % $157.4 $ , California Institute % % $51.2$ Cornell University (NY) % % $112.2 $ ,234 University of California San Diego (Jacobs) % % $128.8 $ , University of Texas Austin % % $106.9 $ , Texas A&M University College Station (Look) % % $179.0 $ , University of California Los Angeles (Samueli) % % $88.3 $ ,256 University of Maryland College Park (Clark) % % $145.3 $ ,943 University of Wisconsin % % $123.2 $ , Princeton University (NJ) % % $54.7 $ Pennsylvania State University University Park % % $121.0 $ , Columbia University (Fu Foundation) (NY) % % $75.0 $ , % % $33.2 $ Johns Hopkins University (Whiting) (MD) % % $53.2 $ ,723 Northwestern University (McCormick) (IL) % % $78.2 $ ,195 University of California Santa Barbara % % $69.1 $ University of Washington % % $91.8 $ , Ohio State University % % $106.8 $ ,235 University of Florida % % $92.1 $ , University of Minnesota Twin Cities % % $63.1 $ , Rice University (Brown) (TX) % % $33.1 $ Duke University (NC) % % $55.4 $ Virginia Tech % % $56.1 $ , University of Pennsylvania % % $47.1 $ , North Carolina State University % % $93.0 $ ,795 Washington University in St. Louis (Sever) % % $53.3 $ University of California Davis % % $60.0 $ ,116 University of Rochester (NY) % % $99.1 $1, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (NY) % % $41.7 $ , University of Virginia % % $50.6 $ University of Colorado Boulder % % $57.6 $ ,461 Yale University (CT) % % $24.4 $ University of California Irvine (Samueli) % % $44.5 $ Boston University % % $51.4 $ Case Western Reserve University (OH) % % $40.6 $ Dartmouth College (Thayer) (NH) % % $19.2 $ Iowa State University % % $58.6 $ University of Delaware % % $35.1 $ Arizona State University (Fulton) % % $44.9 $ ,498 Lehigh University (Rossin) (PA) % % $31.3 $ Rutgers State University New Brunswick (NJ) % % $82.7 $ Vanderbilt University (TN) % % $33.7 $ Sources: U.S. News, the schools. Assessment data collected by Synovate. Names of department heads used in the specialty rankings came from the American Society for Engineering Education. 30 USN&WR AMERICA S BEST GRADUATE SCHOOLS

8 THE PROFESSIONAL SCHOOLS EXCLUSIVE RANKINGS AEROSPACE/AERONAUTICAL/ASTRONAUTICAL 1. Stanford University (CA) Massachusetts Institute California Institute Georgia Institute 4.2 University of Michigan Purdue University West Lafayette (IN) Cornell University (NY) 3.8 Princeton University (NJ) 3.8 University of Illinois 3.8 University of Texas Austin 3.8 BIOMEDICAL/BIOENGINEERING 1. Johns Hopkins University (Whiting) (MD) University of California San Diego (Jacobs) Georgia Institute University of Washington Duke University (NC) 4.2 University of Pennsylvania Boston University Massachusetts Institute Case Western Reserve University (OH) Rice University (Brown) (TX) 3.8 University of Michigan 3.8 CHEMICAL 1. Massachusetts Institute California Institute 4.7 University of California Berkeley 4.7 University of Minnesota Twin Cities University of Wisconsin Stanford University (CA) Princeton University (NJ) 4.3 University of Texas Austin University of California Santa Barbara 4.2 University of Delaware 4.2 CIVIL 1. University of California Berkeley 4.7 University of Illinois Stanford University (CA) Georgia Institute 4.4 Massachusetts Institute 4.4 University of Texas Austin California Institute Purdue University West Lafayette (IN) Cornell University (NY) Carnegie Mellon University (PA) 4.0 Northwestern University (McCormick) (IL) 4.0 University of Michigan 4.0 Virginia Tech 4.0 COMPUTER ENGINEERING 1. Massachusetts Institute 4.9 Stanford University (CA) Carnegie Mellon University (PA) 4.8 University of California Berkeley University of Illinois University of Michigan Georgia Institute University of Texas Austin Cornell University (NY) California Institute 4.1 Princeton University (NJ) 4.1 Purdue University West Lafayette (IN) 4.1 ELECTRICAL/ELECTRONIC/COMMUNICATIONS 1. Massachusetts Institute Stanford University (CA) 4.9 University of California Berkeley University of Illinois California Institute University of Michigan Carnegie Mellon University (PA) 4.4 Georgia Institute Cornell University (NY) University of Texas Austin 4.2 SPECIALTIES PROGRAMS RANKED BEST BY ENGINEERING SCHOOL DEPARTMENT HEADS Average assessment Average assessment ENVIRONMENTAL/ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH 1. Stanford University (CA) Johns Hopkins University (Whiting) (MD) 4.3 University of California Berkeley 4.3 University of Texas Austin University of Illinois 4.2 University of Michigan Carnegie Mellon University (PA) 4.0 Georgia Institute 4.0 University of North Carolina Chapel Hill California Institute 3.9 INDUSTRIAL/MANUFACTURING 1. Georgia Institute University of Michigan University of California Berkeley Pennsylvania State University University Park 4.1 Purdue University West Lafayette (IN) 4.1 Stanford University (CA) Northwestern University (McCormick) (IL) Cornell University (NY) 3.9 Texas A&M University College Station (Look) 3.9 Virginia Tech 3.9 MATERIALS 1. Massachusetts Institute University of Illinois Northwestern University (McCormick) (IL) 4.5 University of California Santa Barbara Stanford University (CA) University of California Berkeley 4.1 University of Florida 4.1 University of Michigan Cornell University (NY) 4.0 Pennsylvania State University University Park 4.0 MECHANICAL 1. Massachusetts Institute Stanford University (CA) California Institute 4.7 University of California Berkeley University of Illinois 4.5 University of Michigan Georgia Institute Cornell University (NY) 4.3 Purdue University West Lafayette (IN) Carnegie Mellon University (PA) 4.0 Northwestern University (McCormick) (IL) 4.0 Princeton University (NJ) 4.0 University of Texas Austin 4.0 NUCLEAR 1. University of Michigan Massachusetts Institute University of Wisconsin Texas A&M University College Station (Look) Purdue University West Lafayette (IN) North Carolina State University Pennsylvania State University University Park 3.4 University of California Berkeley Oregon State University 3.2 University of Florida 3.2 PETROLEUM 1. Stanford University (CA) 4.6 University of Texas Austin Texas A&M University College Station (Look) University of Tulsa (OK) Colorado School of Mines University of Oklahoma Pennsylvania State University University Park University of Southern California (Viterbi) Louisiana State University Baton Rouge Texas Tech University 2.5 METHODOLOGY Programs at 199 engineering schools that grant doctoral degrees were surveyed; 185 responded, and the previous year s data were used for two additional schools that were affected by Hurricane Katrina. Rankings for 187 schools were calculated based on a weighted average of the 10 indicators described below. (All schools are listed in the directory, beginning on Page 73.) Quality assessment (weighted by.40): Two surveys were conducted in fall Engineering school deans and deans of graduate studies were each asked to rate program quality from marginal (1) to outstanding (5); 61 percent responded. The resulting score is weighted by.25. Corporate recruiters and company contacts who hire engineers with graduate degrees from previously ranked engineering schools were also asked to rate programs; 27 percent responded. Their opinions are weighted by.15. Student selectivity (.10): The strength of master s and Ph.D. students entering in fall 2005 was measured by mean GRE quantitative score (67.5 percent) and acceptance rate (32.5 percent). Faculty resources (.25): Based on the 2005 ratio of full-time doctoral students to full-time faculty (30 percent) and full-time master s students to full-time faculty (15 percent); the proportion of full-time faculty in the National Academy of Engineering in 2005 (30 percent); and the number of engineering doctoral degrees granted in the last school year (25 percent). Research activity (.25): Based on total externally funded engineering research expenditures (60 percent) and research dollars per full-time tenured and tenure-track engineering faculty member (40 percent). Expenditures refer to separately funded research, public and private, conducted by the school, averaged over fiscal years 2004 and Overall rank: Data were standardized about their means, and standardized scores were weighted, totaled, and rescaled so that the top-scoring school received 100; others received their percentage of the top score. Specialty rankings: These rankings are based solely on assessments by department heads in each specialty area. Department heads in their specialty area rated the other schools that offered the specialty on a 5-point scale. Those schools with the highest average scores appear here. Names of the department heads who were surveyed came from the American Society for Engineering Education. USN&WR AMERICA S BEST GRADUATE SCHOOLS 31

