Graduate School Rankings - 1994 U.S.NEWS & WORLD REPORT, MARCH 21, 1994 \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\ LAW METHODOLOGY Here's how the rankings were determined for the nation's 176 accredited law schools. There were five categories: student selectivity, placement success, faculty resources and two separate measures of institutional reputation. STUDENT SELECTIVITY was based on the following data for full-time J.D. students in the fall 1993 entering class: median undergraduate grade point average (40 percent of the category total), median score on the Law School Admission Test (50 percent) and percentage of applicants accepted (10 percent). PLACEMENT SUCCESS was based on the percentage of the 1993 graduating class employed at graduation (30 percent); the percentage employed six months after graduation (40 percent); the ratio of last year's on-campus recruiters to the number of 1993 graduates (5 percent) and the median starting salary, excluding bonuses, for '93 graduates employed in the private sector (25 percent). FACULTY RESOURCES was based on the school's total expenditures per student for instruction, library and supporting services during the school year beginning in fall 1992 (75 percent); the number of books, microfilm rolls and microfiche in the law library divided by the number of law students (5 percent), and the current student-to-teacher ratio (20 percent). REPUTATION was based on two surveys conducted this winter. In one, deans and senior law school faculty rated by quartiles the reputation of each school. In the other, 3,000 practicing lawyers, hiring partners and senior judges were asked to rate each school by quartiles based upon their appraisals of the work of recent graduates of that school. OVERALL RANK was determined by converting into percentiles the scores achieved by each school in the above categories. The highest score in each category--or subcategory--was given a value of 100 percent. The scores for all the other schools were then converted into percentiles by figuring them as percentages of the score achieved by the No. 1 school and then were number ranked in descending order. (The ranks for selectivity, placement success and faculty resources were determined by totaling the weighted percentiles of their subvariables.) Next, the number ranks of the five indicators were weighted: The two reputational surveys and placement success each accounted for 20 percent of the final score; student selectivity for 25 percent and faculty resources for 15 percent. Final rankings were determined by totaling the five weighted number-ranked scores. The weighted score for the top school was then given a value of 100 percent. Scores for the others were determined by figuring their totals as percentages of the score achieved by the No. 1 school. LAW SCHOOLS WITH THE HIGHEST SCORES IN THE U.S. NEWS SURVEY 1. YALE UNIVERSITY (Conn.) 2. HARVARD UNIVERSITY (Mass.) 3. STANFORD UNIVERSITY (Calif.) 4. UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO 5. COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY (N.Y.) 6. NEW YORK UNIVERSITY 7. DUKE UNIVERSITY (N.C.) 8. UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AT ANN ARBOR 9. UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA 10. UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT BERKELEY 11. CORNELL UNIVERSITY (N.Y.) 12. NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY (Ill.) 13. GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY (D.C.) 14. UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA 15. VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY (Tenn.) 16. UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT LOS ANGELES 17. UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA AT TWIN CITIES 18. UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA 19. UNIVERSITY OF IOWA 20. UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA--HASTINGS 21. UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN 22. EMORY UNIVERSITY (Ga.) 22. WASHINGTON AND LEE UNIVERSITY (Va.) 24. BOSTON COLLEGE 25. UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON 26. UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME (Ind.) 27. UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA 28. UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN 29. COLLEGE OF WILLIAM AND MARY (Va.) 30. UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT DAVIS *** 31. UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA *** 32. UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL 33. FORDHAM UNIVERSITY (N.Y.) 33. INDIANA UNIVERSITY AT BLOOMINGTON 35. UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO AT BOULDER 36. WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY (N.C.) 37. UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN AT MADISON 38. BOSTON UNIVERSITY 39. UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA 40. UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT 40. TULANE UNIVERSITY (La.) 40. CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY (Ohio) 43. BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY (Utah) 44. GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY (D.C.) 45. UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND AT BALTIMORE 46. OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY 47. RUTGERS UNIVERSITY AT NEWARK (N.J.) 48. WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY (Mo.) 49. UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON 50. SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY (Texas) \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\ BUSINESS METHODOLOGY Here's how U.S. NEWS determined the rankings for the nation's 273 accredited M.B.A. programs. There were five categories: student selectivity, placement success, graduation rate and two measures of institutional reputation. STUDENT SELECTIVITY was based on three indicators for full-time M.B.A.'s entering in the fall of 1993: average scores on the Graduate Management Admission Test (accounting for 65 percent of the category total), undergraduate grade point average (30 percent) and the percentage of applicants accepted (5 percent). PLACEMENT SUCCESS was based on four indicators for the full-time M.B.A. class that graduated in 1993: the percentage employed at graduation (30 percent of the category total), the percentage employed three months after graduation (25 percent), their median starting salaries excluding sign-up or other bonuses (40 percent) and the ratio of the number of last year's on-campus M.B.A. recruiters to the number of 1993 graduates (5 percent). GRADUATION RATE represented the average percentage of students in the 1992 and 1993 graduating classes earning M.B.A.'s within two years. REPUTATION was determined by two U.S. NEWS surveys conducted this winter. In the first, business school deans and M.B.A. program directors ranked by quartile the reputation of each M.B.A. program and in the second, 2,000 chief executive officers representing a cross section of the largest U.S. corporations were asked to select the 25 top graduate business schools in the nation. OVERALL RANK was determined by converting into percentiles the scores achieved by each school in each of the above categories. The highest score achieved by the top school in each category--or subcategory--was given a value of 100 percent. The scores for all the other schools were then converted into percentiles by figuring them as percentages of the score achieved by the No. 1 school and then were number ranked in descending order. (The scores in the categories of placement success and student selectivity--made up of the variables listed above--were determined by totaling the weighted percentiles of these variables.) Next, the number ranks of the five indicators were weighted: The two reputational surveys each accounted for 20 percent of the final score; student selectivity for 25 percent; placement success for 30 percent, and graduation rate for 5 percent. The final rankings were then determined by totaling the five weighted number-ranked scores. The weighted score for the top school was given a value of 100 percent. The scores for all the others were then determined by figuring their totals as percentages of the score achieved by the No. 1 school. GRADUATE SCHOOLS OF BUSINESS WITH THE HIGHEST SCORES IN THE U.S. NEWS SURVEY 1. STANFORD UNIVERSITY (Calif.) 2. MASSACHUSETTS INST. OF TECHNOLOGY (Sloan) 3. HARVARD UNIVERSITY (Mass.) 4. UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA (Wharton) 5. NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY (Kellogg) (Ill.) 6. UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO 7. DARTMOUTH COLLEGE (Tuck) (N.H.) 8. UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AT ANN ARBOR 9. DUKE UNIVERSITY (Fuqua) (N.C.) 10. UNIV. OF CALIFORNIA AT LOS ANGELES (Anderson) 11. COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY (N.Y.) 12. UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT BERKELEY (Haas) 13. UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA (Darden) 13. CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY (Pa.) 15. CORNELL UNIVERSITY (Johnson) (N.Y.) 16. UNIV. OF N.CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL (Kenan-Flagler) 17. NEW YORK UNIVERSITY (Stern) 18. UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN 19. YALE UNIVERSITY (Conn.) 20. UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA 21. INDIANA UNIVERSITY AT BLOOMINGTON 21. EMORY UNIVERSITY (Ga.) 23. UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER (Simon) (N.Y.) 23. PURDUE UNIVERSITY (Krannert) (Ind.) 25. GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY (D.C.) 26. GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY 27. WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY (Olin) (Mo.) 28. VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY (Owen) (Tenn.) 29. UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND AT COLLEGE PARK 30. UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH (Katz) 31. ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY 32. BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY (Marriott) (Utah) 33. UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN AT MADISON 34. OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY 35. UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN 35. UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE AT KNOXVILLE 37. UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON 38. UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA (Terry) 38. UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA 40. UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA AT TWIN CITIES (Carlson) 41. CLAREMONT GRADUATE SCHOOL (Drucker) (Calif.) 41. MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY (Broad) 43. CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIV. (Weatherhead) (Ohio) 44. TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY AT COLLEGE STATION 45. PENN STATE UNIV. AT UNIVERSITY PARK(Smeal) *** 46. UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA (Eller) *** 47. BOSTON UNIVERSITY 48. UNIVERSITY OF IOWA 49. TULANE UNIVERSITY (Freeman) (La.) 50. SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY (Cox) (Texas) \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\ DEANS AND HEADS OF M.B.A. PROGRAMS RANKED THESE SCHOOLS TOPS IN VARIOUS BUSINESS SPECIALTIES ACCOUNTING 1. Stanford University (Calif.) 2. Univ. of Ill. at Urbana-Champaign 3. University of Texas at Austin 4. University of Chicago 5. Univ. of Pennsylvania (Wharton) COMMUNICATIONS 1. Dartmouth College (Tuck) (N.H.) 2. Harvard University (Mass.) 3. Northwestern Univ. (Kellogg) (Ill.) 4. University of Michigan 5. Stanford University (Calif.) ENTREPRENEURSHIP 1. Babson College (Mass.) 1. University of Pennsylvania (Wharton) 3. Harvard University (Mass.) 4. Stanford University (Calif.) 5. Univ. of Calif. at L.A. (Anderson) FINANCE 1. University of Pennsylvania (Wharton) 2. University of Chicago 3. Stanford University (Calif.) 4. New York University (Stern) 5. Mass. Inst. of Tech. (Sloan) GENERAL MANAGEMENT 1. Harvard University (Mass.) 2. Stanford University (Calif.) 3. Northwestern Univ. (Kellogg) (Ill.) 4. University of Michigan 5. Dartmouth College (Tuck) (N.H.) GLOBAL MANAGEMENT 1. University of South Carolina 2. Univ. of Pennsylvania (Wharton) 3. New York University (Stern) 4. Harvard University (Mass.) 5. Columbia University (N.Y.) HUMAN RESOURCES MGMT. 1. Harvard University (Mass.) 1. Stanford University (Calif.) 3. University of Michigan 4. Cornell University (Johnson) (N.Y.) 5. Northwestern University (Kellogg) (Ill.) MGMT. INFORMATION SYSTEMS 1. Mass. Inst. of Tech. (Sloan) 2. Univ. of Minnesota (Carlson) 3. Carnegie Mellon University (Pa.) 4. *** University of Arizona (Eller) *** 5. University of Texas at Austin MARKETING 1. Northwestern Univ. (Kellogg) (Ill.) 2. Stanford University (Calif.) 3. Univ. of Pennsylvania (Wharton) 4. Harvard University (Mass.) 5. University of Michigan NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS 1. Yale University (Conn.) 2. Stanford University (Calif.) 3. Harvard University (Mass.) 4. Northwestern Univ. (Kellogg) (Ill.) 5. Univ. of Pennsylvania (Wharton) PRODUCTION/OPERATIONS MGMT. 1. Mass. Inst. of Tech. (Sloan) 2. Carnegie Mellon University (Pa.) 3. Harvard University (Mass.) 4. Stanford University (Calif.) 4. Purdue University (Krannert) (Ind.) QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS 1. Mass. Inst. of Tech. (Sloan) 2. Carnegie Mellon University (Pa.) 3. University of Chicago 4. Stanford University (Calif.) 5. Univ. of Pennsylvania (Wharton) \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\ MEDICAL METHODOLOGY U.S. NEWS recognizes that while all medical schools train physicians and do research, they differ in emphasis. Hence, we divided the 126 medical schools into two categories: those more oriented toward research and those more oriented toward training primary care physicians. Based upon suggestions from medical educators, we placed the 60 schools receiving the most research money from the National Institutes of Health in one category and all the rest in a category we call comprehensive schools. All the schools were ranked according to the following criteria: STUDENT SELECTIVITY was based on data for the fall 1993 entering class: undergraduate grade point average (accounting for 30 percent), average scores on the Medical College Admission Test (65 percent) and the percentage of applicants accepted (5 