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"Best Graduate Schools"

As noted on page one, here are the placements of six of Penn's schools and five of its departments in the U.S. News & World Report rankings just released. In these tables gleaned by University Relations, a number in the heading indicates how many schools were rated, and a number in parentheses indicates the school or department's prior U.S. News ranking .

Schools of Business-300

    1. Harvard University (2)
    Stanford University (1)
    3. Columbia University (7)
    MIT (4)
    University of Pennsylvania (3)
     

Schools of Law-174

    1. Yale University (1)
    2. Harvard University (2)
    Stanford University (3)
    4. Columbia University (5)
    University of Chicago (4)
    6. New York University (6)
    7. University of California, Berkeley (9)
    8. University of Michigan (7)
    University of Pennsylvania (11)
    University of Virginia (8)
     

Schools of Medicine-125

    1. Harvard University (1)
    2. Johns Hopkins University (2)
    3. Washington University (5)
    4. Duke University (3)
    University of Pennsylvania (7)
    Yale University (6)
     

Schools of Engineering-219

    1. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1)
    2. Stanford University (2)
    University of California, Berkeley
    4. Carnegie Mellon University
    Georgia Institute of Technology (7)
    University of Illinois (6)
    University of Michigan
    32.Duke University
    University of Florida
    University of Pennsylvania (33)

Schools of Education-191

    1. Teachers College, Columbia (1)
    2. University of California, Berkeley (3)
    3. Harvard University (4)
    4. Stanford University (2)
    5. University of California,
    Los Angeles (5)
    6. University of Michigan (8)
    7. Vanderbilt University (10)
    8. University of Illinois (11)
    University of Wisconsin (6)
    10.University of Pennsylvania (18)
     

Schools of Nursing- 117

    1. University of Washington
    2. University of California, San Francisco
    University of Pennsylvania (3)
    4. University of Michigan
    5. Case Western Reserve University
    Liberal Arts Ph.D. Programs
     

Economics

    1. Harvard University
    Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Stanford University
    9. University of Pennsylvania
     

English

    1. University of California, Berkeley
    11.Johns Hopkins University
    University of California, Los Angeles
    University of Pennsylvania
     

History

    1. Princeton University
    University of California, Berkeley
    12.Cornell University
    University of Pennsylvania

Psychology

    1. Stanford University
    9. Princeton University
    University of Minnesota
    University of Pennsylvania
     

Sociology

    1. University of Wisconsin, Madison
    12. University of Pennsylvania

Return to:Almanac, University of Pennsylvania, February 24, 1998, Volume 44, Number 23