April 3, 2000
UW tops nursing school and primary-care medical school rankings
The University of Washington is No. 1 among both nursing schools and primary-care medical schools in U.S. News & World Report annual rankings of graduate programs and professional schools.
In the issue on newsstands April 3, more than 40 UW programs and specialties received rankings in the top 10 from among the hundreds that were considered across the nation. Another nine received rankings of No. 25 or better.
This is the seventh time that the UW has topped the nursing school rankings. Eight academic specialties in the school also were ranked:
Pediatric Nurse Practitioner — 1st
Clinical Nurse Specialist, Adult Medical/Surgical — 1st
Clinical Nurse Specialist, Community/Public Health — 1st
Clinical Nurse Specialist, Psychiatry/Mental Health — 1st
Family Nurse Practitioner — 2nd
Adult Nurse Practitioner — 2nd
Gerontological — 2nd
Nursing Service Administration — 3rd
This is the seventh straight year that the School of Medicine has been named the top primary-care medical school. In the overall ranking of medical schools, the UW medical school was No. 9. Academic specialties ranked at the medical school were:
Family Medicine — 1st
Rural Medicine — 1st
Pediatrics — 4th
AIDS — 4th
Women’s Health — 4th
Geriatrics — 6th
Internal Medicine — 7th
Microbiology — 7th
Drug and Alcohol Abuse — 9th
Other UW graduate programs and academic specialties ranked in the magazine were:
Social Work — 3rd
Speech and Hearing Sciences (not ranked)
Speech Pathology — 2nd
Audiology — 4thDrama/Theater — 4th
Public Health — 5th
Health services administration — 4th
Computer Science — 7th
Software — 5th
Hardware — 7th
Theory — 8th
Artificial Intelligence — 9th
Graphics: User Interaction — 9th
Engineering — 31st
Bioengineering — 5th (joint program between Engineering and School of Medicine)
Computer Engineering — 9thCreative Writing — 10th
Sociology — 13th
Social Psychology — 7th
Physics — 14th
Nuclear Physics — 2nd
Atomic/Molecular Physics — 8th
Psychology — 16thClinical Psychology — 6th
Geology — 18th
Geophysics — 9th
Architecture — 19th
Biological Sciences — 20th
English — 24th
History — 24th
Mathematics — 25th
Mathematical Statistics — 9th
Law — 26th
Education — 27th
Special Education — 6th
Secondary Teacher — 9thMusic — 30th
High-ranking graduate programs from previous years, but which were not re-evaluated this year include: Nursing specialty in Midwifery (10th); Pharmacy (13th); Public Affairs (20th) and specialties Public Policy Analysis (26th), Environmental Policy (5th) and Nonprofit Management (11th); and Library Science (18th).
Selected rankings appear in the April 10 issue of US News & World Report. The rankings are established through several combined methods including statistical analysis of selected academic attributes and surveys of deans and senior faculty at accredited schools in each discipline.
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For more information:
Richard Folkers, US News & World Report, (202) 955-2219