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1st appeared
31 March 2000
UCSF Schools Make the US News Rank The UCSF School of Nursing master’s program is ranked second best in the nation, and the School of Medicine and the campus’ biological sciences graduate programs are rated seventh best in the annual graduate school rankings announced today by US News & World Report.
In addition to UCSF’s number two ranking among nursing schools, six nursing specialties also ranked among the top ten programs. Both family and pediatric nurse practitioner programs were ranked number one in the nation, and the adult nurse practitioner program came in third. Both gerontological and psychiatric/mental health nursing programs were ranked third, and community/public health nursing tied with University of Minnesota for seventh place. The magazine ranks the UCSF School of Medicine seventh among the nation’s 125 accredited medical schools; UCSF’s training program for primary care doctors ranks ninth, tied with Johns Hopkins University and Michigan State University’s College of Osteopathic Medicine. In the survey of graduate programs in biological sciences, UCSF ranks seventh, tied with Princeton and Yale. The magazine also ranks six specific doctoral programs in biological sciences. In those specialties, UCSF ranks second in pharmacology/toxicology; third in cell and developmental biology, and in genetics; fourth in neurosciences; fifth in biochemistry/molecular biology; and eighth in microbiology. UCSF is tied for third in genetics with Stanford and Johns Hopkins and tied for eighth in microbiology with the University of Michigan. The magazine also ranked eight medical specialty training programs, and UCSF made the top ten list in six of these, including a number one ranking in AIDS, and number two in women’s health, number three in both internal medicine and drug/alcohol abuse, and number six in both pediatrics and family medicine. UCSF’s master’s degree program in physical therapy, which is run jointly with San Francisco State University, was ranked fifteenth, in a tie with Virginia Commonwealth University. The schools are ranked by US News & World Report based on a survey of deans and senior faculty members, and on objective data such as the dollar amount of research grants, ratio of faculty to students, academic ranking of students, and percentage of applicants selected for admission. The top ten nursing master’s programs in the overall rankings are the following: (1) University of Washington, (2) UCSF and University of Pennsylvania (tie), (4) University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, (5) Johns Hopkins University and UNC-Chapel Hill (tie); (7) Case Western Reserve University, Oregon Health Sciences University (tie), (10) University of Colorado Health Sciences Center and University of Maryland-Baltimore (tie). The top ten medical schools in the overall rankings are the following: (1) Harvard University, (2) Johns Hopkins University, (3) University of Pennsylvania, (4) Washington University (St. Louis), (5) Columbia University, (6) Duke University, (7) UCSF, (8) Yale University, (9) University of Washington (Seattle), and (10) Stanford University. The top ten graduate studies programs in biological sciences are the following: (1)(tie) Harvard University and Stanford University, (3) Massachusetts Institute of Technology, (3) University of California, Berkeley, (5) California Institute of Technology, (6) Johns Hopkins University, (7) (tie) UCSF, Princeton University, and Yale University, (10)(tie) Rockefeller University, and Scripps Research Institute. The magazine this year did not rank dentistry or pharmacy programs. For complete listings, visit the US News website. Links: |
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rankings will be published in the April 10 issue of the magazine.