University Times

Pitt graduate programs listed in annual ranking compiled by U. S. News

Pitt was ranked among the nation's top graduate schools in several disciplines by U.S. News & World Report's annual rankings of America's best graduate schools.

The rankings included Pitt graduate programs in library science (3rd, tied with Syracuse and the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor), public affairs (20th), medicine (24th, tied with New York University and the University of Alabama-Birmingham), education (37th), and business (44th place, tied with Case Western Reserve, William and Mary, Tulane and the University of Washington).

Within library science, Pitt was ranked for the following subdisciplines: health librarianship (1st), information systems (3rd), archives and preservation (4th), and services for children and youth (4th, tied with the University of Wisconsin-Madison).

Among medical schools, Pitt was ranked 7th in the subdiscipline of women's health.

Pitt was ranked among Ph.D. programs for (in alphabetical order): economics (39th, tied with Indiana University-Bloomington and Vanderbilt), English (33rd, tied with Penn State, the University of Maryland and Vanderbilt), history (49th, tied with the University of Colorado-Boulder and the University of Kansas), political science (39th, tied with Florida State, Georgetown, Syracuse, the University of California-Davis and the University of Pennsylvania) and psychology (30th, tied with New York University, the University of California-Irvine, the University of Iowa, the University of Massachusetts-Amherst and Washington University).

Among the health subdisciplines, Pitt was ranked (in alphabetical order) for audiology (22nd, tied with Gallaudet University, Syracuse, the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, the University of Oklahoma Health Science Center and the University of Tennessee), health services administration (19th, tied with Boston University, Cornell, Duke, George Washington University, New York University, Trinity University and the University of Missouri-Columbia), nursing (12th, tied with Indiana University-Indianapolis, Rush University, the University of Arizona, the University of California-Los Angeles and the University of Colorado-Denver), physical therapy (11th, tied with Columbia, Texas Women's University, Baylor and the University of Alabama-Birmingham), public health (10th, tied with Yale), social work (18th, tied with the University of Pennsylvania and Virginia Commonwealth University) and speech pathology (18th, tied with Penn State and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln).

U.S. News published its graduate school rankings last week. They are also posted electronically at U.S. News & World Report's website, located at (http://www.usnews.com).

— Bruce Steele