The annual U.S. News and World Report's Graduate School Rankings are not available until tomorrow at the earliest, but leaks of the rankings have been available since early this week on numerous pre-law, pre-med, pre-business, and other discussion boards and websites.
Overall, Vanderbilt programs faired well in the latest set of rankings by the New York-based magazine.
The University's biggest jump came from the Owen Graduate School of Management, which moved from a tie for 49th place nationally a year ago to a tie for 34th place along with Penn State University's Smeal School of Business.
Another big move came from Peabody College, whose graduate education program moved from fifth a year ago to a tie for 3rd with Harvard University. The Peabody Special Education program remained first in the nation, according to the rankings set for public release March 31.
Vanderbilt's School of Law gained one spot to number 16, tied with the University of Southern California. Vanderbilt's School of Medicine dropped one spot to number 18.
The School of Engineering's graduate program jumped five spots to number 42 in this year's rankings, placing it in a three-way tie with Washington University in St. Louis and Lehigh University.
The U.S. News and World Report "Best Graduate Schools" Rankings are released annually to anxious students and administrators nationwide. Many have criticized rankings as unnecessary, arbitrary, and too dominant in the graduate school decision-making process.
Read more at www.usnews.com/rankings.
Detailed Rankings:
Schools of Business:
1. Harvard University (MA)
2. Stanford University (CA)
3. University of Pennsylvania (Wharton)
4. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Sloan)
T5. Northwestern University (Kellogg) (IL)
T5. University of Chicago
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T34. Pennsylvania State University-University Park (Smeal)
T34. Vanderbilt University (Owen) (TN)
Schools of Law:
1. Yale University (CT)
T2. Harvard University (MA)
T2. Stanford University (CA)
4. New York University
5. Columbia University (NY)
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17 Vanderbilt University (TN)
Schools of Medicine:
1. Harvard University (MA)
2. Johns Hopkins University (MD)
3. University of Pennsylvania
4. Washington University in St. Louis
5. University of California-San Francisco
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18. Vanderbilt University (TN)
Schools of Education:
1. Teachers College, Columbia University (NY)
2. Stanford University (CA)
T3. Harvard University (MA)
T3. Vanderbilt University (Peabody) (TN)
5. University of California-Los Angeles
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
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T42. Lehigh University (Rossin) (PA)
T42. Vanderbilt University (TN)
T42. Washington University in St. Louis (Sever)
Source: usnews.com/rankings
