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UT Austin Has 49 Top 10 Programs in U.S. News Ranking of Graduate Schools

March 20, 2018

AUSTIN, Texas — The University of Texas at Austin is one of the public universities with the most top-ranked schools and academic programs in the country, according to U.S. News & World Report's 2019 edition of "Best Graduate Schools," released this morning. The university has five programs ranked No. 1 and 49 schools and specialties ranked among the nation’s top 10.

Only two other public universities have as many top 10 graduate programs, and UT Austin has more top-ranked graduate programs than any other university in Texas.  

“In every college, school and department at The University of Texas at Austin, there is innovative research, teaching and multidisciplinary collaboration taking place by our faculty and students,” said President Gregory L. Fenves. “These national rankings reflect our focus on quality and our impact as a public flagship university.”

The university has top 10 programs in 12 of its colleges and schools including business, communications, geosciences, education, engineering, information, fine arts, natural sciences, pharmacy, public affairs, social work and liberal arts.

The five specialties ranked No. 1 in the nation are accounting in the McCombs School of Business; petroleum engineering in the Cockrell School of Engineering; geology in the Jackson School of Geosciences; and Latin American history and Sociology of Population, both in the College of Liberal Arts. (Three of these were updated this year. U.S. News & World Report does not update every discipline in every year.)

U.S. News & World Report’s graduate rankings, separate from the magazine's yearly ranking of undergraduate programs, are among the most widely regarded ratings in higher education. They are based on surveys of academic leaders and, for select programs, additional quantitative measures including placement test scores, student/faculty ratios, research expenditures and job placement success.

Also updated this year: the Cockrell School of Engineering ranks No. 10 nationally (No. 6 among public universities) and has eight specialties in the top 10. The Jackson School of Geosciences is No. 7 for Earth sciences (No. 3 among publics), with two specialties in the top 10. Computer science ranks No. 10 (No. 5 among publics), with four specialties in the top 10. The College of Education ranks No. 10 nationally (No. 4 among publics), with five specialties in the top 10. The Steve Hicks School of Social Work ranks No. 5 nationally (No. 3 among publics). And the LBJ School of Public Affairs ranks No. 9 (No. 6 among publics), with one specialty in the top 10.

The McCombs School of Business MBA program ranks No. 17 nationally (No. 5 among publics), with a part-time MBA program ranking at No. 7 nationally and three specialties in the top 10. The School of Law ranks No. 15 nationally (No. 4 among publics) and the School of Nursing ranks No. 23 (No. 13 among publics).

Several other graduate schools at UT Austin remain nationally ranked in the top 10, according to previous U.S. News & World Report data that was not revised this year. The School of Information is ranked No. 5 nationally (No. 4 among publics) for Library and Information Studies, with four top 10 specialty areas. The College of Pharmacy ranks No. 3.

In addition to nursing and pharmacy, the university scored top ratings in several other health disciplines when they were last updated in 2016, including speech-language pathology in the Moody College of Communication (No. 7) and clinical psychology (No. 8) in the College of Liberal Arts. The recently launched Dell Medical School will not enter the rankings until the accreditation process is complete.

The top rankings for graduate programs are consistent with other rankings for UT Austin, which has been named the eighth best value among public colleges (Kiplinger, 2017) and the 10th most productive university in the U.S. for scientific research (Nature Index, November 2017).

UT Austin graduate schools and programs that U.S. News & World Report ranked in the top 30 are listed below. These rankings are drawn from early figures released by U.S. News & World Report and could grow when fuller lists are published. Check news.utexas.edu for the most up-to-date lists:

UT Austin Graduate Programs Ranked in the Top 30

Professional Schools

  • Business – 17
    • Accounting – 1
    • Entrepreneurship – 9
    • Finance – 13
    • Information Systems – 4
    • International – 20
    • Management – 15
    • Marketing – 17
    • Production/Operations – 12
    • Supply Chain/Logistics – 18
    • Executive MBA – 22
    • Part-Time MBA – 7
  • Education - 10
    • Administration/Supervision – 3
    • Curriculum/Instruction – 8
    • Education Policy – 15
    • Educational Psychology – 7
    • Elementary Teacher Education – 12
    • Higher Education Administration - 15
    • Secondary Teacher Education – 10
    • Special Education – 7
  • Engineering – 10
    • Aerospace/Aeronautical/Astronautical – 8
    • Biomedical/Bioengineering – 18
    • Chemical – 6
    • Civil – 2
    • Computer – 7
    • Electrical/Electronic/Communications – 9
    • Environmental/Environmental Health – 6
    • Industrial/Manufacturing/Systems – 21
    • Materials – 21
    • Mechanical – 10
    • Nuclear – 15
    • Petroleum Engineering – 1
  • Health Disciplines (other than Nursing)
    • Audiology – 13*
    • Clinical Psychology – 8*
    • Pharmacy (UT Austin’s College of Pharmacy) – 3*
    • Social Work (UT Austin’s Steve Hicks School of Social Work) – 5
    • Speech-Language Pathology – 7*
  • Law – 15
    • Clinical Training – 28
    • International Law – 22
    • Tax Law – 11
  • Library and Information Studies Schools (UT Austin’s School of Information) – 5*
    • Archives and Preservation – 2*
    • Digital Librarianship – 5*
    • Information Systems – 10*
    • Law Librarianship – 2*
  • Nursing – 23
  • Public Affairs – 9
    • Nonprofit Management – 17
    • International/Global Policy – 7
    • Public Finance and Budgeting – 26
    • Public Management and Leadership – 18
    • Public Policy Analysis – 17