9 Schools of Medicine THE TOP SCHOOLS RESEARCH Assessment 05 NIH Peer score by research total assessment residency average average 05 NIH research grants per faculty/ out-of-state medical Overall score directors undergrad MCAT acceptance grants faculty member student tuition school score (5.0 highest) (5.0 highest) GPAscore rate (in millions) (in thousands) ratio and fees enrollment % $1,171.0 $ $38, Johns Hopkins University (MD) % $475.4 $ $35, University of Pennsylvania % $500.8 $ $39, University of California San Francisco % $422.9 $ $34, Washington University in St. Louis % $358.9 $ $39, Duke University (NC) % $330.8 * $195.2 * 4.2 $39, Stanford University (CA) % $244.5 * $332.2 * 1.5 $38, University of Washington % $538.8 $ $34, Yale University (CT) % $300.7 $ $37, Baylor College of Medicine (TX) % $454.2 $ $23, Columbia U. Col. of Physicians and Surgeons (NY) % $300.3 $ $41, University of California Los Angeles (Geffen) % $426.8 $ $33, University of Michigan % $315.2 $ $34, University of California San Diego % $273.7 $ $34, Cornell University (Weill) (NY) % $286.2 $ $33, University of Pittsburgh % $330.0 $ $37, University of Chicago (Pritzker) % $197.8 $ $34, Vanderbilt University (TN) % $249.3 $ $36, U. of Texas Southwestern Medical Center Dallas % $187.9 $ $23, Northwestern University (Feinberg) (IL) % $205.9 $ $40, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill % $212.3 $ $34, Case Western Reserve University (OH) % $240.2 $ $39, Mayo Medical School (MN) % $201.8 $ $26, University of Alabama Birmingham % $193.4 * $181.6* 1.6 $38, University of Virginia % $146.2 * $165.7 * 1.6 $38, Emory University (GA) % $187.1 $ $36, U. of Colorado Denver and Health Sciences Center % $223.1 $ $72, Boston University % $196.4 $ $39, University of Wisconsin % $182.8 $ $32, Mount Sinai School of Medicine (NY) % $174.1 * $146.6 * 2.5 $37, University of Iowa (Carver) % $145.9 $ $40, Dartmouth Medical School (NH) % $109.4 $ $36, New York University % $138.8 $ $38, Ohio State University % $227.1 $ $28, Oregon Health and Science University % $188.5 $ $38, University of Rochester (NY) % $140.6 $ $37, University of Southern California (Keck) % $159.0 $ $40, Brown University (RI) % $103.8 $ $37, University of Minnesota Medical School % $148.4 $ $37, Yeshiva University (Einstein) (NY) % $203.8 $ $39, Wake Forest University (NC) % $128.2 * $147.5 * 2.0 $34, Tufts University (MA) % $85.9 $ $43, University of Cincinnati % $190.2 $ $41, University of Maryland % $159.8 * $138.2 * 1.9 $36, Indiana University Indianapolis % $101.1 * $78.5 * 1.1 $41,298 1, Georgetown University (DC) % $158.8 $ $39, University of California Irvine % $82.2 $ $35, University of California Davis % $72.8 $ $35, University of Massachusetts Worcester % $121.0 * $128.8 * 2.3 N/A Stony Brook University (NY) % $75.3 $ $34, Tulane University 1 (LA) % $73.3 $ University of Florida % $82.7 $ $47, University of Utah % $101.7 $ $32, *The school reported only research grants the National Institutes of Health made to the medical school. No grants to affiliated hospitals were reported. Sources: U.S. News and the schools. Assessment data collected by Synovate. 1 Tulane University was unable to complete the survey because of damage from Hurricane Katrina. Last year s data were used to calculate Tulane s ranking and are displayed here, with the exception of tuition. N/A: School does not accept out-of-state students to its M.D. program 34 USN&WR AMERICA S BEST GRADUATE SCHOOLS

10 THE PROFESSIONAL SCHOOLS EXCLUSIVE RANKINGS THE TOP SCHOOLS PRIMARY CARE Assessment Peer score by % total assessment residency average average 05 graduates faculty/ out-of-state medical Overall score directors Selectivity undergrad MCAT acceptance entering student tuition school score (5.0 highest) (5.0 highest) rank GPAscore rate primary care ratio and fees enrollment 1. University of Washington % 46.0% 2.4 $34, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill % 48.0% 1.7 $34, Oregon Health and Science University % 41.0% 3.0 $38, Mich. State U. Coll. of Osteopathic Medicine % 85.8% 0.3 $51, University of Massachusetts Worcester % 57.0% 2.3 N/A Duke University (NC) % 43.1% 4.2 $39, East Carolina University (Brody) (NC) % 62.0% 1.4 $32, U. of Colorado Denver and Health Sciences Center % 42.7% 2.7 $72, University of Wisconsin % 46.6% 1.7 $32, University of California San Francisco % 34.5% 2.7 $34, Baylor College of Medicine (TX) % 45.6% 2.6 $23, University of Iowa (Carver) % 43.1% 1.5 $40, University of Nebraska College of Medicine % 61.0% 1.2 $49, Michigan State University % 50.1% 0.7 $51, University of Vermont % 55.0% 1.2 $43, Brown University (RI) % 46.3% 2.0 $37, University of Minnesota Medical School % 47.4% 1.7 $37, University of Missouri Columbia % 52.0% 1.2 $42, University of Pennsylvania % 37.0% 3.3 $39, U. of Texas Southwestern Medical Center Dallas % 44.0% 1.6$23, Case Western Reserve University (OH) % 43.3% 2.9 $39, Dartmouth Medical School (NH) % 43.1% 2.7 $36, University of California Davis % 47.1% 1.4 $35, University of Rochester (NY) % 32.1% 3.2 $37, Harvard University (MA) % 41.0% 10.2 $38, University of New Mexico % 43.0% 2.0 $38, Wake Forest University (NC) % 49.0% 2.0 $34, University of Alabama Birmingham % 38.0% 1.6 $38, University of Michigan % 29.9% 2.8 $34, U. of N. Tex. Hlth. Sci. Ctr. (Tex. Col. of Osteopathic Med.) % 77.7% 0.6 $26, University of Virginia % 37.0% 1.6 $38, Yeshiva University (Einstein) (NY) % 55.0% 3.5 $39, Indiana University Indianapolis % 41.3% 1.1 $41,298 1,162 Ohio State University % 43.0% 2.3 $28, University of California San Diego % 41.4% 1.6 $34, University of Maryland % 47.0% 1.9 $36, University of Pittsburgh % 34.9% 3.0 $37, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences % 52.0% 1.7 $28, University of California Los Angeles (Geffen) % 39.7% 3.0 $33, University of Connecticut % 50.3% 1.4 $42, East Tennessee State Univ. (Quillen) % 50.6% 1.1 $36, Emory University (GA) % 42.0% 3.8 $36, Johns Hopkins University (MD) % 37.0% 4.7 $35, Medical College of Wisconsin % 44.0% 1.3 $33, Medical College of Georgia % 42.3% 0.7 $34, Northwestern University (Feinberg) (IL) % 40.5% 2.6 $40, Oklahoma State Univ. Center for Health Sciences % 67.0% 0.2 $32, University of Utah % 36.3% 2.4 $32, Cornell University (Weill) (NY) % 40.4% 4.9 $33, University of Chicago (Pritzker) % 47.0% 1.9 $34, West Virginia School of Osteopathic Medicine % 87.3% 0.1 $45, N/A: The school does not accept out-of-state students to its M.D. program. Sources: U.S. News and the schools. Peer assessment data collected by Synovate USN&WR AMERICA S BEST GRADUATE SCHOOLS 35

