PROVIDENCE – Brown University, the University of Rhode Island and the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth are among multiple local colleges that were ranked among the top graduate schools in the country according to U.S. News & World Report’s 2023 rankings released Tuesday.
The publication said the rankings were designed for prospective students looking to further their education in various disciplines after college. Such programs that were highlighted were in business, education, engineering, law, medicine, nursing and science.
U.S. News surveyed more than 2,100 programs and more than 23,000 academic professionals to compile the 2023 rankings.
Brown appeared in 24 different rankings within U.S. News’ report, the most of all local higher education institutions. The Ivy League university’s highest ranking came in developmental economics, where it ranked No. 9. Brown was also ranked either at or tied at No. 14 in the medical school-primary care, geochemistry and geophysics categories.
The majority of UMass Dartmouth’s and Roger Williams University’s rankings within U.S. News’ report come in the law category. URI’s highest ranking came in the nursing category, being tied for No. 80.
The institutions that appeared in the report, and their rankings are:
Brown University
- Economics – No. 20
- Development Economics – No. 9
- Econometrics – No. 20
- Labor Economics – No. 16
- Macroeconomics – No. 17
- Computer Science – No. 26 (tie)
- Geology – No. 12 (tie)
- Geochemistry – No. 14 (tie)
- Geophysics – No. 14 (tie)
- Engineering – No. 53 (tie)
- Biomedical Engineering – No. 41 (tie)
- Chemical Engineering – No. 61 (tie)
- Computer Engineering – No. 42 (tie)
- Electrical Engineering – No. 47 (tie)
- Environmental Engineering – No. 50 (tie)
- Material Engineering – No. 44 (tie)
- Medical School-Primary Care – No. 14
- Medical Schools-Research – No. 35 (tie)
- Internal Medicine Research – No. 26
- Family Medicine Research – No. 16 (tie)
- Psychology – No. 23 (tie)
- Public Health – No. 16 (tie)
- Public Affairs – No. 62 (tie)
- Physics – No. 28 (tie)
Bryant University
- Full-time Business – No. 102-134
- Part-time MBA – No. 212-278
Johnson & Wales University
- Education – No. 207-274
Providence College
- Part-time MBA – No. 100 (tie)
Rhode Island College
- Public Affairs – No. 193 (tie)
- Social Work – No. 116 (tie)
Roger Williams University
- Full-time Law – No. 147-192
- Business-Corporate Law – No. 149
- Clinical Training Law – No. 86
- Constitutional Law – No. 159
- Contracts-Commercial Law – No. 161 (tie)
- Criminal Law – No. 142 (tie)
- Environmental Law – No. 122 (tie)
- Health Care Law – No. 135 (tie)
- International Law – No. 138 (tie)
- Intellectual Property Law – No. 177 (tie)
- Legal Writing – No. 115 (tie)
- Tax Law – No. 160 (tie)
- Trial Advocacy – No. 174 (tie)
- Public Affairs – No. 231 (tie)
University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
- Education – No. 175
- Engineering – No. 152-200
- Biomedical Engineering – No. 118 (tie)
- Electrical Engineering – No. 128 (tie)
- Geology – No. 156
- Full-time Law – No. 147-192
- Business-Corporate Law – No. 160 No. 160
- Clinical Training Law – No. 121
- Constitutional Law – No. 171
- Contracts-Commercial Law – No. 166 (tie)
- Criminal Law – No. 166 (tie)
- Environmental Law – No. 161 (tie)
- Health Care Law – No. 135 (tie)
- International Law – No. 174 (tie)
- Legal Writing – No. 62 (tie)
- Tax Law – No. 174 (tie)
- Trial Advocacy – No. 174 (tie)
- Public Affairs – No. 131 (tie)
University of Rhode Island
- Computer Science – No. 135 (tie)
- Economics – No. 120
- Education – No. 143
- Geology – No. 89 (tie)
- Engineering – No. 152-200
- Chemical Engineering – No. 113 (tie)
- Civil Engineering – No. 107 (tie)
- Electrical Engineering – No. 99 (tie)
- Industrial Engineering – No. 86 (tie)
- Part-time MBA No. 135
- Nursing – No. 80 (tie)
- Psychology – No. 11 (tie)
- Public Affairs – No. 193 (tie)
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