The Science

  • Biological Sciences – 27
    • Ecology/Evolutionary Biology – 6
  • Chemistry – 15
    • Analytical – 4
    • Organic – 16
    • Physical – 14
  • Computer Science – 10
    • Artificial Intelligence – 8
    • Programming Language – 8
    • Systems – 8
    • Theory – 7
  • Earth Sciences (UT Austin’s Jackson School of Geosciences) – 7
    • Geology – 1
    • Geophysics and Seismology – 7
  • Mathematics – 14
    • Analysis – 7
    • Applied Math – 9
    • Topology – 8
  • Physics – 17
    • Cosmology/Relativity/Gravity – 10

Social Sciences and Humanities

  • Economics – 27*
  • English – 20*
  • History – 16*
    • Latin American History – 1*
  • Political Science – 19*
  • Psychology – 8*
  • Sociology – 11*
    • Sociology of Population – 1*
    • Sex and Gender – 8*

Fine Arts – 27*

  • Sculpture – 7*

*Ranking not revised for 2019. Based on latest ranking available.

 

Public Universities with the Most Top 10 Graduate Program Rankings:

 
   

Public University

2019

UC Berkeley

111

Michigan

100

UT Austin

49

Washington

47

Wisconsin

46

UCLA

43

Illinois

35

UNC

27

Georgia Tech

20

Penn State

18

Funny, I don't see the Texas Agricultural and Mechanical University anywhere up in here.  Imagine that.
The grad rankings in USN&WR are actually pretty highly regarded and used, as say compared to the undergrad.

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In fact, they kick ass.

UT Austin Has 49 Top 10 Programs in U.S. News Ranking of Graduate Schools

March 20, 2018

AUSTIN, Texas — The University of Texas at Austin is one of the public universities with the most top-ranked schools and academic programs in the country, according to U.S. News & World Report's 2019 edition of "Best Graduate Schools," released this morning. The university has five programs ranked No. 1 and 49 schools and specialties ranked among the nation’s top 10.

Only two other public universities have as many top 10 graduate programs, and UT Austin has more top-ranked graduate programs than any other university in Texas.  

“In every college, school and department at The University of Texas at Austin, there is innovative research, teaching and multidisciplinary collaboration taking place by our faculty and students,” said President Gregory L. Fenves. “These national rankings reflect our focus on quality and our impact as a public flagship university.”

The university has top 10 programs in 12 of its colleges and schools including business, communications, geosciences, education, engineering, information, fine arts, natural sciences, pharmacy, public affairs, social work and liberal arts.

The five specialties ranked No. 1 in the nation are accounting in the McCombs School of Business; petroleum engineering in the Cockrell School of Engineering; geology in the Jackson School of Geosciences; and Latin American history and Sociology of Population, both in the College of Liberal Arts. (Three of these were updated this year. U.S. News & World Report does not update every discipline in every year.)

U.S. News & World Report’s graduate rankings, separate from the magazine's yearly ranking of undergraduate programs, are among the most widely regarded ratings in higher education. They are based on surveys of academic leaders and, for select programs, additional quantitative measures including placement test scores, student/faculty ratios, research expenditures and job placement success.

Also updated this year: the Cockrell School of Engineering ranks No. 10 nationally (No. 6 among public universities) and has eight specialties in the top 10. The Jackson School of Geosciences is No. 7 for Earth sciences (No. 3 among publics), with two specialties in the top 10. Computer science ranks No. 10 (No. 5 among publics), with four specialties in the top 10. The College of Education ranks No. 10 nationally (No. 4 among publics), with five specialties in the top 10. The Steve Hicks School of Social Work ranks No. 5 nationally (No. 3 among publics). And the LBJ School of Public Affairs ranks No. 9 (No. 6 among publics), with one specialty in the top 10.

The McCombs School of Business MBA program ranks No. 17 nationally (No. 5 among publics), with a part-time MBA program ranking at No. 7 nationally and three specialties in the top 10. The School of Law ranks No. 15 nationally (No. 4 among publics) and the School of Nursing ranks No. 23 (No. 13 among publics).