percent). FACULTY RESOURCES represented the 1993 total medical school full-time faculty-to-student ratio. REPUTATION was based on the results of separate surveys. In the first, medical-school deans and senior faculty were asked to rank by quartile the reputation of the schools in their category. In the second, 3,000 directors of intern-residency programs were asked to select the 20 best medical schools among either research or comprehensive schools based upon their appraisals of recent graduates. RESEARCH ACTIVITY, used only in ranking the research-oriented schools, was based on the total dollar amount of NIH grants awarded to the medical school and its affiliated hospitals in 1993. OVERALL RANK was determined by converting into percentiles the scores achieved by each school in the above categories. The highest score in each category--or subcategory--was given a value of 100 percent. The scores for all the other schools were then converted into percentiles by figuring them as percentages of the score achieved by the No. 1 school and then were number ranked in descending order. (The scores in the student selectivity category were determined by totaling the weighted percentiles of its sub-variables.) Next, the number ranks of the five indicators were weighted: The two reputational surveys and student selectivity each accounted for 20 percent of the final score; faculty resources for 10 percent, and research activity for 30 percent. (For the comprehensive schools, the two reputational surveys each counted 30 percent of the final score; student selectivity for 25 percent, and faculty resources 15 percent.) The final rankings were then determined by totaling the five weighted number-ranked scores. The weighted score for the top school was given a value of 100 percent. The scores for all the others were then determined by figuring their totals as percentages of the score achieved by the No. 1 school. RESEARCH-ORIENTED MEDICAL SCHOOLS WITH THE HIGHEST SCORES IN THE U.S. NEWS SURVEY ----------------------------------------------------------- 1. HARVARD UNIVERSITY (Mass.) 2. JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY (Md.) 3. YALE UNIVERSITY (Conn.) 4. UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT SAN FRANCISCO 5. WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY (Mo.) 6. DUKE UNIVERSITY (N.C.) 7. UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA 8. COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY (N.Y.) 9. STANFORD UNIVERSITY (Calif.) 9. UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON 11. UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AT ANN ARBOR 12. UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT LOS ANGELES 13. UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT SAN DIEGO 14. VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY (Tenn.) 15. BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE (Texas) 16. UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO 17. CORNELL UNIVERSITY (N.Y.) 18. UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH 19. CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY (Ohio) 20. NEW YORK UNIVERSITY COMPREHENSIVE MEDICAL SCHOOLS WITH THE HIGHEST SCORES IN THE U.S. NEWS SURVEY 1. OREGON HEALTH SCIENCES UNIVERSITY 2. GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY (D.C.) 3. THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY (Pa.) 4. UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT DAVIS 5. OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY 6. BROWN UNIVERSITY (R.I.) 7. STATE UNIVERSITY OF N.Y. AT BUFFALO 8. UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY 9. U. OF MED./DENT.--ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON (N.J.) 10. UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS MEDICAL CENTER 11. ST. LOUIS UNIVERSITY (Mo.) 12. MEDICAL COLLEGE OF GEORGIA 13. UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO 14. UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA 15. UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE AT MEMPHIS 16. UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT IRVINE 17. SUNY HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT SYRACUSE 18. TULANE UNIVERSITY (La.) 19. MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY 20. UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\ MEDICAL SCHOOL DEANS AND SENIOR FACULTY RANKED THESE RESEARCH-ORIENTED MEDICAL SCHOOLS TOPS IN THE FOLLOWING SPECIALTIES AIDS 1. Univ. of California at San Francisco 2. Harvard University (Mass.) 3. Johns Hopkins University (Md.) 4. Univ. of California at Los Angeles 5. University of Washington DRUG AND ALCOHOL ABUSE 1. Johns Hopkins University (Md.) 2. Yale University (Conn.) 3. Harvard University (Mass.) 4. Univ. of California at San Francisco 5. University of Pennsylvania FAMILY MEDICINE 1. University