Each year, U.S. News & World Report ranks professional schools in business, education, engineering, law, medicine, and nursing. The 2020 rankings for each respective college at the UI are listed below.

26. Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine—Primary Care
27.  College of Law
38. Carver College of Medicine—Research
50. College of Education
73. College of Engineering

Overall, the UI has 60 graduate colleges and programs ranked by U.S. News, according to the 2020 report. Eleven of these programs hold top 10 rankings in their categories.

Highlights of the rankings will be published in the America’s Best Graduate Schools 2020 guidebook, which goes on sale March 12. 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 relevant fields conducted during the fall of 2018 and early 2019.

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 151 graduate degree and professional degree programs.

1. Speech-Language Pathology (College of Liberal Arts and Sciences)*
1. Physician Assistant (Carver College of Medicine)
2. Audiology (College of Liberal Arts and Sciences)*
3. Social Psychology (College of Liberal Arts and Sciences)*
5. Printmaking (College of Liberal Arts and Sciences)*
6. Physical Therapy (Carver College of Medicine)*
7. Nursing Administration (College of Nursing)
8. Nurse Practitioner: Adult/Gerontology, Acute Care (College of Nursing)
8. Health Care Management (College of Public Health)
8. Nurse Practitioner: Adult/Gerontology, Primary Care (College of Nursing)
9. Rehabilitation Counseling (College of Education)
11. Student Counseling and Personnel Services (College of Education)
16. Higher Education Administration (College of Education)
16. Painting/Drawing (College of Liberal Arts and Sciences)*
17. Doctor of Nursing Practice (College of Nursing)
17. College of Pharmacy*
19. College of Public Health
19. Family Medicine (Carver College of Medicine)
21. Nursing, Master’s (College of Nursing)
22. Internal Medicine (Carver College of Medicine)
22. Part-time MBA (Tippie College of Business)
23. Environmental/Environmental Health Engineering (College of Engineering)
25. Clinical Psychology (College of Liberal Arts and Sciences)*
26. Carver College of Medicine, Primary Care
26. Psychology (College of Liberal Arts and Sciences)*
27. College of Law
32. Library and Information Studies (Graduate College)*
33. Fine Arts (College of Liberal Arts and Sciences)*
36. Sociology (College of Liberal Arts and Sciences)*
37. Political Science (College of Liberal Arts and Sciences)*
37. Legal Writing (College of Law)
38. Carver College of Medicine—Research
40. Statistics (College of Liberal Arts and Sciences)*
40. International Law (College of Law)
41. Industrial/Manufacturing/Systems Engineering (College of Engineering)
42. Economics (Tippie College of Business)*
42. English (College of Liberal Arts and Sciences)*
46. Civil Engineering (College of Engineering)
46. Tax Law (College of Law)
50. College of Education
53. History (College of Liberal Arts and Sciences)*
54. Biology (College of Liberal Arts and Sciences)*
55. Trial Advocacy (College of Law)
55. Biostatistics (College of Public Health)*
56. Biomedical Engineering/Bioengineering (College of Engineering)
58. Mechanical Engineering (College of Engineering)
59. Social Work (College of Liberal Arts and Sciences)
60. Intellectual Property Law (College of Law)
61. Physics (College of Liberal Arts and Sciences)*
62. Mathematics (College of Liberal Arts and Sciences)*
64. Computer Science (College of Liberal Arts and Sciences)*
67. Chemistry (College of Liberal Arts and Sciences)*
67. Computer Engineering (College of Engineering)*
68. Health Care Law (College of Law)
69. Chemical Engineering (College of Engineering)
72. Electrical/Electronic Communications Engineering (College of Engineering)
73. College of Engineering
78. Earth Sciences (College of Liberal Arts and Sciences)*
98. Clinical Legal Training (College of Law)
103. Environmental Law (College of Law)

Rankings with an asterisk (*) were not ranked for the 2020 issue of America’s Best Graduate Schools, but represent the college or program’s most recent ranking.