The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill appears on more than 20 lists of schools, programs and specialty areas newly ranked by U.S. News and World Report magazine for its 2010 edition of “America’s Best Graduate Schools.”
Updated: Friday, April 24, 2009
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill appears on more than 20 lists of schools, programs and specialty areas newly ranked by U.S. News and World Report magazine for its 2010 edition of “America’s Best Graduate Schools.” Following is a summary of the new rankings, as well as specialty areas listed in the top 10:
School of Information and Library Science
Overall
- Tied for 1st
Specialty areas
- Digital librarianship, 1st
- Health librarianship, 2nd
- Archives and preservation, tied for 5th
- Service for children and youth, tied for 6th
- Information systems, 7th
School of Medicine
Overall
- Primary care, 2nd
- Research, tied for 20th
Specialty areas
- Family medicine, 2nd
- Rural medicine, 6th
- AIDS, 9th
School of Public Health
- Environmental/environmental health, tied for 9th
(Note: Although UNC has no engineering school, the department of environmental sciences and engineering is based in the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health and perennially appears on this list of top engineering programs.)
Kenan-Flagler Business School
Overall
- Tied for 20th (for master of business administration degree programs)
College of Arts and Sciences (doctoral programs in the social sciences and humanities)
English
Overall
- 16th
History
Overall
- Tied for 12th
Specialty area
- Women’s history, tied for 4th
- African-American history, tied for 7th
- Modern U.S. history, tied for 8th
- U.S. Colonial history, tied for 8th
- Latin-American history, tied for 9th
- European history, tied for 10th
Political Science
Overall
- Tied for 13th
Psychology
Overall
- Tied for 13th
Specialty area
- Developmental psychology, tied for 10th
Sociology
Overall
- Tied for 5th
Specialty area
- Sociology of population, 7th
- Social stratification, 10th
School of Education
Overall
- 23rd
School of Law
Overall
- Tied for 30th
New rankings will appear in the May issue of U.S. News and World Report magazine, which hits newsstands April 28, and in the “America’s Best Graduate Schools” guidebook. Details will be available at www.usnews.com
U.S. News first ranked graduate programs in 1987 and has done so annually since 1990. Business, education, engineering, law and medicine are ranked annually. Those rankings are based on expert opinion about program quality and statistical indicators that measure the quality of a school’s faculty, research and students, according to magazine officials. Other disciplines and specialties in the sciences, social sciences, humanities and other areas, including selected health specialties, are ranked periodically. Those rankings are based only on the ratings of academic experts.
Note: In past years, a number of UNC-Chapel Hill specialty areas have been ranked in the top 25. This year, advance information available from the magazine only goes through top 10 rankings. This advisory will be updated online on the News Services Web site, www.unc.edu/news/ as any new information becomes available.
UNC-Chapel Hill contact: Mike McFarland, (919) 962-8593, mike_mcfarland@unc.edu
U.S. News contact: pr@usnews.com