of Washington 2. Univ. of N. Carolina at Chapel Hill 3. University of Iowa 4. Univ. of Colo. Health Sciences Ctr. 4. Univ. of Alabama at Birmingham GERIATRIC CARE 1. Johns Hopkins University (Md.) 2. Yale University (Conn.) 3. Harvard University (Mass.) 4. Univ. of California at San Francisco 5. University of Pennsylvania INTERNAL MEDICINE 1. Harvard University (Mass.) 2. Johns Hopkins University (Md.) 3. Duke University (N.C.) 4. Univ. of California at San Francisco 5. Washington University (Mo.) PEDIATRICS 1. Harvard University (Mass.) 2. Johns Hopkins University (Md.) 3. University of Pennsylvania 4. University of Washington 4. Yale University (Conn.) RURAL MEDICINE 1. University of Washington 2. Univ. of N. Carolina at Chapel Hill 3. University of Iowa 4. University of Vermont 5. Univ. of Minnesota at Minneapolis WOMEN'S HEALTH 1. Harvard University (Mass.) 2. Johns Hopkins University (Md.) 3. University of Washington 4. Univ. of California at San Francisco 5. Yale University (Conn.) \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\ ENGINEERING METHODOLOGY Here's how U.S. NEWS determined the rankings for the nation's 209 graduate engineering programs: There were five categories-- faculty resources, research activity, student selectivity and two separate measures of institutional reputation. STUDENT SELECTIVITY was based on three statistics for doctoral and master's degree candidates who enrolled in the fall of 1993: average scores in the quantitative and analytical parts of the Graduate Record Examination (each counts for 45 percent of the category) and percentage of applicants accepted in the program (10 percent). FACULTY RESOURCES was based on these variables: the percentage of full-time faculty who held Ph.D.'s during the current academic year (20 percent of the total); the current ratio of both full-time doctoral (25 percent) and master's degree candidates to full-time faculty (10 percent); the proportion of engineering graduate students who were Ph.D. candidates (20 percent), and the number of Ph.D. degrees granted in 1993 (25 percent). RESEARCH ACTIVITY was based on two indicators: the 1993 dollar total of the public and privately funded research administered by the engineering school (60 percent) and that total divided by the number of faculty members engaged in research (40 percent). REPUTATION was determined by two U.S. NEWS reputational surveys conducted this winter. In the first, engineering school deans and deans of academic affairs were asked to rate by quartiles the reputation of each graduate engineering program. In the second, 1,400 practicing engineers were asked to select the 25 top graduate engineering programs based upon their experiences with recent graduates of those programs. OVERALL RANK was determined by converting into percentiles the scores achieved by each school in the above categories. The highest score in each category--or subcategory--was given a value of 100 percent. The scores for the other schools were then converted into percentiles by figuring them as percentages of the score achieved by the No. 1 school and ranked in descending order. The ranking for research activity, faculty resources and selectivity were determined by totaling the weighted percentiles of their sub-variables. Next, the number ranks in the five indicators were weighted: The two reputational surveys each accounted for 20 percent of the final score; faculty resources and research activity for 25 percent each, and student selectivity for 10 percent. The final rankings were then determined by totaling the five weighted number ranked scores. The weighted score for the top school was given a value of 100 percent. The scores for all the others were then determined by figuring their totals as percentages of the score achieved by the No. 1 school. GRADUATE SCHOOLS OF ENGINEERING WITH THE HIGHEST SCORES IN THE U.S. NEWS SURVEY ----------------------------------------------------------- 1. MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY 2. STANFORD UNIVERSITY (Calif.) 3. PURDUE UNIVERSITY (Ind.) 4. UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN 5. UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT BERKELEY 6. CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY 7. UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AT ANN ARBOR 8. CORNELL UNIVERSITY (N.Y.) 9. UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN 10. CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY (Pa.) 10. GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY 12. NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY (Ill.) 13. UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN AT MADISON 14. PENN STATE UNIV. AT UNIVERSITY PARK 15. UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA AT TWIN CITIES 16. PRINCETON UNIVERSITY (N.J.) 17. UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT LOS ANGELES 18. RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE (N.Y.) 19. OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY 20. TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY AT COLLEGE STATION 21. UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA 22. UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO AT BOULDER 23. UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA 24. RICE UNIVERSITY (Texas) 25. JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY (Md.) 26. HARVARD UNIVERSITY (Mass.) 26. VIRGINIA TECH 28. NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY 29. UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON 30. CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY (Ohio) 31. MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY 31. UNIV. OF CALIF. AT SANTA BARBARA 33. UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA 33. DUKE UNIVERSITY (N.C.) 35. LEHIGH UNIVERSITY (Pa.) 36. UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA 37. UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND AT COLLEGE PARK 38. UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT DAVIS 39. UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT SAN DIEGO 40. UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER (N.Y.) 41. COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY (N.Y.) 42. VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY (Tenn.) 43. YALE UNIVERSITY (Conn.) 43. DARTMOUTH COLLEGE (N.H.) 45. UNIVERSITY OF IOWA 46. BROWN UNIVERSITY (R.I.) 47. UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE 47. COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY 49. UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI 50. IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\ DEANS RANKED THESE SCHOOLS TOPS IN VARIOUS ENGINEERING SPECIALTIES AEROSPACE 1. Massachusetts Inst. of Technology 2. California Institute of Technology 3. Stanford University (Calif.) 4. University of Michigan at Ann Arbor 5. Georgia Institute of Technology AGRICULTURE 1. Univ. of Ill. at Urbana-Champaign 2. Cornell University (N.Y.) 2. Purdue Univ. at W. Lafayette (Ind.) 2. Texas A&M Univ. at College Sta. 5. University of California at Davis BIOMEDICAL 1. Johns Hopkins University (Md.) 2. Duke University (N.C.) 3. Case Western Reserve Univ. (Ohio) 4. Massachusetts Inst. of Technology 5. University of California at San Diego CHEMICAL 1. Massachusetts Inst. of Technology 2. University of California at Berkeley 3. University of Minnesota 4. University of Wisconsin at Madison 5. Stanford University (Calif.) CIVIL 1. University of California at Berkeley 2. Massachusetts Inst. of Technology 3. Univ. of Ill. at Urbana-Champaign 4. Stanford University (Calif.) 4. University of Texas at Austin COMPUTER 1. Massachusetts Inst. of Technology 2. Carnegie Mellon University (Pa.) 3. Stanford University (Calif.) 4. University of California at Berkeley 5. Univ. of Ill. at Urbana-Champaign ELECTRICAL/ELECTRONIC 1. Massachusetts Inst. of Technology 2. Univ. of Ill. at Urbana-Champaign 3. Stanford University (Calif.) 4. University of California at Berkeley 5. University of Michigan at Ann Arbor ENVIRONMENTAL 1. Stanford University (Calif.) 1. University of Michigan at Ann Arbor 3. Univ. of Ill. at Urbana-Champaign 4. University of California at Berkeley 5. University of Texas at Austin INDUSTRIAL/MANUFACTURING 1. Georgia Institute of Technology 2. Purdue Univ. at W. Lafayette (Ind.) 3. University of Michigan at Ann Arbor 4. University of California at Berkeley 5. Penn State Univ. at University Park MATERIALS/METALLURGICAL 1. Massachusetts Inst. of Technology 2. Univ. of Ill. at Urbana-Champaign 3. University of California at Berkeley 4. Stanford University (Calif.) 5. Northwestern University (Ill.) MECHANICAL 1. Massachusetts Inst. of Technology 2. Stanford University (Calif.) 3. University of California at Berkeley 4. Univ. of Ill. at Urbana-Champaign 5. Purdue Univ. at W. Lafayette (Ind.) NUCLEAR 1. Massachusetts Inst. of Technology 2. University of California at Berkeley 3. Univ. of Ill. at Urbana-Champaign 4. University of Michigan at Ann Arbor 5. University of Wisconsin at Madison \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\ FINE ARTS METHODOLOGY Here's how U.S. NEWS determined the rankings of graduate programs in drama/theater (master of fine arts), film (master of fine arts), music (master of music), art/fine arts (master of fine arts), architecture (master of architecture), social work (master of social work) and public health (master of public health). This winter, questionnaires were sent to deans, top administrators and senior faculty of the accredited schools in each discipline. In architecture, only schools offering the master of architecture degree were included. In most cases, questionnaires were