11 SPECIALTIES METHODOLOGY MEDICAL SCHOOL DEANS AND SENIOR FACULTY SELECT THE BEST PROGRAMS AIDS 1. University of California San Francisco 2. Johns Hopkins University (MD) 3. Harvard University (MA) 4. University of Washington 5. University of Alabama Birmingham 6. Univ. of California San Diego 7. Duke University (NC) 8. University of California Los Angeles (Geffen) 9. Columbia U. College of Physicians and Surgeons (NY) University of North Carolina Chapel Hill DRUG/ALCOHOL ABUSE 1. Johns Hopkins University (MD) Yale University (CT) 3. Harvard University (MA) 4. University of California Los Angeles (Geffen) 5. University of California San Francisco 6. Columbia U. College of Physicians and Surgeons (NY) University of Pennsylvania 8. Univ. of California San Diego 9. Medical University of South Carolina 10. Washington Univ. in St. Louis FAMILY MEDICINE 1. University of Washington 2. University of North Carolina Chapel Hill 3. Univ. of Missouri Columbia Univ. of Wisconsin 5. Oregon Health and Science University 6. Univ. of Michigan 7. University of New Mexico 8. Duke University (NC) 9. East Carolina University (Brody) (NC) 10. University of California San Francisco GERIATRICS 1. University of California Los Angeles (Geffen) 2. Johns Hopkins University (MD) Mount Sinai School of Medicine (NY) 4. Duke University (NC) Harvard University (MA) Univ. of Michigan 7. University of Washington 8. Yale University (CT) 9. University of California San Francisco 10. University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences INTERNAL MEDICINE 1. Johns Hopkins University (MD) 2. Harvard University (MA) University of California San Francisco 4. Duke University (NC) 5. University of Pennsylvania 6. University of Washington 7. Washington Univ. in St. Louis 8. Univ. of Michigan 9. U. of Texas Southwestern Medical Center Dallas Yale University (CT) PEDIATRICS 2. University of Pennsylvania 3. Johns Hopkins University (MD) 4. University of Cincinnati 5. Baylor College of Medicine (TX) 6. Washington Univ. in St. Louis 7. University of Colorado Denver and Health Sciences Center 8. University of California San Francisco 9. University of California Los Angeles (Geffen) 10. University of Washington RURAL MEDICINE 1. University of Washington 2. University of New Mexico 3. East Tennessee State University (Quillen) 4. Oregon Health and Science University University of Iowa (Carver) University of North Carolina Chapel Hill 7. East Carolina University (Brody) (NC) University of Minnesota Medical School 9. University of Nebraska College of Medicine 10. Dartmouth Medical School (NH) University of South Dakota WOMEN S HEALTH 2. University of California San Francisco 3. Johns Hopkins University (MD) 4. University of Pennsylvania 5. University of Pittsburgh 6. University of Washington 7. Univ. of Michigan 8. Univ. of Alabama Birmingham 9. University of North Carolina Chapel Hill 10. Duke University (NC) Washington Univ. in St. Louis The 125 medical schools fully accredited by the Liaison Committee on Medical Education, plus the 19 schools of osteopathic medicine fully accredited by the American Osteopathic Association, were surveyed for the ranking of research medical schools; 126 schools provided the data needed to calculate the research rankings based on the indicators used in the medical school research model. The same medical and osteopathic schools were surveyed for the primary-care ranking; 126 schools provided the data needed to calculate the medical school primary-care ranking. The medical school research model is based on a weighted average of eight indicators, and the primary-care model is based on seven indicators. Four of the indicators are the same for both models. The research model factors in research activity; the primary-care model adds a measure of the proportion of graduates entering primary-care specialties. Quality assessment (weighted by.40): Peer assessment surveys were conducted in the fall of 2005, asking medical and osteopathic school deans, deans of academic affairs, and heads of internal medicine or the directors of admissions to rate program quality on a scale of marginal (1) to outstanding (5). Survey populations were asked to rate program quality for both research and primary-care programs separately on a single survey instrument. The response rate was 54 percent. A research school s average score is weighted by.20; the average score in the primary-care model is weighted by.25. Residency program directors were also asked to rate programs using the same 5- point scale on two separate survey instruments. One survey dealt with research and was sent to a sample of residency program directors in fields outside primary care, including surgery, psychiatry, and radiology. The other survey involved primary care and was sent to residency directors in the fields of family practice, pediatrics, and internal medicine. The response rate for those sent the research survey was 28 percent. The response rate for those sent the primary-care survey was 23 percent. Residency directors opinions are weighted by.20 in the research model and by.15 in primary care. The source for the names for both of the residency directors surveys was the Graduate Medical Education Directory edition, published by the American Medical Association. Research activity (.30 in research model only): Research was measured as the total dollar amount of National Institutes of Health research grants awarded to the medical school and its affiliated hospitals (.20) and the average amount of those grants calculated per full-time medical school science and clinical faculty member (.10); both factors were averaged for fiscal years 2004 and An asterisk indicates schools that reported only NIH research grants to their medical school in Primary-care rate (.30 in primary-care model only): The percentage of medical or osteopathic school graduates entering primary-care residencies in the fields of family practice, pediatrics, and internal medicine was averaged over the 2003, 2004, and 2005 graduating classes. Student selectivity (.20 in research model,.15 in primarycare model): This is determined by three components that describe the medical or osteopathic class entering in fall 2005: mean composite Medical College Admission Test score (65 percent), mean undergraduate grade-point average (30 percent), and the acceptance rate, which is the proportion of total applicants accepted (5 percent). Faculty resources (.10 in research model,.15 in primarycare model): Resources were measured as the ratio of fulltime science and clinical faculty to medical or osteopathic students in Overall rank: Indicators were standardized about their means, and standardized scores were weighted, totaled, and rescaled so that the top school received 100; other schools received their percentage of the top score. Specialty rankings: The rankings are based solely on ratings by medical school deans and senior faculty at peer schools. They each identified up to 10 schools offering the best medical school programs in each specialty area. Those programs receiving the most nominations in the top 10 appear here. 36 USN&WR AMERICA S BEST GRADUATE SCHOOLS

12 Schools of Law THE TOP 100 SCHOOLS 05 School s Peer Assessment undergrad 05 LSAT grads Employed bar Jurisdiction s assessment score by GPA score 05 student/ employed 9 months passage overall bar Overall score lawyers/judges 25th-75th 25th-75th acceptance faculty at after rate in passage score (5.0 highest) (5.0 highest) percentile percentile rate ratio graduation graduation jurisdiction rate 1. Yale University (CT) % % 98.9% 94.2%/NY 75% 2. Stanford University (CA) % % 98.9% 91.8%/CA 61% 3. Harvard University (MA) % % 99.5% 95.9%/NY 75% 4. Columbia University (NY) % % 99.3% 93.9%/NY 75% New York University % % 99.4% 97.1%/NY 75% 6. University of Chicago % % 99.5% 98.7%/IL 85% 7. University of Pennsylvania % % 99.2% 93.2%/NY 75% 8. University of California Berkeley % % 99.8% 83.7%/CA 61% University of Michigan % % 99.1% 95.8%/NY 75% University of Virginia % % 98.9% 91.2%/VA 74% 11. Duke University (NC) % % 100.0% 94.9%/NY 75% 12. Northwestern University (IL) % % 99.1% 97.5%/IL 85% 13. Cornell University (NY) % % 98.4% 92.2%/NY 75% 14. Georgetown University (DC) % % 98.2% 92.5%/NY 75% 15. University of California Los Angeles % % 99.7% 86.0%/CA 61% 16. University of Texas Austin % % 97.6% 91.6%/TX 79% 17. University of Southern California (Gould) % % 99.0% 80.5%/CA 61% Vanderbilt University (TN) % % 97.1% 90.5%/TN 82% 19. George Washington University (DC) % % 98.1% 87.2%/NY 75% University of Minnesota Twin Cities % % 98.6% 99.2%/MN 91% Washington