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Maryland Still Soars in U.S. News Rankings
The University of Maryland boasts two top ranked programs in the latest U.S. News and World Report ranking of graduate schools, due on newsstands on Monday, April 4, and the university now has 31 total programs ranked in the top 10 nationally by the magazine. The latest rankings include updated lists for social sciences and humanities.
The College of Education's Counseling and Personnel Services (CAPS) program maintained the top ranking that it has held for more than five years, while the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice in College of Behavioral and Social Sciences came out on top in the magazine's first-ever ranking of criminology programs.
Another 12 programs ranked in the top 10 in the new rankings, including five in the College of Education, which ranked 22nd overall nationally.
The A. James Clark School of Engineering ranked 17th overall, and the Robert H. Smith School of Business was 27th overall.
Top 10 programs in addition to Criminology and CAPS are:
This list includes only programs newly ranked this year. The university also has 17 top 10 programs in other disciplines that the magazine has not updated in several years. For a complete list of this year's new graduate school rankings, please click HERE. To see all of the university's rankings, visit http://www.newsdesk.umd.edu/facts/2005rank.cfm
With the newest rankings, Maryland now has 31 top 10 programs (up from 23 a year ago), 52 top 15 programs (up from 45), 67 top 20 programs (up from 60) and 75 top 25 programs (up from 70).
For more information, please visit the U.S. News and World Report Web site at:
http://www.usnews.com/usnews/edu/grad/rankings/rankindex_brief.php