sent to three respondents at each school. Respondents rated only the institutions in their own disciplines. They were asked to rank the reputations of accredited schools by placing them into tiers of academic quality, taking into account a school's scholarship, curriculum and the quality of its faculty and graduate students. A 5-point scale was used: A school considered ``distinguished'' was given 5 points, ``strong'' counted for 4, ``good'' for 3, ``adequate'' for 2 and ``marginal'' for 1. ``Don't knows'' did not count. U.S. NEWS totaled the number of points for each school and divided the total by the number of respondents who rated that school. Schools were ranked in descending order based on their average scores. The highest possible score was 5.0. Reputation surveys by Market Facts Inc. Response rates: architecture, 60.4 percent; public health, 58.8 percent; social work, 51.9 percent; arts, 34.4 percent; drama, 52.7 percent; film, 53.9 percent; music, 55.5 percent. THESE ARE THE SCHOOLS WITH THE HIGHEST SCORES IN THE U.S. NEWS SURVEYS OF DEANS AND SENIOR FACULTY (MASTER OF MUSIC) AVERAGE REPUTATION RANK SCHOOL SCORE 1. INDIANA UNIVERSITY AT BLOOMINGTON 4.80 1. JUILLIARD SCHOOL (N.Y.) 4.80 1. UNIV. OF ROCHESTER--EASTMAN SCHOOL OF MUSIC (N.Y.) 4.80 4. UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN 4.70 5. CURTIS INSTITUTE OF MUSIC (Pa.) 4.60 6. NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY (Ill.) 4.50 6. YALE UNIVERSITY (Conn.) 4.50 8. NEW ENGLAND CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC (Mass.) 4.40 8. OBERLIN COLLEGE CONSERVATORY (Ohio) 4.40 8. UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN 4.40 8. UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA 4.40 (MASTER OF FINE ARTS) AVERAGE REPUTATION RANK/SCHOOL SCORE 1. YALE UNIVERSITY (Conn.) 4.80 2. NEW YORK UNIVERSITY 4.30 3. CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY (Pa.) 3.90 3. NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF THE ARTS 3.90 3. UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON 3.90 6. AMERICAN CONSERVATORY THEATER (Calif.) 3.80 6. UNIV. OF CALIFORNIA AT SAN DIEGO 3.80 8. UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN 3.70 9. BOSTON UNIVERSITY 3.60 9. BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY (Mass.) 3.60 9. FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY 3.60 9. RUTGERS UNIVERSITY-NEW BRUNSWICK (N.J.) 3.60 9. UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL 3.60 (MASTER OF FINE ARTS) AVERAGE REPUTATION RANK SCHOOL SCORE 1. SCHOOL OF THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO 4.40 1. YALE UNIVERSITY (Conn.) 4.40 3. RHODE ISLAND SCHOOL OF DESIGN 4.30 4. CRANBROOK ACADEMY OF ART (Mich.) 4.20 5. ALFRED UNIVERSITY (N.Y.) 3.90 5. CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF THE ARTS 3.90 5. UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT DAVIS 3.90 8. PRATT INSTITUTE (N.Y) 3.80 8. INDIANA UNIVERSITY AT BLOOMINGTON 3.80 8. MARYLAND INSTITUTE COLLEGE OF ART 3.80 8. SAN FRANCISCO ART INSTITUTE 3.80 8. UNIVERSITY OF IOWA 3.80 (MASTER OF ARCHITECTURE) AVERAGE REPUTATION RANK/SCHOOL SCORE 1. HARVARD UNIVERSITY (Mass.) 4.60 2. PRINCETON UNIVERSITY (N.J.) 4.40 3. COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY (N.Y.) 4.30 3. YALE UNIVERSITY (Conn.) 4.30 5. MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY 4.20 6. RICE UNIVERSITY (Texas) 4.00 7. UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT BERKELEY 3.90 7. UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA 3.90 9. UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN 3.80 9. UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA 3.80 \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\ PUBLIC SERVICE THESE SCHOOLS SCORED HIGHEST IN THE SURVEY OF DEANS AND SENIOR FACULTY: (MASTER OF SOCIAL WORK) AVERAGE REPUTATION RANK/SCHOOL SCORE 1. UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN 4.40 2. UNIV. OF CALIFORNIA AT BERKELEY 4.30 2. UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO 4.30 2. WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY (Mo.) 4.30 5. COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY (N.Y.) 4.20 6. UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON 4.10 7. CASE WESTERN RESERVE (Ohio) 3.90 7. UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA 3.90 7. UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN AT MADISON 3.90 10. CUNY HUNTER COLLEGE (N.Y.) 3.80 10. SMITH COLLEGE (Mass.) 3.80 (MASTER OF PUBLIC HEALTH) AVERAGE REPUTATION RANK/SCHOOL SCORE 1. JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY (Md.) 4.70 2. HARVARD UNIVERSITY (Mass.) 4.50 2. UNIV. OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL 4.50 4. UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON 4.30 5. UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN 4.00