UW Press Releases
March 28, 2008

The University of Washington again has been ranked first among primary care medical schools in the country, according to annual rankings of graduate and professional programs provided by U.S. News & World Report.

The UW School of Medicine was tied for sixth in biomedical research. Only Harvard Medical School was ranked as high as the UW in both primary care and research.

In NIH funding, the UW School of Medicine was again second only to Harvard among all U.S. medical schools in grant funding from the NIH. UW Medicine faculty received $579.7 million in NIH funding in 2007—$93 million more than the third-ranked school in this category, the University of Pennsylvania.

The UW School of Medicine again had the distinction of being the only medical school in the nation ranked in the top 10 in all specialties in the annual survey. In addition to top rankings in family medicine and rural health, the school was fourth for teaching students about AIDS; sixth in internal medicine; seventh in three specialties: geriatrics, pediatrics and women’s health; and eighth in drug/alcohol abuse.

Other UW programs newly ranked by U.S. News in the top 10 include the graduate program in occupational therapy, which was ninth, and the pharmacy program, which was ranked fifth.

The UW College of Engineering and School of Medicine's biomedical/bioengineering specialty was ranked fifth. The computer science program was ranked sixth; the specialty in artificial intelligence was ranked fifth, computer science systems was fifth and computer science theory was seventh.

The UW College of Education’s graduate program was ranked seventh.

The program in audiology was ranked third. Speech-language pathology was ranked fifth and clinical psychology first. Social work’s graduate program was ranked fourth.

The environmental policy and management program in the Evans School of Public Affairs was ranked fourth and the nonprofit management program was ranked fifth.

The master of fine arts program in ceramics was ranked fifth, as was the fiber arts program.

The mathematics program in statistics was ranked sixth. The nuclear physics program was ranked third.

U.S. News does not rank all graduate and professional programs every year. For example, the UW School of Nursing was ranked first last year and continues to hold that ranking since the magazine did not cover that discipline in this year’s study.

The UW has previously been ranked the 17th best university in the world by the Institute of Higher Education, Shanghai Jiao Tong University and 22nd of the top 100 global universities by Newsweek magazine.

For a complete list of the rankings, visit the U.S. News & World Report Web site.