U.S. News Media Group Releases 21st Edition of America's Best Graduate Schools

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Apr 15, 2010, 11:15 ET

WASHINGTON, April 15 /PRNewswire/ -- U.S. News Media Group today released the 2011 America's Best Graduate Schools rankings online at http://www.usnews.com/grad. The new rankings, along with an extensive education and career guide, will also be featured in the May issue of U.S.News & World Report magazine, on newsstands starting April 27.

The 2011 America's Best Graduate Schools includes over 2,000 programs nationwide. In addition to featuring new rankings in five of the largest professional graduate school disciplines (business, law, education, engineering, and medicine), the new edition includes improved and modified rankings of part-time J.D. and M.B.A. programs. The 2011 rankings also include updated peer-assessment-only rankings for Ph.D. programs in biological sciences, chemistry, computer science, earth sciences, mathematics, physics, and for the first time, statistics.

"For over two decades, U.S. News's America's Best Graduate Schools has served as an essential resource for prospective students considering graduate school training," said Brian Kelly, editor of U.S.News & World Report. "With today's turbulent market, there's an even greater demand for professional development opportunities, and for this year's Best Graduate Schools, we've integrated new and updated rankings to ensure we cover the full range of educational programs."

The complete rankings of America's Best Graduate Schools will be available beginning at 12:01 AM EST on Thursday, April 15. The Premium Online Edition of America's Best Graduate Schools, which features the most extensive rankings data available and is searchable based on user criteria (including location, specialty area, and more), will also be available at that time.

Highlights of the Best Graduate School rankings will be featured in the May issue of the U.S.News & World Report magazine, along with the following education and career-themed stories: 10 Tricks to Graduate School Funding, Maximizing Online Education, America's Best Careers, Kick Starting Your Own Recovery, and Getting a Job in a High Growth Field (among others). Additionally, the America's Best Graduate Schools guidebook will be available on stands starting April 20, 2010.

For more information about America's Best Graduate Schools, visit www.usnews.com/grad, and to learn more about the methodology and data research, visit www.usnews.com/aboutgrad.

About the U.S. News Media Group

The U.S. News Media Group is a multi-platform digital publisher of news and analysis, which includes the monthly U.S.News & World Report magazine, the digital-only U.S. News Weekly magazine, www.usnews.com, and www.rankingsandreviews.com. Focusing on Health, Money & Business, Education, and Public Service/Opinion, the U.S. News Media Group has earned a reputation as the leading provider of service news and information that improves the quality of life of its readers. The U.S. News Media Group's signature franchises include its News You Can Use® brand of journalism and its "America's Best" series of consumer guides that include rankings of colleges, graduate schools, hospitals, health plans, and more.

2011 Graduate School Rankings

Schools of Business	Schools of Medicine (Research)
1. Harvard University (MA)	1. Harvard University (MA)
Stanford University (CA)	2. University of Pennsylvania
3. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Sloan)	3. Johns Hopkins University (MD)
4. Northwestern University (Kellogg) (IL)	4. University of California-San Francisco
5. University of Chicago	Washington University in St. Louis
University of Pennsylvania (Wharton)	6. Duke University (NC)
7. Dartmouth College (Tuck) (NH)	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
University of California-Berkeley (Haas)	University of Washington
9. Columbia University (NY)	Yale University (CT)
New York University (Stern)	10. Columbia University (NY)

Schools of Education
1. Vanderbilt University (Peabody) (TN)
2. Teachers College, Columbia University (NY)
3. Harvard University (MA)
Stanford University (CA)
5. University of Oregon
6. Johns Hopkins University (MD)
University of California-Los Angeles
8. Northwestern University (IL)
9. University of Wisconsin-Madison
10. University of California-Berkeley
University of Texas-Austin
University of Washington

Schools of Engineering
1. Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2. Stanford University (CA)
3. University of California-Berkeley
4. Georgia Institute of Technology
5. University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign
6. Carnegie Mellon University (PA)
7. California Institute of Technology
8. University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
9. University of Texas-Austin (Cockrell)
10. Cornell University (NY)
University of Southern California (Viterbi)

Schools of Law
1. Yale University (CT)
2. Harvard University (MA)
3. Stanford University (CA)
4. Columbia University (NY)
5. University of Chicago
6. New York University
7. University of California-Berkeley
University of Pennsylvania
9. University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
10. University of Virginia