Several other graduate schools at UT Austin remain nationally ranked in the top 10, according to previous U.S. News & World Report data that was not revised this year. The School of Information is ranked No. 5 nationally (No. 4 among publics) for Library and Information Studies, with four top 10 specialty areas. The College of Pharmacy ranks No. 3.

In addition to nursing and pharmacy, the university scored top ratings in several other health disciplines when they were last updated in 2016, including speech-language pathology in the Moody College of Communication (No. 7) and clinical psychology (No. 8) in the College of Liberal Arts. The recently launched Dell Medical School will not enter the rankings until the accreditation process is complete.

The top rankings for graduate programs are consistent with other rankings for UT Austin, which has been named the eighth best value among public colleges (Kiplinger, 2017) and the 10th most productive university in the U.S. for scientific research (Nature Index, November 2017).

UT Austin graduate schools and programs that U.S. News & World Report ranked in the top 30 are listed below. These rankings are drawn from early figures released by U.S. News & World Report and could grow when fuller lists are published. Check news.utexas.edu for the most up-to-date lists:

UT Austin Graduate Programs Ranked in the Top 30

Professional Schools

  • Business – 17
    • Accounting – 1
    • Entrepreneurship – 9
    • Finance – 13
    • Information Systems – 4
    • International – 20
    • Management – 15
    • Marketing – 17
    • Production/Operations – 12
    • Supply Chain/Logistics – 18
    • Executive MBA – 22
    • Part-Time MBA – 7
  • Education - 10
    • Administration/Supervision – 3
    • Curriculum/Instruction – 8
    • Education Policy – 15
    • Educational Psychology – 7
    • Elementary Teacher Education – 12
    • Higher Education Administration - 15
    • Secondary Teacher Education – 10
    • Special Education – 7
  • Engineering – 10
    • Aerospace/Aeronautical/Astronautical – 8
    • Biomedical/Bioengineering – 18
    • Chemical – 6
    • Civil – 2
    • Computer – 7
    • Electrical/Electronic/Communications – 9
    • Environmental/Environmental Health – 6
    • Industrial/Manufacturing/Systems – 21
    • Materials – 21
    • Mechanical – 10
    • Nuclear – 15
    • Petroleum Engineering – 1
  • Health Disciplines (other than Nursing)
    • Audiology – 13*
    • Clinical Psychology – 8*
    • Pharmacy (UT Austin’s College of Pharmacy) – 3*
    • Social Work (UT Austin’s Steve Hicks School of Social Work) – 5
    • Speech-Language Pathology – 7*
  • Law – 15
    • Clinical Training – 28
    • International Law – 22
    • Tax Law – 11
  • Library and Information Studies Schools (UT Austin’s School of Information) – 5*
    • Archives and Preservation – 2*
    • Digital Librarianship – 5*
    • Information Systems – 10*
    • Law Librarianship – 2*
  • Nursing – 23
  • Public Affairs – 9
    • Nonprofit Management – 17
    • International/Global Policy – 7
    • Public Finance and Budgeting – 26
    • Public Management and Leadership – 18
    • Public Policy Analysis – 17

The Science

  • Biological Sciences – 27
    • Ecology/Evolutionary Biology – 6
  • Chemistry – 15
    • Analytical – 4
    • Organic – 16
    • Physical – 14
  • Computer Science – 10
    • Artificial Intelligence – 8
    • Programming Language – 8
    • Systems – 8
    • Theory – 7
  • Earth Sciences (UT Austin’s Jackson School of Geosciences) – 7
    • Geology – 1
    • Geophysics and Seismology – 7
  • Mathematics – 14
    • Analysis – 7
    • Applied Math – 9
    • Topology – 8
  • Physics – 17
    • Cosmology/Relativity/Gravity – 10

Social Sciences and Humanities

  • Economics – 27*
  • English – 20*
  • History – 16*
    • Latin American History – 1*
  • Political Science – 19*
  • Psychology – 8*
  • Sociology – 11*
    • Sociology of Population – 1*
    • Sex and Gender – 8*

Fine Arts – 27*

  • Sculpture – 7*

*Ranking not revised for 2019. Based on latest ranking available.

 

Public Universities with the Most Top 10 Graduate Program Rankings:

 
   

Public University

2019

UC Berkeley

111

Michigan

100

UT Austin

49

Washington

47

Wisconsin

46

UCLA

43

Illinois

35

UNC

27

Georgia Tech

20

Penn State

18

Funny, I don't see the Texas Agricultural and Mechanical University anywhere up in here.  Imagine that.
The grad rankings in USN&WR are actually pretty highly regarded and used, as say compared to the undergrad.

Meat Judging.  TAMU will always have Meat Judging.  You can't take that away from them.

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2 minutes ago, skipmcgee said:

Very nice.  Too bad the undergrad doesn't get the same ranking, because of the way that USNWR's algorithm favors small private schools.

