Harvard, MIT retain top grad-school rankings in magazine survey
(Dina Rudick/Globe Staff/file)
Harvard University, shown above, earned a top ranking for its business school.
By Globe Staff
Harvard’s medical school and MIT’s school of engineering retained their top spots in US News & World Report’s annual ranking of graduate schools released today.
Among business schools, Harvard and Stanford both received the top ranking. Yale again topped Harvard in the law school category, with Harvard tied for second with Stanford University for the second year.
In the ranking for schools of education, Stanford supplanted Columbia in the top spot this year.
The magazine’s annual rankings, including the list of the best overall colleges due out soon, prompt hand-wringing among educators.
Many elite colleges say they don’t put much credence in them, while other schools say they ignore the rankings altogether. But some campuses end up trumpeting their ranking on their websites and in recruitment literature.
Here is a look at the Top Ten rankings for selective graduate programs:
Business schools
1. Harvard
Stanford University
3. University of Pennsylvania
4. Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Northwestern University
University of Chicago
7. Dartmouth College
University of California-Berkeley
9. Columbia University
10. New York University
Schools of education
1. Stanford University
2. Vanderbilt University
3. University of California–Los Angeles
4. Teachers College, Columbia University
5. University of Oregon
6. Harvard
7. University of California–Berkeley
University of Washington
9. University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
10. University of Pennsylvania
University of Texas–Austin
Schools of engineering
1. MIT
2. Stanford University
3. University of California–Berkeley
4. Georgia Institute of Technology
5. University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
6. California Institute of Technology
7. Carnegie Mellon University
8. University of Southern California
9. Cornell University
10. University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Law schools
1. Yale
2. Harvard
Stanford
4. Columbia
5. New York University
6. University of California–Berkeley
7. University of Chicago
University of Pennsylvania
9. Northwestern
University of Michigan
University of Virginia
Medical schools (research)1. Harvard
2. Johns Hopkins
3. Washington University in St. Louis
4. University of Pennsylvania
5. University of California–San Francisco
6. Duke University
University of Washington
8. Stanford University
9. UCLA
Yale
rising
falling 