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UW Has #1 Primary-Care Med School, Many Programs Rise in Rankings
For the 12th consecutive year, the U.S. News & World Report annual graduate and professional school rankings list the UW School of Medicine as No. 1 for primary-care training. The magazine ranked it 7th in research. In comparison with last year's rankings, the College of Education rose from 31st to 17th, the Business School rose from 27th to 18th and the College of Engineering rose from 25th to 24th.
America's Best Graduate Schools 2006 Edition, a book published by U.S. News & World Report, contains a section on the UW medical school in which writer Justin Ewers observes, "Opportunities outside primary care for UW medical students include working with award-winning researchers and rubbing elbows with five Nobel Prize laureates and 25 National Academy of Sciences members."
Academic specialties in the medical school that were ranked highly include: family medicine (first for the 14th year in a row), rural medicine (first for the 14th year in a row), AIDS (fourth), women's health (sixth), internal medicine (seventh), geriatrics (seventh), drug and alcohol abuse (eighth), and pediatrics (ninth). The UW School of Medicine was the only medical school in the country to rank in the top 10 in all specialties that were listed.
The bioengineering program, jointly administered by the School of Medicine and College of Engineering, was ranked fourth in the country.
According to U.S. News, the School of Medicine is second among all medical schools and top among public schools in research funding from the National Institutes of Health.
Other top 10 UW graduate and professional programs newly ranked this year include the sex and gender specialty in sociology (fourth ), the social psychology specialty in sociology (10th), and the special education specialty in education (ninth).
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