University in St. Louis % % 98.8% 95.9%/MO 88% 22. Boston University % % 99.3% 95.0%/MA 84% University of Iowa % % 98.7% 89.1%/IA 86% University of Notre Dame (IN) % % 98.3% 95.6%/IL 85% Washington and Lee University (VA) % % 91.2% 85.7%/VA 74% 26. Emory University (GA) % % 98.7% 90.3%/GA 85% 27. Boston College % % 97.1% 92.6%/MA 84% College of William and Mary (Marshall-Wythe) (VA) % % 96.2% 84.6%/VA 74% University of Illinois % % 99.5% 89.7%/IL 85% University of North Carolina Chapel Hill % % 90.2% 84.6%/NC 75% University of Washington % % 99.4% 89.4%/WA 79% 32. Fordham University (NY) % % 98.4% 87.4%/NY 75% University of Wisconsin % % 97.3% 100.0%/WI 84% 34. Brigham Young University (Clark) (UT) % % 98.7% 91.4%/UT 90% University of California Davis % % 91.5% 75.7%/CA 61% University of Georgia % % 98.9% 92.6%/GA 85% 37. George Mason University (VA) % % 99.6% 79.6%/VA 74% Indiana University Bloomington % % 95.6% 92.3%/IN 84% 39. Ohio State University (Moritz) % % 96.7% 91.4%/OH 81% Wake Forest University (NC) % % 92.1% 88.2%/NC 75% 41. University of Florida (Levin) % % 96.0% 79.7%/FL 73% 42. University of Maryland % % 97.1% 78.2%/MD 72% 43. American University (Washington College of Law) (DC) % % 97.2% 84.9%/MD 72% Southern Methodist University (TX) % 15.4 N/A 95.9% 87.5%/TX 79% Tulane University 2 (LA) % % 94.7% 69.9%/LA 88% University of Alabama Tuscaloosa % % 97.8% 96.7%/AL 81% University of Arizona (Rogers) % % 92.9% 84.0%/AZ 74% University of California (Hastings) % % 91.7% 80.7%/CA 61% University of Colorado Boulder % % 89.7% 87.0%/CO 74% 50. University of Connecticut % % 96.4% 93.8%/CT 82% 51. Baylor University (TX) % % 97.8% 91.4%/TX 79% Case Western Reserve University (OH) % % 98.1% 87.7%/OH 81% 53. Arizona State University % 11.1 N/A 94.2% 75.3%/AZ 74% Cardozo-Yeshiva University (NY) % % 97.1% 79.8%/NY 75% Florida State University % % 98.9% 77.0%/FL 73% University of Cincinnati % % 96.3% 89.4%/OH 81% 57. University of Utah (S.J. Quinney) % % 90.9% 88.8%/UT 90% 44 USN&WR AMERICA S BEST GRADUATE SCHOOLS

13 THE PROFESSIONAL SCHOOLS EXCLUSIVE RANKINGS 05 School s Peer Assessment undergrad 05 LSAT grads Employed bar Jurisdiction s assessment score by GPA score 05 student/ employed 9 months passage overall bar Overall score lawyers/judges 25th-75th 25th-75th acceptance faculty at after rate in passage score (5.0 highest) (5.0 highest) percentile percentile rate ratio graduation graduation jurisdiction rate 58. Brooklyn Law School (NY) % % 98.4% 83.8%/NY 75% Temple University (Beasley) (PA) % % 95.6% 88.3%/PA 81% 60. Illinois Institute (Chicago-Kent) % % 92.0% 86.5%/IL 85% University of Missouri Columbia % % 92.7% 88.8%/MO 88% University of Pittsburgh % % 96.7% 81.6%/PA 81% University of Tennessee Knoxville % % 85.4% 86.8%/TN 82% Villanova University (PA) % % 97.6% 79.0%/PA 81% 65. Loyola Law School (CA) % % 97.2% 65.5%/CA 61% Rutgers State University Camden (NJ) % % 92.8% 81.4%/NJ 80% University of Kentucky % % 97.6% 82.9%/KY 78% University of Miami (FL) % % 93.1% 82.2%/FL 73% University of San Diego % % 89.0% 70.9%/CA 61% 70. Loyola University Chicago % % 98.3% 91.6%/IL 85% Seton Hall University (NJ) % % 96.9% 82.2%/NJ 80% University of Denver (Sturm) % % 96.9% 64.1%/CO 74% University of Houston % % 95.6% 84.8%/TX 79% University of Kansas % % 88.5% 82.0%/KS 81% University of Nebraska Lincoln % % 91.7% 90.3%/NE 88% University of Oregon % % 91.6% 75.0%/OR 72% 77. Indiana University Indianapolis % % 93.8% 80.0%/IN 84% Lewis and Clark College (Northwestern) (OR) % 14.1 N/A 93.9% 68.3%/OR 72% University of New Mexico % % 93.7% 80.5%/NM 82% 80. DePaul University (IL) % % 94.3% 83.6%/IL 85% Rutgers State University Newark (NJ) % % 94.7% 72.8%/NJ 80% St. John s University (NY) % % 93.4% 86.0%/NY 75% St. Louis University % % 93.1% 85.5%/MO 88% University at Buffalo SUNY % % 95.0% 78.9%/NY 75% University of Oklahoma % % 88.4% 95.7%/OK 83% University of Richmond (VA) % % 92.6% 75.2%/VA 74% 87. Louisiana State University Baton Rouge % % 91.3% 77.8%/LA 88% Mercer University (GA) % % 98.4% 92.7%/GA 85% Northeastern University (MA) % 17.0 N/A 95.3% 81.7%/MA 84% Pennsylvania State University (Dickinson) % % 93.4% 78.2%/PA 81% Pepperdine University (McConnell) (CA) % % 90.5% 74.1%/CA 61% Santa Clara University (CA) % % 94.5% 67.9%/CA 61% 93. Seattle University % % 100.0% 79.6%/WA 79% University of Hawaii (Richardson) % % 93.4% 76.0%/HI 77% University of San Francisco % 16.7 N/A 95.0% 65.5%/CA 61% University of Toledo (OH) % % 92.3% 90.4%/OH 81% 97. Georgia State University % 16.2 N/A 91.8% 92.2%/GA 85% University of Mississippi % % 94.5% 89.8%/MS 90% University of South Carolina % % 95.3% 87.0%/SC 84% University of the Pacific (McGeorge) (CA) % 16.1 N/A 96.1% 68.5%/CA 61% Sources: U.S. News and the schools. Assessment data collected by Synovate. N/A means that the data were not provided by the school. 2 School was unable to complete the survey because of damage from Hurricane Katrina; last year s data were used to calculate its ranking and are displayed here. Western State University in California, Barry University in Florida, Florida A&M University, Florida International University, John Marshall Law School Atlanta, St. Thomas School of Law in Minnesota, and Appalachian School of Law in Virginia are not ranked because as of August 2005 they were provisionally approved by the American Bar Association. Three law schools in Puerto Rico Catholic University, Inter-America University, and the University of Puerto Rico are not ranked. METHODOLOGY The rankings of 180 accredited law schools are based on a weighted average of the 12 measures of quality described here. More on our methods appears on Page 16. Quality assessment (weighted by.40): Quality was measured by two surveys conducted in fall The dean and three faculty members at each school were asked to rate schools from marginal (1) to outstanding (5); 67 percent voted. Their average rating for a school is weighted by.25 in the ranking model. Lawyers and judges also rated schools; 26 percent responded. Their average rating is weighted by.15. Selectivity (.25): For full-time students entering in 2005, this combines median LSAT scores (50 percent), median undergrad GPA (40 percent), and proportion of applicants accepted (10 percent). Placement success (.20): Success is determined by employment rates for 2004 graduates at graduation (20 percent) and nine months after (70 percent) as well as their bar passage rate (10 percent). Employment rates include graduates reported as working or pursuing graduate degrees; for the nine-month rate only, 25 percent of those whose status is unknown are also counted as working. Those not seeking jobs are excluded. The bar passage rate indicator is the ratio of a school s rate in the cited jurisdiction to the overall state rate, computed for first-time test takers in summer 2004 and winter The jurisdiction cited is the state where the largest number of 2004 grads first took the test. Faculty resources (.15): Resources are based on average 2004 and 2005 expenditures per student for instruction, library, and supporting services (65 percent) and on all other items including financial aid (10 percent); 2005 student/teacher ratio (20 percent); and total number of volumes and titles in library (5 percent). Overall rank: A school s score on each indicator was standardized. Then scores were weighted, totaled, and rescaled so that the top school received 100 and other schools received a percentage of the top score. Specialty rankings: Rankings are based solely on votes by law faculty who are listed in the AALS Directory of Law Teachers as teaching in the field or by directors of clinical and legal writing programs. They named up to 15 of the best in each field. Schools receiving the most votes are listed. USN&WR AMERICA S BEST GRADUATE SCHOOLS 45

