Graduate School Rankings

This year Penn had six schools ranked in the top ten list compiled by U.S. News & World Reports. (Last year's rankings are in parentheses). They are:

#2 Wharton School (#3)
#3 School of Nursing (not ranked annually)
#3 School of Veterinary Medicine (not ranked annually)
#4 School of Medicine (#4)
#6 Graduate School of Education (#5)
#7 Law School (#7)

Business, education, engineering, law and medicine are ranked annually. Most other categories are not ranked each year. Engineering was #29 this year with the biomedical program ranked 8.

Within the Wharton School top picks in specialty programs were:

#1 Accounting (#1)
#1 Finance (#1)
#5 Management (#4)
#6 Management Information Systems (#8)
#3 International Business (#3)
#2 Entrepreneurship (#3)
#2 Executive M.B.A. (not ranked)
#2 Marketing (#2)
#4 Production/Operations Management (#5)
#9 Nonprofit Management (#10)
#3 Supply Chain/Logistics (not ranked)
#3 Health Services Administration

These rankings are based solely on ratings by educators at peer schools.

The School of Medicine was ranked in the top ten in five specialty programs.

#2 Women's Health (#3)
#5 Internal Medicine (#4)
#10 AIDS (not ranked)
#4 Drug/Alcohol Abuse (#6)
#1 Pediatrics (#2)

The School of Nursing's Specialty Programs were ranked this year.

Nurse Practitioner:

#3 Family (#4)
#1 Adult (#1)
#2 Pediatric (#4)
#1 Gerontological/Geriatric (#1)

Clinical Nurse Specialist:

#3 Adult/Medical-Surgical (#2)
#2 Psychiatric/Mental Health (#1)

#2 Nursing Service Administration (#2)
#1 Nursing-Midwifery (not ranked)

The annual US News & World Report rankings of America's Best Graduate Schools will be in the magazine's April 14 issue. For more on the rankings, see www.usnews.com.