On the one hand, I think most people know that in the research-oriented fields, at least, grad school quality trickles down.  On the other hand, though, many of the high-profile, graduate-research-oriented professors are average-to-poor teachers.

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Graduate school is the engine that keeps the University at the leading edge, through a virtuous cycle of leading edge research that attracts money that builds facilities that establishes programs/specializations that builds out the faculty pool that attracts top grad students, which makes a great University for undergrads to explore and achieve.

I loved my graduate studies in Aerospace, and I think (likely biased) the undergraduate program offers best theoretical/experimental grounding compared to other engineering disciplines, due its very nature (from aerodynamics and structural mechanics to orbital mechanics and control theory). But I am most conflicted when someone asks me for my opinion on studying Aerospace. Just the last couple of weeks, two kids that love Aero talked to me and I reluctantly had to tell them that they will love studying it, but will find very few career options, and will be frustrated watching even the few Aero-focused entities such as Boeing, NASA, etc. advertise and hire students from other disciplines over them; whereas in actuality, it should be the other way around since going through Aero really prepares the students to handle most other engineering tasks from first principles.

 

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10 hours ago, Machinator said:

Only school in the top 10 that surprised me was Penn State.

they have some built in advantages that helps them a lot

1, being "state related"....they give "discounts" to Penn resident students, but they charge a shit ton for tuition that UT and most other state universities in most other states would never get away with 

2. they are land grant, sea grant, space grant and sun grant so they have all of those and only a couple of other public schools in the USA are the land grant and the sole flagship in the state....Rutgers, tOSU, Wisconsin, Minnesota and perhaps some of the smaller east coast states and even in Florida, Georgia and Arizona where UF, UGA and UA are the main university AND the land grant other schools have been elevated to have similar research profiles like FSU, GT and ASU and in Louisiana well LSU is still LSU and in Louisiana so they don't count

and while Pitt is a major research university in PA they have the "state related" benefit as well

plus even being the sole major university in a state I am not sure any other is all 4 Land, Sea, Space and Sun grant

3. they run a massive system of feeder schools that are quasi under the same administration and that are said to be "the same"  where 60% of their students start their degree

this helps a ton with the undergrad because they can be more selective, but it also keeps the numbers way down especially for the massive resource hogging freshman class students.....imagine if UT Austin had even 25% much less over 2X that of their freshman class starting somewhere else and the available space on campus that would be there for more research and graduate focus

I am not sure how the pay at the 19 other campuses works for faculty or the tenure/research requirements, but I would imagine there are lower levels of pay and or no tenure offered or lower research requirements for faculty and probably a shit ton more adjunct and part time faculty and lecturers or grad students teaching freshman

while that helps their undergrad a great deal again imagine how much more attractive UT Austin would be to top faculty if they knew being in Austin at the main campus meant they were teaching a shit ton less freshman and even sophomore students no matter what their teaching load is

and imagine if UT Austin was able to staff their colleges, schools and departments with a much larger % of tenure and tenure track faculty because there were 19 other campuses that no one gives a shit about the rankings of any of the departments thus they can hire lower level and non-tenure track faculty....even in the graduate level rankings they are looking at research per faculty member, publications per member and overall faculty quality and UT simply cannot afford to have high paid research faculty teaching the shit ton of freshman that come to campus every year

and as another stated often those research faculty are not the greatest teachers especially for a class of 300 freshman they would rather not deal with at all and that they have 4 or 5 TAs to hand stuff off to

4. PA is an old ass state that had a lot of money and industry from way back in the day....I am not trying to say everything they do is "gaming a system"  but the system they have set up is a major benefit to them overall in terms of how they can direct students and how they can direct faculty and main campus "college park" resources

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12 hours ago, AeroHorn said:

Graduate school is the engine that keeps the University at the leading edge, through a virtuous cycle of leading edge research that attracts money that builds facilities that establishes programs/specializations that builds out the faculty pool that attracts top grad students, which makes a great University for undergrads to explore and achieve.

I loved my graduate studies in Aerospace, and I think (likely biased) the undergraduate program offers best theoretical/experimental grounding compared to other engineering disciplines, due its very nature (from aerodynamics and structural mechanics to orbital mechanics and control theory). But I am most conflicted when someone asks me for my opinion on studying Aerospace. Just the last couple of weeks, two kids that love Aero talked to me and I reluctantly had to tell them that they will love studying it, but will find very few career options, and will be frustrated watching even the few Aero-focused entities such as Boeing, NASA, etc. advertise and hire students from other disciplines over them; whereas in actuality, it should be the other way around since going through Aero really prepares the students to handle most other engineering tasks from first principles.

 

I’m aero too and I tell people don’t do it for the same reasons.  Loved the degree, hated the limited life choices with it. 

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