14 SPECIALTIES PROGRAMS RANKED BEST BY FACULTY WHO TEACH IN THE FIELD DISPUTE RESOLUTION 1. Pepperdine University (McConnell) (CA) 2. University of Missouri Columbia 3. Ohio State University (Moritz) 4. Harvard University (MA) 5. Hamline University (MN) 6. Cardozo-Yeshiva University (NY) 7. Georgetown University (DC) 8. Willamette University (Collins) (OR) 9. Pennsylvania State University (Dickinson) Stanford University (CA) CLINICAL TRAINING 1. Georgetown University (DC) 2. American University (Washington Col. of Law) (DC) 3. New York University 4. Washington Univ. in St. Louis 5. CUNY Queens College University of Maryland 7. University of New Mexico 8. Yale University (CT) 9. Northwestern University (IL) 10. Univ. of Michigan ENVIRONMENTAL LAW 1. Lewis and Clark College (Northwestern) (OR) 2. Vermont Law School 3. Pace University (NY) 4. University of Maryland 5. Georgetown University (DC) 6. University of Oregon 7. Tulane University (LA) 8. Duke University (NC) 9. University of Colorado Boulder 10. Stanford University (CA) HEALTH LAW 1. St. Louis University 2. University of Houston 3. University of Maryland 4. Seton Hall University (NJ) 5. Boston University Case Western Reserve University (OH) 7. Loyola University Chicago 8. Indiana University Indianapolis Widener University (DE) 10. DePaul University (IL) Univ. of Minnesota Twin Cities INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAW 1. University of California Berkeley 2. Stanford University (CA) 3. George Washington Univ. (DC) 4. Santa Clara University (CA) 5. University of Houston 6. Cardozo-Yeshiva Univ. (NY) 7. Duke University (NC) Franklin Pierce Law Center (NH) 9. Illinois Institute of Technology (Chicago-Kent) 10. Columbia University (NY) INTERNATIONAL LAW 1. New York University 2. Columbia University (NY) 3. Harvard University (MA) 4. Georgetown University (DC) 5. Yale University (CT) 6. George Washington Univ. (DC) 7. American University (Washington Col. of Law) (DC) 8. Univ. of Michigan 9. University of California Berkeley University of Virginia LEGAL WRITING 1. Seattle University 2. Mercer University (GA) 3. Temple Univ. (Beasley) (PA) 4. Stetson University (FL) 5. John Marshall Law School (IL) Northwestern University (IL) 7. University of Nevada Las Vegas (Boyd) 8. Univ. of Michigan 9. Brooklyn Law School (NY) 10. Boston College Illinois Institute of Technology (Chicago-Kent) Villanova University (PA) TRIAL ADVOCACY 1. Stetson University (FL) 2. Temple University (Beasley) (PA) 3. South Texas College of Law 4. Loyola Law School (CA) University of Notre Dame (IN) 6. Baylor University (TX) 7. Georgetown University (DC) Northwestern University (IL) University of Akron (OH) Washington University in St. Louis TAX LAW 1. New York University 2. University of Florida (Levin) 3. Georgetown University (DC) 4. Northwestern University (IL) 5. Harvard University (MA) University of Miami (FL) 7. Boston University University of California Los Angeles 9. Stanford University (CA) University of San Diego Other Schools to Consider The next two quartiles of schools are listed alphabetically in two groups, the Third Tier and Fourth Tier. Law schools within each of these tiers should be considered broadly similar in quality. To be listed, a law school must be accredited and fully approved by the American Bar Association and must draw most of its students from the United States. Remember that in considering a law school you should look not only at its ranking or tier but also at other characteristics its location, price, course offerings, and faculty expertise, to name a few. More information on all the schools is available in the directory (Page 73). THIRD TIER (ranking begins at 101; schools are listed alphabetically) 05 School s Peer Assessment undergrad 05 LSAT grads Employed bar Jurisdiction s assessment score by GPA score 05 student/ employed 9 months passage overall bar score lawyers/judges 25th-75th 25th-75th acceptance faculty at after rate in passage (5.0 highest) (5.0 highest) percentile percentile rate ratio graduation graduation jurisdiction rate Albany Law School-Union University (NY) % % 95.8% 77.5%/NY 75% Catholic University of America (Columbus) (DC) % % 90.1% 71.9%/MD 72% Cleveland State University (Cleveland-Marshall) % % 90.8% 72.9%/OH 81% Creighton University (NE) % % 97.6% 84.3%/NE 88% Drake University (IA) % 17.8 N/A 95.1% 86.0%/IA 86% Duquesne University (PA) % % 86.4% 80.0%/PA 81% Gonzaga University (WA) % 18.0 N/A 93.3% 75.9%/WA 79% Hofstra University (NY) % 17.7 N/A 91.8% 68.6%/NY 75% Howard University (DC) % % 86.1% 52.1%/MD 72% Loyola University New Orleans % % 98.6% 60.1%/LA 88% Marquette University (WI) % % 94.0% 100.0%/WI 84% New York Law School % 20.3 N/A 90.0% 64.3%/NY 75% Northern Illinois University % % 89.9% 86.4%/IL 85% Pace University (NY) % 15.4 N/A 89.6% 73.1%/NY 75% Quinnipiac University (CT) % 14.5 N/A 92.2% 73.9%/CT 82% Samford University (Cumberland) (AL) % % 97.0% 84.7%/AL 81% Southern Illinois University Carbondale % 12.6 N/A 82.3% 83.3%/IL 85% 46 USN&WR AMERICA S BEST GRADUATE SCHOOLS

15 THE PROFESSIONAL SCHOOLS EXCLUSIVE RANKINGS 05 School s Peer Assessment undergrad 05 LSAT grads Employed bar Jurisdiction s assessment score by GPA score 05 student/ employed 9 months passage overall bar score lawyers/judges 25th-75th 25th-75th acceptance faculty at after rate in passage (5.0 highest) (5.0 highest) percentile percentile rate ratio graduation graduation jurisdiction rate Southwestern University School of Law (CA) % % 91.4% 58.4%/CA 61% Stetson University (FL) % % 91.1% 74.3%/FL 73% Syracuse University (NY) % % 92.7% 76.0%/NY 75% Texas Tech University % % 95.9% 85.1%/TX 79% University of Akron (OH) % % 89.2% 78.7%/OH 81% University of Arkansas Fayetteville % 13.2 N/A 91.7% 85.1%/AR 82% University of Arkansas Little Rock (Bowen) % 16.9 N/A 96.2% 76.9%/AR 82% University of Idaho % % 88.3% 76.0%/ID 76% University of Louisville (Brandeis) (KY) % % 91.0% 79.2%/KY 78% University of Maine % 15.5 N/A 90.1% 69.0%/ME 75% University of Memphis (Humphreys) % % 96.5% 85.8%/TN 82% University of Missouri Kansas City % 20.4 N/A 88.1% 85.0%/MO 88% University of Montana % 18.2 N/A 89.1% 85.5%/MT 83% University of Nevada Las Vegas (Boyd) % % 82.5% 65.2%/NV 73% University of North Dakota % 19.0 N/A 88.3% 83.7%/ND 82% Vermont Law School % 13.3 N/A 94.2% 73.9%/VT 85% Washburn University (KS) % 14.4 N/A 92.3% 71.4%/KS 81% Wayne State University (MI) % 19.6 N/A 84.1% 83.5%/MI 74% Willamette University (Collins) (OR) % 15.6 N/A 84.5% 82.9%/OR 72% FOURTH TIER (ranking begins at 137; schools are listed alphabetically) 05 School s Peer Assessment undergrad 05 LSAT grads Employed bar Jurisdiction s assessment score by GPA score 05 student/ employed 9 months passage overall bar score lawyers/judges 25th-75th 25th-75th acceptance faculty at after rate in passage (5.0 highest) (5.0 highest) percentile percentile rate ratio graduation graduation jurisdiction rate Ave Maria School of Law (MI) % % 84.9% 100.0%/MI 74% California Western School of Law % 18.7 N/A 42.7% 58.1%/CA 61% Campbell University (Wiggins) (NC) % % 84.4% 77.6%/NC 75% Capital University (OH) % 16.3 N/A 88.0% 74.7%/OH 81% Chapman University (CA) % % 91.0% 66.7%/CA 61% CUNY Queens College % % 73.9% 63.9%/NY 75% Florida Coastal School of Law % 17.8 N/A 92.1% 71.2%/FL 73% Franklin Pierce Law Center (NH) % 18.5 N/A 86.4% 61.5%/NH 64% Golden Gate University (CA) % 22.4 N/A 67.9% 34.8%/CA 61% Hamline University (MN) % % 81.0% 85.6%/MN 91% John Marshall Law School (IL) % % 89.3% 74.2%/IL 85% Michigan State University % 20.7 N/A 78.7% 67.6%/MI 74% Mississippi College % % 95.8% 83.7%/MS 90% New England School of Law (MA) % % 81.1% 74.1%/MA 84% North Carolina Central University % 18.8 N/A 83.0% 71.8%/NC 75% Northern Kentucky University (Chase) % % 91.8% 79.4%/KY 78% Nova Southeastern University (Broad) (FL) % 13.4 N/A 77.1% 61.6%/FL 73% Ohio Northern University (Pettit) % 14.8 N/A 86.1% 71.9%/OH 81% Oklahoma City University % 18.6 N/A 76.8% 71.8%/OK 83% Regent University (VA) % % 89.1% 61.0%/VA 74% Roger Williams University (Papitto) (RI) % 19.9 N/A 69.3% 70.7%/RI 77% Southern University 1 (LA) * * 22.0% * 13.3 * N/A 89.5% * 34.0%/LA * 88% South