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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.


  Almanac, Vol. 49, No. 28, April 8, 2003

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