PROVIDENCE – A new national ranking of graduate schools has placed Brown University’s medical school at the No. 26 best in the United States in primary care and 36th in research.
That’s the best showing of local colleges and universities in U.S. News & World Report’s annual evaluation of graduate schools released on Tuesday morning.
The rankings examine U.S. schools in seven major disciplines – business, education, engineering, law, medicine and nursing and public affairs – based on numerous factors, including peer and recruiter assessments, test scores, acceptance rates and student-faculty ratios. In the case of business schools, graduates’ employment rates and starting salaries are also factored in.
In addition to its overall ranking, Brown’s Alpert Medical School appeared in the ranking for two medical specialties: No. 13 in family medicine, and No. 12 in obstetrics & gynecology.
Brown’s engineering graduate program also appeared prominently in U.S. News & World Report’s list, ranking No. 47 overall, while the university’s public affairs graduate program ranked No. 53.
Nationally, the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School ranked No. 1 for full-time Master of Business Administration programs, overtaking the previously top-ranked Harvard. The University of Chicago took the top spot for part-time MBA programs.
No local school made the ranking for the top 100 full-time MBA programs, but Providence College ranked No. 109 among part-time programs and Bryant University ranked No. 213, according to U.S. News & World Report.
Other rankings of local graduate schools or graduate specialties included:
- Education, the joint program between University of Rhode Island and Rhode Island College, No. 134
- Biomedical engineering, Brown University, No. 45
- Chemical engineering, Brown, No. 50
- Computer engineering, Brown, No. 40; URI, No. 82
- Electrical engineering, Brown, No. 45; URI, No. 107
- Material engineering, Brown, No. 37
- Doctor of Nursing program, URI, No. 112
- Public health, Brown, No. 17
- Physician assistant, Bryant University, No. 74
On a national level, Stanford University ranked No. 2 behind the Wharton School for best full-time MBA program, while Harvard, the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business and Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Sloan School of Management tied for third.
Among law schools, Yale University was tops in the ranking, followed by Stanford and then Harvard.
Harvard’s medical school was rated best for research, Johns Hopkins University ranked second, and Penn’s Perelman School of Medicine was tied for third with Stanford.
In the primary-care specialty, the medical school at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill ranked No. 1, followed by the schools at the University of Washington and the University of California San Francisco.
William Hamilton is a PBN staff writer. Email him at hamilton@PBN.com.
