25 UI colleges and programs in national top 25

Twenty-five graduate colleges and programs at the University of Iowa are listed among the 25 best in the nation, according to the latest rankings from U.S. News & World Report.

Each year, U.S. News ranks professional schools in business, education, engineering, law, and medicine. The new rankings for each respective college at the UI are:

16. Carver College of Medicine — Primary Care

22. College of Law

29. Carver College of Medicine — Research

43. Tippie College of Business — full-time MBA program

43. College of Education

63. College of Engineering

Overall, the UI has 52 graduate colleges and programs ranked by U.S. News, according to the report.

Highlights of the rankings will be published in the America’s Best Graduate Schools 2016 guidebook, which goes on sale April 7. The rankings are also available online and may be found here. A paid subscription is required to access all of the data.

The yearly professional school (nonspecialty) rankings are based on two types of data: expert opinions about program excellence and statistical indicators that measure the quality of a school’s faculty, research, and students. The data come from surveys of administrators in the respective field, conducted during the fall of 2014.

U.S. News periodically also ranks programs in the arts, sciences, social sciences, humanities, and health. The specialty rankings are based solely on nominations by deans and deans of graduate studies, who were asked to choose up to 10 programs of excellence in each specialty.

Following are all ranked UI graduate schools, specialties, and programs, beginning with the highest-ranked programs. The UI offers 114 graduate degree programs, 76 of which lead to a doctorate.

Rankings with an asterisk (*) are new for the 2016 issue of America’s Best Graduate Schools. All other rankings are from previous years.

1. Speech-Language Pathology (College of Liberal Arts and Sciences)

2. Audiology (College of Liberal Arts and Sciences)

*2. Nursing Administration (College of Nursing)

2. Physician Assistant (Carver College of Medicine)

*3. Rehabilitation Counseling (College of Education)

3. Social Psychology (College of Liberal Arts and Sciences)

5. Printmaking (College of Liberal Arts and Sciences)

5. Physical Therapy (Carver College of Medicine)

*10. Nurse Anesthesia (College of Nursing)

10. Health Care Management (College of Public Health)

*10. Rural Medicine (Carver College of Medicine)

*11. Nurse Practitioner: Adult/Gerontology, Primary Care (College of Nursing)

*12. Family Medicine (Carver College of Medicine)

*14. Nurse Practitioner: Pediatric, Primary Care (College of Nursing)

*14. Higher Education Administration (College of Education)

*14. Student Counseling and Personnel Services (College of Education)

*15. Environmental/Environmental Health Engineering (College of Engineering)

*16. Carver College of Medicine — Primary Care

16. Painting/Drawing (College of Liberal Arts and Sciences)

17. College of Public Health

*17. College of Pharmacy

22. Fine Arts (College of Liberal Arts and Sciences)

*22. College of Law

*24. Part-time M.B.A. (Tippie College of Business)

*25. Clinical Psychology (College of Liberal Arts and Sciences)

*29. Carver College of Medicine — Research

30. Psychology (College of Liberal Arts and Sciences)

32. English (College of Liberal Arts and Sciences)

32. Political Science (College of Liberal Arts and Sciences)

33. Library and Information Studies (Graduate College)

34. Statistics (College of Liberal Arts and Sciences)

35. Sociology (College of Liberal Arts and Sciences)

40. Economics (Tippie College of Business)

42. Biostatistics (College of Public Health)

42. History (College of Liberal Arts and Sciences)

*42. Industrial/Manufacturing/Systems Engineering (College of Engineering)

*43. Tippie College of Business — full-time MBA program

*43. Civil Engineering (College of Engineering)

*43. College of Education

44. Social Work (College of Liberal Arts and Sciences)

*52. Biomedical Engineering/Bioengineering (College of Engineering)

55. Biology (College of Liberal Arts and Sciences)

56. Mathematics (College of Liberal Arts and Sciences)

*59. Mechanical Engineering (College of Engineering)

60. Chemistry (College of Liberal Arts and Sciences)

60. Physics (College of Liberal Arts and Sciences)

*62. Chemical Engineering (College of Engineering)

*62. Computer Engineering (College of Engineering)

*63. College of Engineering

63. Computer Science (College of Liberal Arts and Sciences)

*66. Electrical/Electronic Communications Engineering (College of Engineering)

77. Earth Sciences (College of Liberal Arts and Sciences)