Texas College of Law % 19.7 N/A 80.1% 69.9%/TX 79% St. Mary s University (TX) % 23.5 N/A 85.7% 78.9%/TX 79% St. Thomas University (FL) % 20.2 N/A 58.1% 61.5%/FL 73% Suffolk University (MA) % % 86.7% 79.5%/MA 84% Texas Southern University (Marshall) % % 75.2% 54.5%/TX 79% Texas Wesleyan University % % 82.9% 65.5%/TX 79% Thomas Jefferson School of Law (CA) % 21.9 N/A 82.9% 35.6%/CA 61% Thomas M. Cooley Law School (MI) % 23.6 N/A 71.2% 55.1%/MI 74% Touro College (Fuchsberg) (NY) % 17.4 N/A 65.7% 65.2%/NY 75% University of Baltimore % 21.9 N/A 84.7% 56.8%/MD 72% University of Dayton (OH) % 15.4 N/A 85.8% 75.3%/OH 81% University of Detroit Mercy % 17.8 N/A 89.9% 69.2%/MI 74% University of South Dakota % % 75.0% 69.4%/SD 74% University of the District of Columbia (Clarke) % 11.5 N/A 77.6% 36.4%/MD 72% University of Tulsa (OK) % % 87.4% 74.7%/OK 83% University of Wyoming % 17.2 N/A 82.5% 70.3%/WY 68% Valparaiso University (IN) % % 80.6% 82.9%/IN 84% Western New England College (MA) % % 79.5% 68.3%/CT 82% West Virginia University % 23.2 N/A 79.3% 80.2%/WV 78% Whittier Law School (CA) % % 91.4% 39.9%/CA 61% Widener University (DE) % % 87.2% 71.9%/PA 81% William Mitchell College of Law (MN) % % 84.0% 89.1%/MN 91% 1 School did not return its U.S. News statistical survey. 2 School was unable to complete the survey because of damage from Hurricane Katrina; last year s data were used to calculate its ranking and are displayed here. Note: Numbers with * are from the fall 2004 entering class or school year and the 2003 graduating class as reported to the American Bar Association. USN&WR AMERICA S BEST GRADUATE SCHOOLS 47

16 Law School Diversity To identify law schools where students are most likely to encounter classmates from different racial or ethnic groups, U.S. News has created a diversity index based on the total proportion of minority students not including international students and the mix of racial and ethnic groups on campus. The index is calculated using demographic data reflecting each law school s student body during the academic year, including both full- and part-time students. The groups that form the basis for our calculations are African-Americans, Asian-Americans, Hispanics, American Indians, and non-hispanic whites. Our formula produces a diversity index that ranges from 0.0 to 1.0. The closer a school s number is to 1.0, the more diverse is the student population. Law schools that enroll a large proportion of students from one ethnic group, even if it is a minority group, don t score high in this index. To be included in the table, a law school must be accredited by the American Bar Association. Because student-body ethnic diversity data are not consistently compiled and reported as yet for other types of graduate schools, U.S. News has prepared a diversity table for law schools only. THE MOST DIVERSE SCHOOLS Diversity index Largest minority School (1.0 highest) and its proportion Texas Southern University (Marshall) 0.66 African-American, 50% Florida A&M University 0.65 African-American, 41% University of the District of Columbia (Clarke) 0.63 African-American, 33% Florida International University 0.61 Hispanic, 41% Rutgers State University Newark (NJ) 0.59 African-American, 14% Santa Clara University (CA) 0.58 Asian-American, 27% University of New Mexico 0.58 Hispanic, 24% North Carolina Central University 0.57 African-American, 46% Loyola Law School (CA) 0.56 Asian-American, 25% St. Thomas University (FL) 0.56 Hispanic, 28% University of Southern California (Gould) 0.56 Asian-American, 20% Whittier Law School (CA) 0.54 Asian-American, 19% CUNY Queens College 0.53 Asian-American, 15% Southwestern University School of Law (CA) 0.53 Asian-American, 20% University of California Davis 0.53 Asian-American, 24% University of Hawaii (Richardson) 0.53 Asian-American, 57% Stanford University (CA) 0.52 Hispanic, 13% University of California Berkeley 0.52 Asian-American, 19% University of Illinois 0.52 Asian-American, 18% American University (Washington Col. of Law) (DC) 0.51 Asian-American, 12% Columbia University (NY) 0.51 Asian-American, 16% Yale University (CT) 0.51 Asian-American, 14% University of California (Hastings) 0.50 Asian-American, 24% University of Chicago 0.50 Asian-American, 13% University of San Francisco 0.50 Asian-American, 19% Cornell University (NY) 0.49 Asian-American, 18% Northwestern University (IL) 0.49 Asian-American, 16% University of Arizona (Rogers) 0.49 Hispanic, 11% University of Pennsylvania 0.49 Asian-American, 15% University of Texas Austin 0.49 Hispanic, 19% Harvard University (MA) 0.48 Asian-American, 13% University of California Los Angeles 0.48 Asian-American, 16% University of Maryland 0.48 African-American, 15% Northeastern University (MA) 0.47 Asian-American, 12% Nova Southeastern University (Broad) (FL) 0.45 Hispanic, 20% St. Mary s University (TX) 0.45 Hispanic, 21% Diversity index Largest minority School (1.0 highest) and its proportion University of Michigan 0.45 Asian-American, 11% University of San Diego 0.45 Asian-American, 15% Arizona State University 0.44 Hispanic, 15% California Western School of Law 0.44 Asian-American, 13% Emory University (GA) 0.44 African-American, 10% George Washington University (DC) 0.44 Asian-American, 10% Chapman University (CA) 0.42 Asian-American, 18% Fordham University (NY) 0.42 Asian-American, 11% New York University 0.42 Asian-American, 11% St. John s University (NY) 0.42 Asian-American, 10% Touro College (Fuchsberg) (NY) 0.42 African-American, 9% University of Houston 0.42 Asian-American, 12% University of Wisconsin 0.42 African-American, 8% Brooklyn Law School (NY) 0.41 Asian-American, 15% Georgetown University (DC) 0.41 Asian-American, 10% Golden Gate University (CA) 0.41 Asian-American, 16% Seattle University 0.41 Asian-American, 14% Temple University (Beasley) (PA) 0.40 Asian-American, 12% Thomas M. Cooley Law School (MI) 0.40 African-American, 12% University of Miami (FL) 0.40 Hispanic, 12% University of Nevada Las Vegas (Boyd) 0.40 Asian-American, 12% Duke University (NC) 0.39 African-American, 11% Ohio State University (Moritz) 0.39 Asian-American, 10% University of Florida (Levin) 0.39 Hispanic, 11% University of Notre Dame (IN) 0.39 Asian-American, 8% Northern Illinois University 0.38 African-American, 8% Pennsylvania State University (Dickinson) 0.38 African-American, 7% University of Arkansas Fayetteville 0.38 African-American, 16% Boston College 0.37 Asian-American, 11% Boston University 0.37 Asian-American, 15% Illinois Institute (Chicago-Kent) 0.37 Asian-American, 10% Rutgers State University Camden (NJ) 0.37 Asian-American, 8% University of Colorado Boulder 0.37 Asian-American, 9% University of North Carolina Chapel Hill 0.37 African-American, 10% University of Oklahoma 0.37 Native American, 10% University of the Pacific (McGeorge) (CA) 0.37 Asian-American, 13% Note: The diversity index is based on ethnicity data collected by U.S. News from each law school. The methodology used to compute the index was published in a 1992 article by Philip Meyer and Shawn McIntosh in the International Journal of Public Opinion Research. For this index, students classified as ethnicity unknown/unreported were counted as white. A more detailed explanation of the methodology is available at 48 USN&WR AMERICA S BEST GRADUATE SCHOOLS

