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appeared 22 March 1999
Biological Sciences Programs and Medical School
Make "US News" Rank
UCSF's graduate programs in biological sciences and the
School of Medicine received high grades in US News & World Report's annual survey of
graduate schools, which hit the newsstands today.
UCSF tied for seventh in the magazine's top 10 programs in biological sciences, and tied
for sixth in the overall rankings of medical schools. In its rankings of medical school
specialties, US News rated UCSF the top program in AIDS education and care.
In the biological sciences, UCSF tied with Princeton and Yale, ranking behind Harvard and
Stanford (tied for first), MIT, UC Berkeley, California Institute of Technology and Johns
Hopkins. UCSF ranked among the top in all six biological sciences "specialties"
rated by US News -- second in pharmacology/toxicology, third in cell and developmental
biology, third in genetics, fourth in neurosciences, fifth in biochemistry/molecular
biology, and eighth in microbiology.
The School of Medicine, which was ranked seventh overall in 1998 by US News, this year
tied for sixth with Duke University. The magazine ranked Harvard as the top medical
school, followed by Johns Hopkins, University of Pennsylvania, Washington University in
St. Louis, and Yale.
The School of Medicine tied for eighth in US News' rankings of top medical schools for
primary care (the University of Washington was the top school in that category) and ranked
high in six of the eight specialties rated by the magazine -- first in AIDS, second in
women's health, second in drug/alcohol abuse, third in internal medicine, fourth in
pediatrics, and seventh in family medicine.
US News this year did not rank other health professional programs. In 1998, the School of
Nursing ranked second, and in 1997, the School of Pharmacy ranked first in their category.
Links:
US News
Rankings of Top Schools of Medicine:
US News Rankings of
Top Biological Sciences (PhD) Programs:
US News Graduate School
Rankings
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