Each year, U.S. News ranks professional schools in business, education, engineering, law, and medicine. The 2018 rankings for each respective college at the UI are listed below.
20. College of Law
21. Carver College of Medicine—Primary Care
23. College of Nursing
35. Carver College of Medicine—Research
43. College of Education
64. Tippie College of Business—Full-Time MBA Program
67. College of Engineering
Overall, the UI has 53 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 2018 guidebook, which goes on sale April 5. A paid subscription is required to access all of the data.
The yearly professional school (non-specialty) 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 2016 and early 2017.
U.S. News also periodically 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.
Below are all 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.
1. Speech-Language Pathology (College of Liberal Arts and Sciences)*
2. Audiology (College of Liberal Arts and Sciences)*
2. Physician Assistant (Carver College of Medicine)*
3. Social Psychology (College of Liberal Arts and Sciences)
3. Rehabilitation Counseling (College of Education)*
5. Printmaking (College of Liberal Arts and Sciences)*
6. Nursing Administration (College of Nursing)
6. Physical Therapy (Carver College of Medicine)*
10. Student Counseling and Personnel Services (College of Education)
10. Nurse Anesthesia (College of Nursing)*
10. Health Care Management (College of Public Health)*
11. Nurse Practitioner: Adult/Gerontology, Primary Care (College of Nursing)
12. Higher Education Administration (College of Education)
13. Doctor of Nursing Practice (College of Nursing)
16. Painting/Drawing (College of Liberal Arts and Sciences)*
16. Psychiatric/Mental Health Nurse Practitioner (College of Nursing)
17. Family Medicine (Carver College of Medicine)
17. College of Public Health*
17. College of Pharmacy*
20. Nurse Practitioner: Family (College of Nursing)
20. College of Law
21. Carver College of Medicine—Primary Care
22. Environmental/Environmental Health Engineering (College of Engineering)
23. College of Nursing
25. Clinical Psychology (College of Liberal Arts and Sciences)*
26. Psychology (College of Liberal Arts and Sciences)
32. Library and Information Studies (Graduate College)
33. Carver College of Medicine—Research
33. Fine Arts (College of Liberal Arts and Sciences)*
34. Statistics (College of Liberal Arts and Sciences)*
36. Sociology (College of Liberal Arts and Sciences)
37. Political Science (College of Liberal Arts and Sciences)
38. Part-time MBA (Tippie College of Business)
42. Economics (Tippie College of Business)
42. English (College of Liberal Arts and Sciences)
42. Biostatistics (College of Public Health)*
43. College of Education
45. Civil Engineering (College of Engineering)
49. Chemical Engineering (College of Engineering)
50. Industrial/Manufacturing/Systems Engineering (College of Engineering)
53. History (College of Liberal Arts and Sciences)
53. Social Work (College of Liberal Arts and Sciences)*
55. Biology (College of Liberal Arts and Sciences)*
56. Biomedical Engineering/Bioengineering (College of Engineering)
56. Mathematics (College of Liberal Arts and Sciences)*
60. Chemistry (College of Liberal Arts and Sciences)*
60. Physics (College of Liberal Arts and Sciences)*
63. Computer Science (College of Liberal Arts and Sciences)*
64. Tippie College of Business—Full-Time MBA Program
65. Mechanical Engineering (College of Engineering)
67. College of Engineering
70. Computer Engineering (College of Engineering)
74. Electrical/Electronic Communications Engineering (College of Engineering)
77. Earth Sciences (College of Liberal Arts and Sciences)*
Rankings with an asterisk (*) were not ranked for the 2018 issue of America’s Best Graduate Schools, but represent the college or program’s most recent ranking.