17 EXCLUSIVE RANKINGS Library and Information Studies THE TOP SCHOOLS Our ranking is based on a 2005 survey of deans, program directors, and senior faculty members at 50 schools with accredited master s programs. SPECIALTIES The institutions below received the most nominations from survey respondents at peer institutions for their excellence in a given specialty. Average assessment 1. University of Illinois 4.5 University of North Carolina Chapel Hill Syracuse University (NY) University of Washington University of Michigan Rutgers State University New Brunswick (NJ) Indiana University Bloomington 3.8 University of Pittsburgh 3.8 University of Texas Austin Florida State University Drexel University (PA) 3.6 University of Wisconsin 3.6 THOMPSON MCCLELLAN ARCHIVES AND PRESERVATION 1. University of Texas Austin 2. Univ. of Maryland College Park University of Michigan 4. University of Pittsburgh 5. Univ. of California Los Angeles 6. Simmons College (MA) 7. UNC Chapel Hill 8. University of Wisconsin 9. SUNY Albany DIGITAL LIBRARIANSHIP 1. U. of Illinois 2. Syracuse University (NY) 3. University of Michigan 4. UNC Chapel Hill 5. University of Washington 6. Drexel University (PA) Rutgers St. U. New Brunswick (NJ) 8. Indiana University Bloomington 9. Univ. of California Los Angeles 10. University of Pittsburgh HEALTH LIBRARIANSHIP 1. University of Pittsburgh 2. UNC Chapel Hill 3. University of North Texas University of Washington 5. Texas Woman s University Univ. of Maryland College Park 7. University of Missouri Columbia 8. Syracuse University (NY) U. of Illinois Univ. of South Carolina Columbia INFORMATION SYSTEMS 1. Syracuse University (NY) 2. University of Michigan 3. University of Washington 4. U. of Illinois 5. Drexel University (PA) University of Pittsburgh 7. UNC Chapel Hill 8. Indiana University Bloomington Rutgers St. U. New Brunswick (NJ) 10. Florida State University LAW LIBRARIANSHIP 1. University of Washington 2. Catholic Univ. of America (DC) 3. University of Texas Austin 4. Indiana University Bloomington 5. U. of Illinois UNC Chapel Hill SCHOOL LIBRARY MEDIA 1. Rutgers St. U. New Brunswick (NJ) 2. Univ. of South Carolina Columbia 3. Univ. of Maryland College Park 4. Syracuse University (NY) 5. Florida State University 6. San Jose State University (CA) University of Washington 8. Indiana University Bloomington 9. University of Hawaii Manoa University of Pittsburgh SERVICES FOR CHILDREN AND YOUTH 1. Florida State University U. of Illinois 3. Rutgers St. U. New Brunswick (NJ) 4. University of Pittsburgh 5. Univ. of California Los Angeles Univ. of Maryland College Park University of Wisconsin 8. UNC Chapel Hill 9. University of Washington 10. Simmons College (MA) Studying library science at the Univ. of Illinois Methodology: The library and information studies program rankings are based solely on the results of a peer assessment survey. Respondents were asked to rate the academic quality of programs on a scale of 1 (marginal) to 5 (outstanding). Scores for each school were totaled and divided by the number of respondents who rated that school. The response rate was 51 percent. Surveys were conducted by Synovate in the fall of Note: Lists of schools consist of those master s programs accredited by the American Library Association. The survey was sent to the dean of the program, the program director, and a senior faculty member in each of these programs. USN&WR AMERICA S BEST GRADUATE SCHOOLS 51

18 The Sciences PH.D. PROGRAMS RANKED BEST BY DEANS AND DEPARTMENT CHAIRS Ranked in 2006 BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES Programs surveyed are drawn from the National Science Foundation s Science and Engineering Doctorate Awards for 1999 through Listed schools may have multiple programs. Methodology is on Page 60. Average assessment 1. Stanford University (CA) Harvard University (MA) 4.8 Massachusetts Institute 4.8 University of California Berkeley California Institute 4.6 Johns Hopkins University (MD) Cornell University (NY) 4.5 Yale University (CT) Princeton University (NJ) 4.4 University of California San Francisco 4.4 Washington University in St. Louis Duke University (NC) 4.3 Rockefeller University (NY) 4.3 University of California San Diego 4.3 University of Michigan 4.3 University of Wisconsin University of California Davis 4.2 University of Washington Columbia University (NY) 4.1 University of Chicago 4.1 University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center Dallas Baylor College of Medicine (TX) 4.0 University of California Los Angeles University of Illinois 3.9 University of North Carolina Chapel Hill 3.9 University of Pennsylvania 3.9 University of Texas Austin Cornell University (Weill) (NY) 3.8 Northwestern University (IL) 3.8 University of Colorado Boulder 3.8 Vanderbilt University (TN) Brandeis University (MA) 3.7 Emory University (GA) 3.7 Indiana University Bloomington 3.7 University of California Irvine Carnegie Mellon University (PA) 3.6 Mayo Medical School (MN) 3.6 University of Arizona 3.6 University of Minnesota Twin Cities Brown University (RI) 3.5 Case Western Reserve University (OH) 3.5 Dartmouth College (NH) 3.5 Pennsylvania State University University Park 3.5 Purdue University West Lafayette (IN) 3.5 Rutgers State University New Brunswick (NJ) 3.5 SUNY Stony Brook 3.5 University of California Santa Barbara 3.5 University of Georgia 3.5 University of Virginia 3.5 Yeshiva University (Albert Einstein) (NY) Michigan State University 3.4 Average assessment Ohio State University 3.4 Rice University (TX) 3.4 University of Maryland College Park 3.4 University of Massachusetts Medical Center Worcester Arizona State University 3.3 OGI School of Sci. & Engineering Oregon Health & Sci. U. 3.3 University of Alabama Birmingham 3.3 University of Colorado Denver and Health Sciences Center 3.3 University of Florida 3.3 University of Iowa 3.3 University of Massachusetts Amherst 3.3 University of Oregon 3.3 University of Pittsburgh 3.3 University of Rochester (NY) 3.3 University of Texas Health Science Center Houston 3.3 University of Utah 3.3 BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES SPECIALTIES BIOCHEMISTRY/BIOPHYSICS/ STRUCTURAL BIOLOGY Stanford University (CA) 3. Massachusetts Inst. of Tech. University of California Berkeley 5. Univ. of Calif. San Francisco 6. California Inst. 7. Yale University (CT) 8. Johns Hopkins University (MD) 9. Rockefeller University (NY) 10. Univ. of Texas Southwestern Medical Center Dallas CELL BIOLOGY 2. Univ. of California San Francisco 3. Stanford University (CA) 4. Massachusetts Inst. of Tech. 5. Rockefeller University (NY) University of California Berkeley 7. Johns Hopkins University (MD) Yale University (CT) 9. Washington Univ. in St. Louis 10. Univ. of California San Diego ECOLOGY/EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY 1. University of California Davis 2. University of California Berkeley 3. Harvard University (MA) 4. University of Chicago 5. Duke University (NC) 6. Cornell University (NY) Univ. of Michigan 8. Indiana University Bloomington Princeton University (NJ) University of Georgia University of Texas Austin Univ. of Wisconsin GENETICS/GENOMICS/ BIOINFORMATICS 2. Massachusetts Inst. of Tech. Stanford University (CA) 4. California Inst. 5. Univ. of Calif. San Francisco 6. University of California Berkeley Univ. of California San Diego Washington Univ. in St. Louis 9. Johns Hopkins University (MD) 10. Yale University (CT) IMMUNOLOGY/INFECTIOUS DISEASE 2. Stanford University (CA) Yale University (CT) 4. Johns Hopkins University (MD) 5. Univ. of Calif. San Francisco Washington Univ. in St. Louis 7. University of California Berkeley Univ. of California Los Angeles MICROBIOLOGY 1. Stanford University (CA) 2. Harvard University (MA) 3. Univ. of Wisconsin 4. University of California Berkeley 5. Yale University (CT) 6. Washington Univ. in St. Louis 7. University of Illinois 8. Johns Hopkins University (MD) University of Georgia University of Washington 56 USN&WR AMERICA S BEST GRADUATE SCHOOLS

19 THE ARTS & SCIENCES PROGRAMS EXCLUSIVE RANKINGS MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 2. Stanford University (CA) 3. Univ. of Calif. San Francisco 4. Massachusetts Inst. of Tech. 5. Univ. of California Berkeley 6. California Inst. 7. Johns Hopkins University (MD) 8. Rockefeller University (NY) Washington Univ. in St. Louis 10. Yale University (CT) CHEMISTRY Ranked in 2006 Average assessment 1. Massachusetts Institute 5.0 University of California Berkeley California Institute 4.9 Harvard University (MA) 4.9 Stanford University (CA) University of Illinois Columbia University (NY) 4.4 University of Wisconsin Cornell University (NY) 4.3 Northwestern University (IL) 4.3 University of Texas Austin University of California Los Angeles 4.2 Yale University (CT) Princeton University (NJ) 4.1 University of Chicago 4.1 University of North Carolina Chapel Hill University of Michigan Texas A&M University College Station 3.9 University of California Irvine 3.9 University of California San Diego 3.9 University of Pennsylvania Pennsylvania State University University Park 3.8 Purdue University West Lafayette (IN) Georgia Institute 3.7 Indiana University Bloomington 3.7 Johns Hopkins University (MD) 3.7 Ohio State University 3.7 University of Colorado Boulder 3.7 University of Minnesota Twin Cities 3.7 University of Washington Rice University (TX) 3.6 University of California San Francisco 3.6 University of California Santa Barbara University of California Davis 3.5 University of Florida 3.5 University of Pittsburgh 3.5 University of Utah Duke University (NC) 3.4 Emory University (GA) 3.4 Iowa State University 3.4 University of Arizona Michigan State University 3.3 University of Virginia 3.3 Washington University in St. Louis Colorado State University 3.2 Florida State University 3.2 University of Maryland College Park 3.2 University of Southern California 3.2 NEUROSCIENCE/NEUROBIOLOGY 2. Stanford University (CA) Univ. of California San Diego 4. Rockefeller University (NY) 5. Johns Hopkins University (MD) 6. Univ. of Calif. San Francisco Yale University (CT) 8. Columbia University (NY) 9. California Inst. Massachusetts Inst. of Tech. ANALYTICAL 1. University of North Carolina Chapel Hill 2. Purdue University West Lafayette (IN) 3. University of Illinois 4. University of Arizona Univ. of Wisconsin 6. Indiana University Bloomington 7. University of Texas Austin 8. Univ. of Michigan 9. Iowa State University 10. University of Washington BIOCHEMISTRY 2. University of California Berkeley 3. Univ. of Calif. San Francisco 4. California Inst. 5. Massachusetts Institute 6. Univ. of Wisconsin 7. Stanford University (CA) Univ. of California San Diego 9. Univ. of California Los Angeles 10. Johns Hopkins University (MD) Yale University (CT) INORGANIC 1. Massachusetts Institute 2. California Inst. 3. University of California Berkeley 4. Northwestern University (IL) 5. University of Illinois 6. Texas A&M U. College Station 7. Stanford University (CA) 8. Univ. of Wisconsin 9. Harvard University (MA) Univ. of Minnesota Twin Cities University of North Carolina Chapel Hill CHEMISTRY SPECIALTIES COMPUTER SCIENCE ORGANIC 2. University of California Berkeley 3. California Inst. 4. Stanford University (CA) 5. Massachusetts Institute 6. Columbia University (NY) 7. University of Illinois 8. University of Wisconsin 9. University of California Irvine 10. University of Texas Austin PHYSICAL 1. University of California Berkeley 2. California Inst. 3. Massachusetts Institute 4. Stanford University (CA) 5. Harvard University (MA) 6. University of Chicago 7. University of Illinois 8. Univ. of Wisconsin 9. University of Colorado Boulder 10. Columbia University (NY) THEORETICAL 1. University of California Berkeley 2. California Inst. 3. Columbia University (NY) 4. Harvard University (MA) 5. Massachusetts Institute Northwestern University (IL) 7. Stanford University (CA) University of Chicago 9. University of Wisconsin 10. University of Illinois University of Texas Austin Ranked in 2006 Average assessment 1. Carnegie Mellon University (PA) 5.0 Massachusetts Institute 5.0 Stanford University (CA) 5.0 University of California Berkeley Cornell University (NY) 4.6 University of Illinois University of Washington Princeton University (NJ) University of Texas Austin 4.3 University of Wisconsin California Institute 4.2 Georgia Institute 4.2 Continued on Page 58 USN&WR AMERICA S BEST GRADUATE SCHOOLS 57

20 Average assessment 13. University of California San Diego 4.0 University of Maryland College Park Harvard University (MA) 3.9 University of California Los Angeles 3.9 University of Michigan Columbia University (NY) 3.8 Purdue University West Lafayette (IN) 3.8 University of Pennsylvania 3.8 Yale University (CT) Brown University (RI) 3.7 Rice University (TX) 3.7 University of North Carolina Chapel Hill Duke University (NC) 3.6 University of Massachusetts Amherst 3.6 University of Southern California Johns Hopkins University (MD) New York University 3.4 Rutgers State University New Brunswick (NJ) 3.4 University of California Irvine 3.4 University of Virginia Pennsylvania State University University Park 3.3 COMPUTER SCIENCE SPECIALTIES ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE 1. Massachusetts Inst. of Tech. 2. Stanford University (CA) 3. Carnegie Mellon University (PA) 4. University of California Berkeley 5. University of Washington 6. University of Texas Austin 7. University of Pennsylvania 8. University of Illinois 9. Univ. of Maryland College Park 10. Cornell University (NY) PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE 1. Carnegie Mellon University (PA) 2. Stanford University (CA) University of California Berkeley 4. Massachusetts Inst. of Tech. 5. Cornell University (NY) 6. University of Washington 7. Princeton University (NJ) 8. Rice University (TX) University of Illinois 10. Univ. of Wisconsin COMPUTER SCIENCE SYSTEMS 1. University of California Berkeley 2. Massachusetts Inst. of Tech. 3. Carnegie Mellon University (PA) 4. Stanford University (CA) 5. University of Illinois 6. University of Washington 7. Univ. of Wisconsin 8. University of Texas Austin 9. University of California San Diego 10. Princeton University (NJ) THEORY 1. Massachusetts Inst. of Tech. 2. Stanford University (CA) 3. University of California Berkeley 4. Cornell University (NY) 5. Princeton University (NJ) 6. Carnegie Mellon University (PA) 7. Harvard University (MA) 8. Columbia University (NY) 9. Georgia Institute 10. University of Washington Ranked in 2006 Average assessment 1. California Institute Massachusetts Institute 4.8 Stanford University (CA) University of California Berkeley Columbia University (NY) 4.4 University of Michigan Pennsylvania State University University Park University of Arizona Harvard University (MA) 4.1 University of Texas Austin Princeton University (NJ) 4.0 University of California Los Angeles 4.0 University of Washington 4.0 Yale University (CT) Cornell University (NY) 3.9 University of California San Diego 3.9 University of Chicago 3.9 University of Wisconsin Brown University (RI) 3.8 University of California Santa Cruz Johns Hopkins University (MD) 3.7 University of California Davis 3.7 University of California Santa Barbara 3.7 University of Minnesota Twin Cities Rice University (TX) 3.6 University of Colorado Boulder 3.6 Washington University in St. Louis 3.6 EARTH SCIENCES SPECIALTIES GEOCHEMISTRY 1. California Institute 2. Pennsylvania State University University Park 3. University of California Berkeley 4. Massachusetts Institute 5. Univ. of Michigan 6. Columbia University (NY) 7. Yale University (CT) 8. Harvard University (MA) 9. Stanford University (CA) 10. University of Maryland College Park GEOLOGY 1. Stanford University (CA) 2. Massachusetts Institute 3. California Institute Pennsylvania State University University Park 5. Univ. of Michigan University of Texas Austin 7. University of Arizona 8. University of California Berkeley 9. Univ. of Wisconsin EARTH SCIENCES 10. University of Washington GEOPHYSICS AND SEISMOLOGY 1. California Institute 2. Massachusetts Institute 3. Stanford University (CA) 4. University of California Berkeley 5. University of California San Diego 6. Columbia University (NY) 7. Harvard University (MA) 8. University of Texas Austin 9. Princeton University (NJ) 10. Colorado School of Mines Univ. of California Los Angeles PALEONTOLOGY 1. University of Chicago 2. Harvard University (MA) 3. Univ. of Michigan Yale University (CT) 5. University of California Berkeley 6. University of Kansas 7. University of Cincinnati 8. University of Iowa 9. University of Texas Austin 10. Ohio State University 58 USN&WR AMERICA S BEST GRADUATE SCHOOLS